Dream Pursuit

We recently made a trip to Stone Creek Hunting in Edgar Springs, Missouri for a Dream Hunt for a young man by the name of Taylor Lohmann. Upon arrival, we made sure that Taylor’s rifle was shooting correctly and then headed out to the blind for the afternoon. Due to the high winds, the deer were bedded and we only saw 3 doe right at last light.

The next morning the wind was still a factor and at around 9, those same 3 doe entered the field again. After watching them feed for about 20 minutes, Taylor said, “There’s two bucks.” Both were 8 pointers but one was a mature buck that was a little wider and he proved to be the dominant buck after watching the two spar off and on for the better part of 20 minutes. After Taylor had made the choice to take the mature buck, we had him practice putting the crosshairs on his shoulder to help steady his nerves. He was then given the green light once the buck had turned broadside and the shot rang out and the buck took a dirt nap!

We want to personally thank those that helped to make this a great hunt. We want to thank StormKloth II for the donation of the camouflage, Dennis Outdoors in Poplar Bluff Missouri for their donation of a rifle, scope, ammunition and gun case. We also want to thank Justin Hoffman at Stone Creek Hunting in Edgar Springs Missouri for hosting this hunt and their donation of the meals, lodging and processing.

On the way home, we stopped at the taxidermist to drop off Taylor’s deer to be mounted for him. We also want to personally thank Bobby Shipman at Full Draw Taxidermy in Dexter Missouri for his donation of the taxidermy work!

It takes alot of cooperation from many individuals to make these hunts a success. From Perry County Sportsman’s Club, who did the fundraiser, to the donation of camouflage, securing the location for the hunt, donation of the rifle and ammunition and taxidermy services once it was successful. Dream Pursuit is in need of monetary (cash) donations, inkind donations (goods and services), outfitters/guides and taxidermists to make these adventures become a reality. Should you wish to help us raise money, donate a hunting or fishing trip or contribute through taxidermy services, please contact us by the number list in the “contact us” tab of our website. Thanks for reading and God Bless!

Rick Davis
President/Founder
Dream Pursuit, Inc.

We are packing our bags and all the video equipment and will be headed to Edgar Springs Missouri for a Dream Hunt. Special thanks to Justin Hoffman at Stone Creek Hunting Ranch for helping us out with this hunt. This 13 yr old young man has been diagnosed with Auto Immune Disease and Hypoparathyrodism. We will be going after a whitetail buck for the first couple of days and might change gears to an axis deer before we wrap up on Sunday. Looking forward to a great time with him and his family and will hopefully be posting some new pictures of a successful harvest……….stay tuned!!

I would like to personally thank Kevin and Laura Hayden, Perry County Sportsman Club, Perry County Sportsman Club Womens Auxiliary and everyone else that helped to put the Dream Pursuit fundraiser together! What a great bunch of people that worked really hard to make this event a “huge” success. We more than doubled the original figure that we thought would be raised and the event was well attended for it’s first year!!

Perry County Sportsman Club is an awsome organization with a bunch of great people and generous hearts. We can’t say thanks enough!!

I would also like to thank Jimmy (Shaggy) Cantrell and Darrin Johnson for putting the Twin Bridges event together! These two worked really hard to put this together. It was a great time for everyone and we had a blast in spite of the rain! They are still putting the final numbers together to see how things will come together here. I never saw Shaggy in so many places at the same time…..ha!

Rick Davis
President?Founder
Dream Pursuit, Inc.

Since we have rapidly went through this year and have already made it to September, we have a couple of fundraisers that are upon us. One this month with the King of the River BBQ contest, where a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Dream Pursuit and another in early October with Perry County Sportsman Club, in which all proceeds will be donated to our organization!

If you are from our area, we ask that you come out an be a part of these events with us. All the information for these events are listed on our calendar by going to the “about us” tab and then to ‘”events”.

If you would like to host a fundraising event for Dream Pursuit, please feel free to contact us by emailing: rick@dreampursuit.org, or by calling 573-421-5580. We would be more than happy to work with you for a fundraising event in your area. Dream Pursuit is a public charity and we are solely dependent upon contributions from the general public for us to continue our work. We have also been designated a 501 (c)(3) by the Internal Revenue Service, which means that all contributions are fully tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

Thanks for reading and we look forward to hearing from you!

Missouri dove season just came in on September 01 and according to everyone that I have talked to, it’s taking them a little longer to get their limit. From what I could tell by driving around some of my old hunting spots, there seems to be a lot of birds but due to the amount of rain that we had in our area, most crops were planted late and nothing is being harvested. Should prove to be an interesting season and I will be waiting to see how the numbers rank according to the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Has anyone else’s season started yet? If so how is it going in your area??

When we hit 1,000 “likes” on our Facebook fan page, we will be giving something away for FREE! Be sure and tell all your FB friends to come to our website blog to read about the program and then go to our Facebook page and hit the “like” button. When we reach 1,000 likes, we will put everyones name into the bucket for one lucky person to win a FREE pair of Bushnell XLT-10X42-Bone Collector Series Binoculars! This includes our current “likes” and the additional new “likes” that bring us to 1,000. In other words, ALL 1,000 are elligible!

So get everyone on the ball because the quicker we hit the 1,000 mark, the quicker we give away the binos! This is just our way of saying thanks for getting behind us here at Dream Pursuit as we continue to “help those that need our help!” Now lets see how quick we can hit the magic number!!

Rick Davis
President/Founder
Dream Pursuit, Inc.

I just wanted to welcome everyone to our new website and blog! We will start making posts very soon. Be sure and tell everyone about our new site and blog, that will help us to have more people to participate in our blogs! Thanks everyone for stopping by and will post again soon!