For six years Craig Winterhalt, one of the instructors for the Wilkie Hunter Safety Program has been putting on a turkey shoot at the Wilkie Wildlife Federation building Oct. 14.
Winterhalt along with two other instructors, Alex Tilbert and Gary Neigum, participate and ensure the shooting range is a controlled environment and everything goes off safely.
The Wilkie Delta Co-op is one of the biggest supporters to this event, and the wives handle the kitchen, making burgers, hot dogs and serving refreshments to all who come through the doors.
As always there was a table of information of pamphlets there and right beside a children鈥檚 shooting gallery where participants could shoot a plastic dart gun at an inflatable deer or bear. Everyone who did earned a prize. There was a colouring contest to win a children鈥檚 patio set that Winterhalt made.
"We had over 140 people out to the shoot. It was a little slower this time, but way more fun,鈥� Winterhalt said.
鈥淚 love seeing new shooters get excited over the shooting and hunting sport. It is a lot of work, but with the unbelievable group I have helping me clean, set up, run, take down and clean again, our Wilkie Hunter Safety Turkey Shoot Fundraiser is worth the work.鈥�
Money raised goes to the hunter safety program. Funds buy supplies for skeet shooting and target shooting by students as well as keeping up with training aids.
