Michigan Gun Owners Partners with Michigan DNR

[Tallbear]

Michigan Gun Owners Partners with Michigan DNR


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 23, 2011, 2011

Contact: Mike Thiede
mthiede@migunowners.org
1-888-ASK-MGO1

Michigan Gun Owners partners with Michigan DNR

The Michigan Pure Hunt (http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10363_53632---,00.html) has become even better for all applying for this special hunt in 2011. Michigan Gun Owners has upped the bounty by adding a rifle valued at $900.00 to each of the three lucky hunters.

Michigan Gun Owners, a statewide non-profit organization, has watched the Pure Michigan Hunt program become more popular each year and saw an opportunity to be part of the great experience by donating a rifle to the winning applicants. And in doing so, MGO could be part of the hunter’s success in the field.

MGO is glad to be part of the Pure Michigan Hunt because it not only promotes safe gun ownership, but also shows how state associations can work together for the betterment of our natural resources. “To be able to see the smiles on the faces of the hunt winners is something I’m looking forward to” Said Mike Thiede, Michigan Gun Owners Public Relations Director. “I hope they each will get their trophies and send us pictures to share with our 18,000 members.”


Michigan Gun Owners was established in 2002 with the mission to educate the public and encourage grass roots activism on a state-wide level through various outreach programs and a popular community forum on the Internet. Michigan Gun Owners has become Michigan’s fastest growing, grass roots gun rights advocacy organization.

To learn more about Michigan Gun Owners, please visit http://www.migunowners.org (http://www.migunowners.org/forum/../) .

[ejk75]

Great job on getting this done!:bounce2:

[Tallbear]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 10, 2012

Contact: Katie Keen, 517-373-1263, or Ed Golder, 517-335-3014


Three Chosen as 2012 Pure Michigan Hunt Winners

Three southeastern Michigan hunters were selected at random from a pool of 10,864 applicants to participate in the 2012 Pure Michigan Hunt, the Department of Natural Resources announced today.

The Pure Michigan Hunt allows sportsmen to participate in every limited-access hunt available in a given year. Hunters may hunt elk, bear, antlerless deer, and spring and fall turkeys as well as choose the first hunting zone on a managed waterfowl area during any open hunting season in the state.

Brad L. Belcher of Howell, Dan A. Beaudoin of Waterford and Mark Schulz of southeast Michigan were the lucky winners. And though both Belcher and Schulz are lifelong hunters who have unsuccessfully applied for elk licenses for many years, Beaudoin called himself a “novice” hunter.

“I about flipped out,” the 38-year-old wholesale bait dealer said, when he heard he’d been chosen. “I was ecstatic.”
Beaudoin, who bought more than 20 applications for the Pure Michigan Hunt, said he never even considered winning the drawing.

“To tell you the truth, I was looking at it as a donation to the DNR,” he said. “It was me doing my part.”

Belcher is a 54-year-old police officer. Schulz is a 59-year-old retired automotive worker.

Hunters may purchase as many Pure Michigan Hunt applications as they like for $4 apiece. The 2012 lottery drew a total of 29,408 applications. Dollars generated from this opportunity fund wildlife habitat restoration and improvements, here in Michigan.

In addition to the hunting opportunities, winners receive a package of gifts donated by Michigan companies and organizations including:

An Ameristep Brickhouse ground blind; a Darton Archery Scorpion Crossbow package; membership, knife and duck decoy from the Michigan chapter of Ducks Unlimited; a 30.06 rifle from Michigan Gun Owners; youth and adult magazine subscriptions from Michigan United Conservation Clubs; a box call and hunting vest from the Michigan chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation; a nine-square archery target system from MOR Archery; a Soroc sports sled from Northwoods Wholesale Outlet; and a Quality Deer Management starter package from the Michigan chapter of QDMA.

Applications for the 2013 Pure Michigan Hunt go on sale online at all retail license agents March 1.

“Wildlife management in Michigan is paid for by its users,” said DNR Wildlife Division Chief Russ Mason. “This is a great way you can help fund conservation.”

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is committed to the conservation, protection, management, use and enjoyment of the state's natural and cultural resources for current and future generations. For more information, go to www.michigan.gov/dnr (http://www.michigan.gov/dnr).

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Photos of the winners are available at http://www.michigandnr.com/ftp/OutReach.

[Cackler]

AWESOME!

[makman1]

Excellent!:clap: