The dinner and raffle:
Laura's speech - thanking the sponsors, the participants, and explaining what the Michigan Crossbow Federation does:
Terry (turkeylips) and the first round of tickets - we were just getting started:
The food for both the 3D shoot and the dinner was AMAZING! Folks - its worth attending the event just for that alone!
Laura and Dave working - what a team!
Mike Avery
http://www.mikeaveryoutdoors.com/ was super-personable and an awesome MC. Ben was one of the lucky youngsters he recruited to help with the raffle drawings. (Ben was so happy to be able to wear my new pink Bohning hat!
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Terry chatting with Senator John Gleason. Senator John was a treat to meet as well! Great sense of humour and a supporter of the MCF.
Jeff Procter of Proc's Huntin' Buddies
http://www.procshuntinbuddy.com/ - what fun it was to meet this gentleman and his "buddy"!
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Jeff's got personality plus and we enjoyed chatting with him at the shoot and at dinner. He donated one of his Huntin' Buddies to the raffle and we were the lucky winners!
If you want to win you have to buy tickets! Terry and I were interested in some of the same items, so every time we'd buy tickets, Terry had to buy more too... and when Terry bought more, we'd have to buy more!
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Between us we had a serious pile of tickets...
We lucked out on a number of awesome raffle prizes!
Saying our good-byes to Laura and Dave:
A parting shot.... Dave and Dan Hendricks.
What a great time we had! The shoot and the dinner were wonderful, but the PEOPLE we got to meet and hang out with were the icing on the cake! There were so many more that I didn't manage to get photos of. NEXT TIME!
I really hope this event is the first of many successful annual MCF fundraisers. Thanks Laura!!!!!