I am a teacher in Northern AB. One of the classes I teach is "WILDLIFE". Within this course, I teach the hunter education program where students can do their hunter ed exam to earn their license and credit.
This year, after a LOT of work, my school board has given me permission to take my entire class on hunting trips.
We have a few trips booked.
1) A survival camp where they make shelters and sleep in them for the night on crown land AND we get to walk trails for grouse/hare with a shotgun.
2) I am allowed to take them on a bus to cruise gravel roads for grouse with a shotgun. I know this isn't ideal hunting, but in my eyes, I just want to get as many kids out hunting as possible.
3) I am taking them to a farm field near my house where they will all sit in a stand of willows and hopefully catch a white tail coming out to feed or a buck coming out looking to breed. This will be a rifle hunt. I am going to take them a few times on this one.
The donations I need are binoculars. I need bino's for the deer hunting.
In order to have my entire class sitting in willows waiting for deer, I have to have them about 200-250 yards away from the bush the deer are coming out to feed from.. If the kids are too close, I know we will spook the deer before they even come out because of how many ppl I will have with me.
So they need to be able to see the deer while sitting 200-300 yards away from where they come out. I know if they can see the deer in the bino's they will be excited, satisfied and successful. IF they can't see the deer, it will be hard to keep their focus and they won't feel successful.
The bino's will have another use..
There is a very large chunk of bush behind my school where deer come out to feed. In November the deer actually come out in block 4 when I teach this class. So I am going to take the class to scout the bush where the deer come out, identify the deer trails/sign and then I will teach the class how to play the wind to find a spot and wait for the deer to come out. We will sit in this field a handful of times practicing being quiet, where to sit, how to rattle/grunt etc.. Bino's will play a huge role in their understanding of how to hunt deer and learn their habits.
If your still reading... This year me and another staff member are the only ones allowed to carry and shoot. If the program is successful this year, I am going to try to move towards students doing the shooting next year.
I made a post earlier about asking for bino donations, but my school didn't want me to say they were for taking a highschool class on actual hunting trips because they were a bit worried that they will get negative reactions from anti hunting groups. I was able to convince them that they were very unlucky to get such a reaction from a hunting forum.
If you can donate bino's please pm..
I have emailed several optics companies directly about donations and discounts and the only company that has got back to me has been Leupold. They are willing to give me dealer pricing, but its still much more than we can afford. We have to run 3 separate wildlife classes and 4 separate outdoor educaiton classes on $2,000 total
Highschool hunting trip--> Need donations
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