Buda -

 The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Operation Game Thief (OGT) invites you to the Clay Stoppers Shootout, sponsored in part by Joe McBride, on Friday, April 24, at the Texas Disposal Systems Exotic Game Ranch in Buda.

This year’s shoot will take place at the unassumingly beautiful Texas Disposal Systems Exotic Game Ranch, which is by far the finest venue in this area for this type of entertaining. Situated on top of a hill, this Montana style lodge and challenging, but fun sporting clay course will make you feel like you’re in the high country. Bring your camera, because as you drive through the entrance towards the lodge you will see an incredible collection of free-roaming exotic animals.

This isn’t any box lunch deal! Our Texas Game Wardens are blue- ribbon chefs when it comes to cooking up wild game and frying fish.  They have promised to limit road kill to the hors d’oeuvres.) After a morning of fast shooting you can relax in one of the many oversized rockers on the back porch that overlooks a prairie of Texas native grasses.

If you love the outdoors, bring your best shotgun and rally four of your best friends and come help us support our game wardens, men and women who have dedicated themselves and even put their lives on the line to protect your wildlife resources.

OGT is Texas’ Wildlife Crime Stoppers Program. It is part of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and works to assist our Texas Game Wardens in their efforts to curtail poaching activity. The program raises money to fund promotion of public awareness, provides a tollfree reward hotline for reporting violations, and provides payments of rewards and payment of death benefits to the family of any of our officers killed in the line of duty. Our fundraising efforts have allowed us to purchase twelve smaller versions of our “infamous” Wall of Shame Exhibit to travel within each region around the state. These
exhibits enable us to emphasize the magnitude of natural resource crime. Recently passed legislation allows the OGT Committee to offer rewards on additional criminal activities like boating while intoxicated and criminal trespass. The legislation also allows the Committee to better assist our wardens in implementing new and emerging technology in the fight against criminal exploitation of our wildlife resources. It’s a program that continues to work, thanks to supporters like YOU!

Raffle & Prizes

THREE GUN RAFFLE
Morning and Afternoon Drawing
Lucky winners will have an opportunity to select a gun in the order the raffle ticket is drawn

PRIZES FOR TOP SHOOTERS
Morning and Afternoon Competitions (Based on Lewis Class Scoring)Top three teams will have an opportunity to choose from three fabulous bird hunts!

CONSERVATION CUP AWARD
Perpetual trophy awarded to the highest scoring team representing an organized conservation entity. Two separate trophies are awarded to the morning and afternoon winners

Registration deadline April 16, 2009
Gina Nesloney • 512-332-9880
gnevents@austin.rr.com

UPDATE
If you are planning to attend but don't have your team put together - please allow us to at least reserve your team/s now. This will enable us to order our goody bags, hats and other items. Please drop me an e-mail.

NEW - (2) Course Layout (10) Stations (60) Birds
Limited to only 80 teams. (as of 3/9 we have 57 teams so pleaseRESERVE your team/s today and take advantage of a 10% discount on your entry fees and sponsorships. Payments must be received by March 20th - we DO accept credit cards. To pay by CC contact Lori Brock at 512-389-4381.
Fax all registration forms to 512-332-9881.
 
NEW - Only 2 flights this year! Course & Lunch sponsors have first pick of flights, Station sponsors second choice.
Tournament # 1  9:30 am
Tournament # 2  1:30 pm

NEW - Women's Division
Tournament #2 (1:30 Flight) is designated for the all-women shooting teams who will be completing against each other.
Prizes will be awarded to 1st - 3rd places for this division.

NEW - Conservation Cup Award for both tournaments.
Each tournament will present the Conservation Cup trophy to the highest scoring team representing an organized conservation entity. You are allowed to participate in both tournaments.

Schedule - Subject to change
Tournament # 1
8:00-9:00 Registration checkin for first group of shooters
8:00         Warm Upat the 2-man flurry or Ring a Poachers Chime games
9:00         Mandatory safetymeeting
9:20         Shooters to stations
9:30         Tournament begins
9:30         Vendor & booth set-up
10:30-11:00 Registration checkin for second group of shooters   
11:30       Lunch
                Raffles
1:00        Announcement of the first tournament and game winners                                 

Tournament # 2
1:00        Mandatory safety meeting
1:20        Shooters to stations
1:30        Tournament begins                 
3:30        Raffles
4:00        Announcement of the second tournament and game winners

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