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Yet More Ethical Hunters
By Scott Bestul
Awhile back I posted the winner of the Wisconsin DNR/LaCrosse Tribune annual “ethical hunter” award. Click here if you missed it. Minnesota—which has a similar program—announced its winners recently. Minnesota’s program is co-sponsored by the DNR, the Turn In Poachers (TIP) program and the MN Deer Hunter’s Association (MDHA).
The winner of the adult category was Craig Holmstrom of Red Lake Falls. Holmstrom helped his friend Ray Ganyo—a quadriplegic since a 1981 diving accident—kill a doe during the 2008 season. Holmstrom invited Ganyo to join his hunting party (known as the “Marshall County SWAT Team”) and went out of his way to transport his friend to and from camp. He also convinced a local sports shop to donate a blind for Ganyo to hunt from. Holmstrom placed the blind along a field and accompanied Ganyo, who used a special device to activate his rifle’s trigger, and make a perfect shot on a nice doe. Holmstrom described the event as his best day of deer hunting ever.
The youth award went to Neil Symalla of Cold Spring, a 15-year old who showed tremendous restraint throughout the archery season. Symalla, a second-year hunter, passed on several marginal shots while waiting for a good one. He never scored. Later, during the rifle season, Symalla was leaving to hunt with his father, who noticed the youngster only had 5 cartridges. Symalla nixed a trip to a sport shop for more ammo, informing his dad that “if I don’t take a running shot, I only need one shell.” Symalla killed a nice buck that day…and has enough shells for four more years!
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Comments (10)
Glad to see that there are huunters out there who truly are good hearted! Keep it up guys and the tradition will be alive forever.
its good to see that ethics and sportsmanship are alive and well in MN...
Great to read about positives in the hunting world as opposed to the regular doom and gloom everywhere else. Kudos to Hymalla, Holmstom and all the organizations who sponsor/support them.
man i love my state it rocks. that is why i live in MN.
This is excellent.
The kid is a genius. I think we all need to take a cue from him.
I knew a quadriplegic man back in NY. Using special equipment, he managed to score almost every year, had a few nice bucks on the wall...and he was a BOWHUNTER. One of the more impressive people I will ever meet.
cool
i don't ever remember using more than 2 or 3 shells on a single hunting trip. i love mn. great hunting and fishing there. i plan to live there some day.
Really nice to hear about something positive about hunters for once. Also nice to hear that even young hunters are showing ethics
Congratulations to the youngster in Cold Spring! He has to be the first hunter in Minnesota to go hunting without a trailer full of ammo. His hunting brethren could learn alot from his character. I lived in west central MN. for 10 years. I owned and operated a shooting preserve there and was apalled at the amount of hunters who expected that 12 gauge slug to "drop" deer in there tracks. I personally watched as a neighbor shot 12 slugs at 5 different deer during one of our drives. He did not get out of his "blind" to check for sign of a successful shot, and when our drive was over, he got in his truck and left. I watched 3 of the 5 deer run into my woodlot with blood pouring out of their bodies. After locating all 3 dead deer, I had to track him down at the bar and make him recover the deer. The kicker is that he only had one doe tage and didn't want to claim the other 2. He called his buddies and they tagged the other two.
This wasn't an exception in that area but rather the rule. Hunters in Pope and Stearns Counties in MN. could learn alot from this young man!
Congratulations to the youngster from Minnesota. My father was firm on the amount of ammo that my brother and I could take into the deer stand, three rounds only. We both knew that we had better return with shot 2 & 3 in unfired condition. I believe that this young man is well on his way to becoming a hunter that each of us, who respect the wildlife we pursuit, can appreciate.
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Glad to see that there are huunters out there who truly are good hearted! Keep it up guys and the tradition will be alive forever.
i don't ever remember using more than 2 or 3 shells on a single hunting trip. i love mn. great hunting and fishing there. i plan to live there some day.
Congratulations to the youngster from Minnesota. My father was firm on the amount of ammo that my brother and I could take into the deer stand, three rounds only. We both knew that we had better return with shot 2 & 3 in unfired condition. I believe that this young man is well on his way to becoming a hunter that each of us, who respect the wildlife we pursuit, can appreciate.
its good to see that ethics and sportsmanship are alive and well in MN...
Great to read about positives in the hunting world as opposed to the regular doom and gloom everywhere else. Kudos to Hymalla, Holmstom and all the organizations who sponsor/support them.
man i love my state it rocks. that is why i live in MN.
This is excellent.
The kid is a genius. I think we all need to take a cue from him.
I knew a quadriplegic man back in NY. Using special equipment, he managed to score almost every year, had a few nice bucks on the wall...and he was a BOWHUNTER. One of the more impressive people I will ever meet.
cool
Really nice to hear about something positive about hunters for once. Also nice to hear that even young hunters are showing ethics
Congratulations to the youngster in Cold Spring! He has to be the first hunter in Minnesota to go hunting without a trailer full of ammo. His hunting brethren could learn alot from his character. I lived in west central MN. for 10 years. I owned and operated a shooting preserve there and was apalled at the amount of hunters who expected that 12 gauge slug to "drop" deer in there tracks. I personally watched as a neighbor shot 12 slugs at 5 different deer during one of our drives. He did not get out of his "blind" to check for sign of a successful shot, and when our drive was over, he got in his truck and left. I watched 3 of the 5 deer run into my woodlot with blood pouring out of their bodies. After locating all 3 dead deer, I had to track him down at the bar and make him recover the deer. The kicker is that he only had one doe tage and didn't want to claim the other 2. He called his buddies and they tagged the other two.
This wasn't an exception in that area but rather the rule. Hunters in Pope and Stearns Counties in MN. could learn alot from this young man!
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