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| Marine Band plays during lunch on Monday |
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| Heath McClung proudly wears blood on his cheek |
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| Daryl Wallace and Ryan Wheeler had some luck! |
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| The hunting party at Oak Lawn Plantation |
The 7th annual
Lowcountry Chapter of Safari Club International (SCI) Wounded Warrior Hunt took place on October 24 and 25 based out of
Nemours Wildlife Foundation. Hunt coordinator Mark Peterson works with Nemours director Ernie Wiggers to line up private landowners each year that allow access to their plantations of the ACE Basin. General Reynolds from Parris Island Marine Base oversees the Marine color guard, Marine band, and cadre of Wounded Warriors that report to hunt on Monday night and Tuesday morning. It can not be over-stated how glad the members of the local SCI chapter are when they can provide hunting opportunities for our brave veterans. Heath McClung from St. Louis, Missouri was injured by an Improvised Explosive Device in Afghanistan and is recovering in Augusta, Georgia at the Active Duty Rehab Unit. McClung scored his first ever deer, a fine 8-point buck while hunting at Buckfield Plantation - and this result was multiplied by all the Wounded Warriors that found hunting success. McClung was also lucky in that Gus Congemi with
Dead Down Wind television had made the trip from New York in order to video his hunt - and the hunt is recorded now on HD and will be aired in the future on the Sportsman Channel. "My daughter is in the military and we were gald to be invited to this quality event," said Congemi. Any of the wounded Warriors that requested a mount of their deer had it granted to them at NO Cost, and Pernell's Taxidermy was on hand to supervise the skinning of the capes. Bill Snow of SCI issued venison rations to each Wounded Warrior that came to the hunt, and venison generated during the hunt goes to help feed the hungry. Thirty wounded Warriors attended the hunt and all of them enjoyed the fellowship of being in the Lowcountry Outdoors.
To view my blog entry from the 2010 SCI Wounded Warrior hunt click
here.
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