Jim Shockey's Hunting Adventures gets numerous requests for charity hunts each year. Jim decided several years ago to focus our efforts on honoring Canadian and USA military personnel who help protect our great countries. We do this by doing what we do best. We take our veterans on a guided all expense paid hunt to one of Jim’s outfitting areas. Beginning this program in 2009, Jim Shockey’s Hunting Adventures has hosted 6 veterans on trips and we are taking 6 more deserving soldiers in 2011. Ideally we like to find candidates who have served together to hunt in pairs as it adds considerable enjoyment to the experience to be able to share it with a “hunting buddy”. We make sure at least one of the pair has suffered duty injuries and that both have been deployed in active combat overseas.

Jim Shockey's Hunting Adventures pays all expenses for the veterans including hunt costs, transportation, tips, taxidermy, etc. Once the candidate has been confirmed through our vetting process, our motto is “you will never have to take your wallet out of your pocket – just enjoy this trip of a lifetime”. Funding for this program is primarily generated through the Desert Shoot Out golf outing which Jim hosts every February in Arizona.

For more information on this program contact Gary Goodenow, Charity Hunts Coordinator. Gary may be reached at (248) 894-6474 or e-mail at glgoodenow@comcast.net

RECENT TRIPS

May  2011 Bear - Click here for info and photos from our spring 2011 bear hunts

November  2011 Deer - Click here for info and photos from our fall 2011 deer hunts

RECENT HUNTERS

May 22, 2011 Bear

Warrant Officer Ramsey Bellisle
Ramsey is 34 years old and still in the BC Company of the North Saskatchewan Regiment. He has 17 years of service in the Canadian Army and has served overseas tours in Bosnia and Afghanistan. Ramsey lives in Prince Albert, SK, Canada.

Corporal Dan Scott
Dan is 26 years old and still in the 15th Field Artillery Regiment of the Canadian Army. Dan has served two tours to Afghanistan and was injured when a claymore mine detonated beside him in February 2010. Dan currently lives in Surrey, BC, Canada.

May 29, 2011 (Tracy Noll Hunt) Bear

Thanks to the generosity of one of our clients and friends we are going to be able to take two additional bear hunters to Saskatchewan in 2011. Tracy Noll who is an ex-Marine from the Vietnam era contacted us and said he would like to pay the hunt fee and share his bear hunt with two recently injured marines from this era. With some assistance from Combat Marines Outdoors we have located and selected the following two individuals to hunt with Tracy the week of May 29, 2011.

Sgt Brent Larimer
Brent is a 23 year old US marine who is currently undergoing medical care at the Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas. Brent has served in Iraq and Afghanistan where he suffered severe burns from an IED. Brent is from Florida and currently lives in San Antonio, Texas with his wife and two sons..

SSgt Johnathan Rose
Johnathan is a 27 year old US Marine also currently stationed at the Brooke Army Medical Center. He has also served a tour of duty in Iraq and then was involved in an IED attack in Afghanistan in May of 2010. Johnathon is from Hubert, North Carolina.

November 05, 2011 Whitetail Hunt

SSgt Derek VanBuren
Derek is a 31 year old currently active in the US Army National Guard. Derek was deployed to Afghanistan in November of 2008 and was involved in a Rocket Propelled Grenade attack on July 19, 2010. Derek is from Michigan's Upper Peninsula and lives with his wife and two children in Negaunee, MI.

Cpl Jon French
Jon is a 37 year old Civil Engineer who is in the US Army National Guard. Jon was deployed to Afghanistan in January 2009 and was injured in the same RPG attack as SSgt VanBuren on July 19, 2009. Jon currently lives with his wife in Chassel, MI (Michigan's Upper Peninsula)

Brigadier General Jim Anderson
Derek and Jon are going to be accompanied on the hunt by General Jim Anderson, US Army Retired. Jim was instrumental in locating these two veterans and booked himself to hunt with them.