Matt Ward with his 196 5/8 inch Kansas giant

After going in and having a quick bite to eat, we returned to our stands that afternoon around 1:30. The weather was gorgeous; 45 degrees and sunny. My Scent-Lok Full Season suit was perfect not only for controlling my scent, but also for keeping me comfortable in the stand all week. The lows were in the low 20’s and the highs were mid 40’s, so it was nice to be able to deal with the different temperatures all with one suit. I also utilized the Scent-Lok Base Slayers since they not only are very comfortable, but added an additional layer of odor protection. The Scent-Lok Savannah gloves were also a must since it was warm enough that I didn’t need any insulated gloves, but could still control my scent with the light weight Savannah gloves.

I was finally settled in and ready for my afternoon in the stand when at 2:30pm, I caught movement to my left. I grabbed my binoculars to see what was heading my way and I could see what I thought was an extra long brow tine sticking up among the other many points and I instantly knew it was a shooter. The wind was swirling that day, but he was actually coming at me upwind. He started to veer off to go to a creek bed and the path that he was going to take would not present me with a shot. I grabbed my grunt call and grunted twice, loudly away from him. He instantly turned and circled back around my way. As he circled, he began to come around to my downwind side. He was on the opposite side of a cedar thicket, so I grunted again very softly since he was only about 40 yards away. At this point, I knew he was a giant, but I had no idea what was going to come crashing through the cedar thicket in response to the grunt. As he cleared through the cedar thicket, all I could see was horns! I let him take a few steps to clear out and I bleated him to a stop. He was standing broadside at 30 yards so I let my arrow fly. My shot was a bit back and after replaying the previous few moments, I realized that he was quartering towards me more than I realized. I watched him for several minutes as he slowly walked away. He was hurt bad, but when he didn’t fall within eyesight, I started to worry. I got down at 4:30pm to go check my arrow. It was a clean pass through and after inspecting the shaft and fletching, I knew the hit was good. I met my dad that evening back at our rendezvous point and told him what had happened. After telling him all of the details, we both decided that it would be better to let him lay overnight and make sure he had time to expire.

It was a wise decision. We began looking for him the next morning and found him about 150 yards from where I shot him. The woods erupted in celebration when we got our hands on this Kansas giant!
There is no doubt in my mind that if I had not been wearing my Scent-Lok suit on that hunt the big bruiser would have winded me and headed a new direction. The wind was swirling around from the north and west but he never knew I was there. Several other bucks and a few does had been all around my stand the morning before and were oblivious to my presence.

Scent-Lok has been an important piece in my bowhunting arsenal. In fact, it may be the most important thing that I take into the field with me. I have worn and will continue to wear Scent-Lok products for years. The quality of the materials and its effectiveness has never let me down. This isn’t the first and it won’t be the last deer that I kill wearing Scent-Lok hunting apparel.
Thanks for making an incredibly effective product!

Matt Ward
196 5/8 inch Kansas Whitetail

“Hunting is just something I was born with,” Phelps said. “I shot my first deer, a four point, when I was 14. I remember the feeling and the whole hunt like it was yesterday, I have been hooked ever since.”

Phelps said that he would never have had the success he has had without the use of Scent-Lok products. According to him, his Scent-Lok gear is the most important equipment in his arsenal.

“I have always believed fully in the capability of Scent-Lok products. Having fooled quite a few nice bucks as well as countless does and yearlings that traveled down wind of me and not so much as lift their head in my direction before going on about their business, the stuff works.”

According to Phelps, Scent-Lok technology has always worked for him well, but he really became an advocate after the hunt that took place last year that resulted in him harvesting the biggest buck of his life.

“I went through my usual routine of dressing away from my vehicle and spraying down my boots and equipment. As I started the walk to my stand I caught movement out of the corner of my eye. I froze and turned my head to see a young buck and a doe stand up and begin to browse. They were 30 yards away, directly down wind.

I slowly and quietly dropped down to a knee to wait for them to move off. Then I heard a deep grunt. I knew there was no way the young buck made the sound. I quickly fastened my release and nocked an arrow. I rose to a crouch and just as I did a huge buck rose and took a few slow steps toward the hot doe. The weeds were too tall for me to shoot from my knees, so I slowly rose to a standing position. All three deer were still just 30 yards away and straight down wind!

As the buck followed the doe into an opening I drew my bow and settled the pin. The smaller buck saw me draw and took a few quick steps and stared at me. The big buck slowly turned his head in my direction, but it was too late. My fletching disappeared into the buck’s vitals. He wheeled and ran over a hill out of sight.

After getting over the shock of shooting one of the biggest bucks I had ever seen in my life, I couldn’t get over the fact that none of the three deer had winded me when I was just 30 yards away on the ground! At that point I believed more in Scent-Lok technology than I ever had before.

By the look of these photos it’s obvious that with attention to detail and making sure you and your equipment are as scent free as possible, that Scent-Lok Odor Eliminating Technology really does work. To have as many bucks on the wall as Phelps has in a state where the hunting pressure is the more intense than just about anywhere else in the country, it’s easy to see that Phelps can’t afford to make mistakes with his scent. That’s why he as well as hunters all over the country choose to wear Scent-Lok.

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Alex Gyllstrom
Scent-Lok Technologies

From left to right: Pete Odland, Mike Neely, Ted Nugent

We arrived in Thunder Bay on September 18 so we could get our licenses and head out to camp and be ready to hunt the next morning for the archery opener. Garth Matyasovszky of WFO outfitters had our camp all set up with a very sturdy tent for Ted, Mike and me to stay in during the hunt. It had a nice wood burning stove with plenty of wood to keep us warm during the nights. We all shot our bows to make sure everything was still in order from our travels, ate a hearty supper, and after making a plan with our guides we turned in and got a good night sleep.

The Ontario bush in that area was absolutely breathtaking. My guide Matt Yoller was on a mission to call in a moose for me. That first morning was very exciting for me. We set up on a beaver dam and Matt began his calling sequence. It was very interesting to see and hear how it was done. He was doing a great job and although there were moose tracks everywhere, we didn’t have any luck that first morning. The weather was unseasonably warm. In fact, it hit 89 degrees that first day, breaking a 90 year record. Not what we wanted for moose hunting, they like to hunker down and not move when it gets that hot.

Pete with a grouse he shot with his bow

While I was preparing for this hunt, one of my first thoughts was if moose would be able to smell as well as whitetail deer. Matt assured me that moose have that big “snorkel” and it’s hard to fool. I was thankful I brought two full sets of Scent-Lok gear with me. I also noticed both Ted and Mike had Scent-Lok suites. We were all very careful about keeping them in a scent free container when not in use. The Scent-Lok gear was critical because Matt would usually place me where he felt the moose would try to get upwind from where he was calling, usually a little ways off from me. It was obvious to us that the boys from WFO were doing their best to get us on moose, even with the weather conditions as bad as they were.

Finally, on the fifth day we caught a break. The weather was slightly cooler and we were on a river in the boat. Matt called and immediately we heard a bull moose a few hundred yards off answer back, “Ugh, Ugh, Ugh!” Matt quickly moved us into position with the electric trolling motor. We stashed the boat and set up in some wild rice. I had been practicing out to 70 yards and was comfortable to that distance if absolutely necessary with my archery tackle.

The excitement really started to build at that point. The bull started coming toward us crashing brush and snapping sticks around 45 yards away, all the while announcing his presence with his “Ugh, Ugh, Ugh! He sounded like a freight train as he crashed through the brush. Matt continued to coax him with more soft calls and the bull continued to move toward us. The anticipation was killing me and my heart was in my throat!

I was waiting with arrow knocked. Finally he sounded like he stopped about 10 yards in the bush just off the river. I was praying he would come the last few yards and not bust us. The excitement was unbearable! There was a narrow area along there river for him to clear the brush on the river bank and I sat waiting for him to step out. He was too close to call so Matt slowly reached over the back side of the boat and just splashed a little. That was all the bull needed and out he stepped. He stood facing us and stared right at us sitting there in the boat, with no cover, for what seemed like an eternity! I thanked God that I was wearing my Scent-Lok suit because at that point any hint of human scent and it would have been all over for us! We didn’t move a hair and since he couldn’t smell us, he finally looked down river and put his head down to sniff the ground. When he did this Matt whispered, “Draw your bow” I drew and as I did the bull lifted his head and looked back up river. Then he stepped a bit that direction and presented us with a quartering to shot. Matt gave me the green light. I released my arrow and watched as the arrow entered just behind the shoulder. The bull bolted off into the bush and stopped about 50 yards in.

Pete with his moose

The hunt was nonstop fun! The antlers of my moose are gorgeous and will be a beautiful addition
to my collection. It was my first moose hunt, but I’m
guessing it won’t be my last.

I have found that these few weeks in the middle of October, at least for the Midwest, is a great time to really observe general deer movement and fill some doe tags. From past experience, I have found it is more beneficial to basically stop hunting bucks during this time so as not to pressure them and watch the doe travel keying in on main doe bedding areas. This better prepares me for the rut, so I know what doe travel routes are best to set up on to intercept a love sick buck. I like to think of it as a second scouting period other than the summer months.

This is a good time to utilize what I like to call observatory stands. These are stands on the edge of field edges or stands that can watch travel routes from a distance. I like to hunt these stands at this point in the season because it allows me to watch a high quantity of deer from a safe distance so I won’t spook deer out of my best spots during this lull period. By hunting observatory stands it allows me to formulate a game plan that is determined by how the deer’s patterns have changed as they transition from the early season to the rut. My first priority is to watch the does closely to pattern their movements, sometimes you will get lucky and spot a good buck nosing doe trails and you can move in and set up on him, but normally I have found during this lull time the buck movement is marginal at best.

So if you are experiencing that famous October lull, maybe rethink your game plan. Lay off the bucks for a while and watch the does and the food. This will prepare you as best as possible for that special time when those first couple does go into estrous. I know it sounds a little odd to not hunt bucks, but if you give this a try I think you will be please with your results. Remember, hunt smarter not harder and you never know, Mr. Big might just walk by you stand anyway.

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Alex Gyllstrom
Scent-Lok Technologies

Hunting the hot summer months for trophy blacktail deer during the archery season in California can present many challenges, the most important of which is scent control. Temperatures during this time can be brutally hot and unforgiving.  Hunting these blacktail deer in a tree stand or on the ground can be challenging enough, to make my hunt more successful, I rely heavily on my Scent-Lok Savanna garments.  The Scent-Lok Savanna is a scent wicking outer layer for hunting in warm to hot days. Its breathability keeps my body heat down and keeps my odor concealed.

In 2008, I got trail camera pictures of a true giant blacktail buck on a ranch I hunt. I hunted him for eight long days in the stand, during which I passed on several other trophy bucks in the 140’s.  During those days, I had deer within twenty yards of me and the wind swirled a few times. The deer would look up momentarily and then would go back to feeding. Whether they smelled a molecule of me or something else in the woods, it appeared that they did not detect danger and that my Scent-Lok was working. On the eighth day, the giant buck finally showed himself and came into my stand location from down wind with another buck. That bruiser never knew I was there!  My arrow smoked him at 20 yards.

He officially scored 167 5/8 SCI (Safari Club International) as a non-typical and netted 159 0/8 typical, making him the number three California inland Columbian Blacktail non-typical bow kill in the California Records of Big Game (which uses the SCI scoring system). His outside width was nearly 28 inches with an inside spread of 24 inches. He had extreme mass and long bladed eye-guards. I was fortunate to have my friend Aaron Brooks get it all on film.

If it wasn’t for my Scent-Lok clothing, I believe I would not have had the close encounters with all those deer, especially my giant buck.  Another thing that helped out with the scent control was putting my Scent-Lok garments in an air-tight container as soon as I got out of the field, until the next day just before I got back into the field. Scent-Lok clothing is unbelievable and truly made me seem non-existent in the woods. I will not enter the field with out my Scent-Lok Savanna on.

The technique I use is what I like to call “aiming for the opposite leg”. Now I realize many of you probably just re-read that and went, “huh?” Let me explain. When you watch a deer walking, standing, or browsing you should concentrate behind the front shoulder, this is no secret. But next time you have an encounter don’t focus quite so hard on that one spot just yet. If you look at that deer’s opposite front leg, it will almost always be directly inline with the deer’s vitals.

The goal here is to get lined up with the opposite leg and then go ahead pick your spot on the side facing you and concentrate. This works for broadside as well as quartering away shots if the deer is stopped while walking where the opposite front leg is slightly offset than the front leg closest to you. It will show you exactly where to aim so you don’t have to estimate how far back you need to shoot. It takes the guessing out of the equation. The pictures below demonstrate how the opposite front leg is nearly always inline with a deer’s vitals and provides a good aiming reference.

A good example of a deer browsing broadside
where the opposite leg indicates a perfect place
to aim.
photo courtesy of www.travel.webshots.com

Hopefully “aiming for the opposite leg” will help you this fall to quickly pick a spot and execute the shot with confidence. It is a very helpful thought process that is fast and easy, so you don’t have a hundred different thoughts running through your head about where to aim at the moment of truth.

Alex Gyllstrom
Scent-Lok Technologies

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I’ve been chasing big bears around North America for most of my life and have had the very good fortune to put my tag on a few big bruisers over the years. The mission on this northern adventure was to harvest a true monster bear for my dad. He had been failing for the last few months and I was going to cancel this trip. But he knew how excited I was about hunting this new spot, and told me to go and kill him a big bear. This area hadn’t been bear hunted for the last several years, and they had been baiting it for the last two years establishing the baits.

It is this type of location that true trophy bear hunters dream about, it’s isolated and almost untouched by humans. Spring in Northern Manitoba is when the bears emerge from hibernation, and the birds return from their southern journey. The forests explode with life as the countryside seems to come alive. It’s the perfect time for nature lovers, and fisherman, and of course radical bear hunters to be in the outdoors.

I arrived at my final destination in a single-engine Beaver with floats. Golden Eagle Lodge is located on Sickle Lake, which is approximately 40 air miles from the Town of Lynn Lake.  Golden Eagle is one of those places that make up the final frontier of Canadian bear hunting. Lodge manager Jason Dyck greeted us as we exited the float plane.  The main lodge overlooks beautiful, unspoiled Sickle Lake. That made me want to grab my flyrod and wet a fly right away. Jason and I seemed to hit it off right from the start, swapping bear stories we had experienced. He reminded me of myself when I was young: all business and really dedicated to producing results for the clients. Golden Eagle runs a small operation that prides themselves on quality rather than quantity when it comes to bear hunting and fishing. They have a vast amount of land to hunt but only take a few hunters every year to insure that the quality trophy bears are taken every spring. As a matter of fact, I was only the second and last hunter for the year. The first hunter was a woman bowhunter who passed on several animals before killing a bear that almost stretched the tape to seven feet nose-to-tail on her third day.

Jason suggested I stay at the Keewatin Point Outpost Camp which is near the mouth of the Keewatin River because it would save transportation time back and forth as the lodge was at the extreme other end of the lake. He had a number of established baits in the area and there was a real monster coming into one of them from the sign he was seeing every few days.

Every one of the six baits we examined had been hit. But there were two baits we both really liked. Both of them were in tight dark locations less than 200 yards from the lake’s edge. I had a very optimistic feeling about these baits. They just looked like big bear spots. Places were the bears would feel comfortable moving in and out during daylight hours.

To the inexperienced, hunting spring black bear over bait might not appear esthetically gratifying or fair, but believe me it is a tremendous experience. Any bear that is baited is not a pushover. This is especially true of the trophy bruins over seven years old. They hit baits infrequently and many times it’s well after legal hunting hours are past. Big guys always circle a bait checking the wind and ease in with all their senses revved to the limit. These big old boars are anything but simple to get a shot at.

The first three evenings on stand were still and very quite with no activity. As I sat on stand my mind kept reflecting back to the past fishing and hunting trips with my dad. Several times I had to hold tears back because I realized he wouldn’t be with me much longer, and I was having difficulty dealing with that fact. He is a special person and I love him dearly. I also started to realize this was day three and I hadn’t seen any movement at the baits. Jason had told me this evening on the way into the bait that all the other baits had not been hit either for the last three days. Something was wrong.

We discussed the situation on the way back to camp and decided to put a couple digital scouting cameras on each of the two baits that night. We also agreed that the bears must be feeding on some natural food source that was available and that was the reason they were not needing to visit the baits. So we decided to hang a new beaver carcass high in the air at the baits, hoping they would wind the odor and come into the baits again.

The next evening as I sat in stand waiting for something to happen I kept thinking about my dad and how much I wanted to please him on his request to me to kill him a big bear. When suddenly I heard something behind my stand and very slowly turned my head catching a glimpse of the pumpkin sized head of the monster slowly circling behind the bait. He never came into the bait and I only had about twenty minutes remaining of shooting light. On the trail to the left of the bait I caught more movement out of the corner of my eye.

It was a large black timber wolf sneaking into the opening of the bait area. As he entered he looked around, stopped, and looked directly at me in the stand and stared at me with his bluish green eyes. It gave me a real eerie feeling as though he was looking right through me. Then he suddenly walked past the bait opening and disappeared behind the bait. By now shooting light was over and I had to descend my stand soon to meet Jason at the pick up point. But I was wondering in my mind where the wolf had gone in the darkness of the night behind the bait.

After a successful day of pike fishing the next day, it was time to pick up and get moving as daylight was fading quickly on the lake. On the way back as we came around a point not far from the bait, a black blob appeared in the lake about 200 yards to my left. I pointed it out to Jason. We decided to go take a look. As we approached with the boat we were surprised, it was a mature bear swimming across the lake from the back side of the bait. We pulled in front of him with the boat and noticed his head was cut up and bloody. He also had no intension of turning back in the direction from which he had come. He was swimming across that lake and he didn’t care what was in front of him!

I have come across many animal swimming lakes or rivers over my years and every time you go in front of them with the boat they turn back in the direction they came because they feel it’s safer. We figured that this guy just had his butt kicked by the monster boar and was not going back for more. He was getting out of the big bear’s way no matter what. The big old bear must have been laid up close to the bait when this guy came in and all hell broke lose. Many times an old boar will take possession of a food source and will chase anything away that comes into his space. This made my day because it told us he was back, and maybe we would finally get to see him up close and personal on my last day.

Jason and I discussed a plan for the last evening’s hunt on the way to the bait from camp. We would go in a few hours earlier than we had been hunting, and I would quickly get settled in the stand while Jason quietly baited the two barrels. Then he would softly tap the barrels with a stick to give the elusion of something feeding at the bait. He would then rush to the boat and exit the area. He would also leave an orange vest next to the shore of the pick up point and if I did get a shot I was to hang the vest and he would come back from the other side of the lake where he planned to fish while I sat.

Everything went as planned and Jason gave me the “thumbs up” before exiting to the boat. It was extremely quiet and I could hear him get in the boat, start the motor and speed across the lake. Now the wait began. I looked into the crystal clear sky and prayed for God’s help on this the last night of my hunt.  I grabbed up my bow and nocked an arrow.

I had been sitting motionless in my treestand for just under an hour waiting patiently for Old Big Foot, as I had named him, to show at the bait. Then it happened. From the corner of my eye I sensed some type of movement. Ever so slowly I turned my head and there he stood just behind my stand on my right, appearing like a phantom out of thin air. I gulped…and then relaxed.

He looked bigger than a Volkswagen when he stepped forward from behind my stand at approximately 20 yards. His head was enormous, very wide with bulging mounds on both sides and with a deep crease down the top. The ears looked really small, he was exceptionally long in length, and his belly hung low. He had an extremely thick dense shiny coat, so thick you could see it split when he moved. I could actually see it glistening in the setting sun. His body was frozen in place as he swiveled his heavy head, sniffing the air. Then suddenly he shuffled slowly and cautiously moving closer to the bait and into my bow range as I coaxed him in my mind. “Only about five more steps big boy, come on now, keep coming,” I thought as he moved closer. My fingers curled tighter around my release.

I could tell by his body language he had no clue I was waiting in ambush. If these big old boars sense something is wrong or slightly wind your human scent they will not come into the bait until well after dark, if at all.  I have seen this happen so many times over the years. A black bear has a much better sense of smell than even a whitetail deer and most hunters do not realize that and it affects their overall success on their hunt for a mature bear. To overcome this I had done all the normal precautions of showering and spraying my equipment with Scent Killer spray. I was wearing Scent-Lok BaseSlayers under my Scent-Lok Full Season jacket and pants, plus I was wearing Scent-Lok’s head cover and gloves. I wanted my scent to be as under control as possible. Actually Scent-Lok technology has made me a better hunter because it has allowed me to get closer to game regardless of wind direction. I like to call it up close and personal.

He passed in front of the two barrels and they completely disappeared. I sucked in a deep breath. Suddenly in just an instant he was in a quartering away position with his huge front leg stretched out presenting what I had been waiting for, the perfect shot opportunity. Now it was up to me. I slowly drew my bow to full draw, anchored, put my pin on the spot and sent my arrow sizzling through the air. Almost instantly I heard the impact of the hit and watched the orange vanes vanish. He literally dropped in his tracks piling up in a big heap. The broadhead had severed his spinal cord, and skewered both heart and lungs for an instant kill.

I shot up on the platform of my stand, raised my arms in the air, and screamed a victorious “YES! Thank you, dear Lord. Dad, this was for you!” Then I sat down, waited for my thundering pulse to return to normal and thought of how I got to this point in this, the land of giants. Encountering this gargantuan bear did not happen by chance. As I glanced down and marveled at the bear’s size from my perch I was thinking of what I have stressed to the many people that attend my seminars each year at the sportsman shows.

I learned a long time ago that if you want to kill big bears you have to hunt where big bears exist, those places are getting more difficult to locate. Not all areas are created equal when it comes to big game animals, especially record book class black bears and a study of the Pope and Young or Boone and Crockett record books will confirm that fact. I truly believe it’s harder to kill a big black bear that will qualify for record book entry today than it is to kill a big whitetail deer.

It’s getting much harder even in the really remote locations of North America to find a truly big black bear of trophy class. But the real key to growing big bears is age. Boars that exceed 500 pounds are between 7 to 15 years old. That is why I chose this remote location of Manitoba it was virtually the end of the road in the northwestern section of that Canadian province on the edge of the Boreal Forest. The bears in this vast country are pretty much unhunted, they receive very little pressure at all. Certainly the big black bears that I target are extraordinary for their size. They rival and even exceed a grizzly bear in stature.
Jason and I spent many minutes admiring the size and beauty of this behemoth of a bear, everything from his battle scarred head to his thick fur and gigantic front pads that measured over 7 inches across. His hide measured 7 feet 8 inches nose-to-tail. We estimated from measurements he was between 550-600 pounds, that’s huge for a spring bear. The skull green scored a whopping 22 2/16 inches and he had a neck measurement of 33 inches. From the wear on his teeth we guessed he was at least 15 years old. He is my finest black bear ever, and dedicated to my dad. Just knowing he has more kin in the area will be enough to bring me back to the land of giants in search of another Bigfoot.

Note: I called my dad as soon as I arrived in Winnipeg on June 12, to tell him the whole story of the monster bear I had killed for him. He was happy and told me he was proud of me and loved me, but I could tell from his voice he was failing even more since I had begun the trip. My dad passed away on June 13, about two hours after I got home from this trip. I think he was waiting to say his good-byes. I love you Dad, you are in my heart and thought,even though we can’t be together for now.

For more stories and articles by Dick Scorzafava check out his book The Radical Bowhunter.

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Alex Gyllstrom
Scent-Lok Technologies

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Alex Gyllstrom
Scent-Lok Technologies

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Having a blast at the '08 Camo Ball

The event starts at 5:00 PM and will be held at Devos Place in downtown Grand Rapids, MI . All who wish to attend are invited. Tickets to the Ball can be purchased online at www.huntforacure.com or 616-455-9405. The costs will go to a research program taking place at Michigan State University that has already began making progress toward a possible new form of treatment that would greatly slow the growth of fibrosis in the lungs and is enthusiastically pushing forward with their research.

The evening will be full of activities such as dinner, music and a variety of exciting raffles and auctions. If you are unable to attend, but would still like to make a donation please call 616-455-9405 for more information. If you are a business owner, you are encouraged to purchase a sponsorship for this or another upcoming event. Some of the raffles that will be taking place are the Ted Nugent raffle where three people will be drawn for a chance to win. First prize will be a hog hunt at Sunrise Safaris in Jackson, MI with Ted Nugent, second prize is a $500 gift certificate to Cabela’s and third prize is a free Scent-Lok suit. Tickets for this raffle are $20. Remington Firearms will be there with a few guns to raffle off as well as many more companies with great and exciting products and packages. The auctions that will be taking place offer everything from vacation and hunting packages to guitars, guns and major league baseball packages. There is truly something for everyone.

BACKGROUND- Hunt for a Cure was founded in 2001 by Pete Odland when he was sitting in his tree stand one day thinking about a better way he could help people with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). Pete’s then four year old son suffers from CF so Pete and his family were already helping with existing fundraisers, but Pete wanted to do more for his son and others that suffered from the terminal disease. People soon jumped on board with Pete’s dream and were eager to help Hunt for a Cure get up and running. Eight years ago Pete approached Scent-Lok Technologies about being a sponsor for the foundation. After meeting Pete and seeing his enthusiasm Scent-Lok embraced the cause and became the title sponsor for Hunt for a Cure.

Ever since, Hunt for a Cure continues to grow and raise money to help find a cure for CF. Since their start in 2001, Hunt for a Cure has raised over $500,000. There are over 40 volunteers currently involved with Hunt for a Cure and they are always looking for more to help the cause.

For more information about Hunt for a Cure and other upcoming events like their River Valley Golf Outing on Sep. 11 visit www.huntforacure.com or call 616-455-9405.

Please help those in need by supporting Hunt for a Cure’s mission. With your help, Hunt for a Cure can help those suffering from cystic fibrosis live to see their dreams come true.

Alex Gyllstrom
Scent-Lok Technologies

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