2009 NM SPORTSMEN’S OUTREACH BANQUET/NM OUTDOOR EXPO SHOTGUN WINNER

The Remington 870 Express 12 ga. raffle winner was Ken Riddle. The drawing was held at the New Mexico Outdoor Expo on Sunday, August 23 at 4:00 p.m. Raffle tickets were sold at the New Mexico Sportsman’s Outreach Banquet and New Mexico Outdoor Expo. The gun was purchased by a club member to help support the First Annual La Joya Wildlife Management Area Clean-Up day being held on September 12, 2009.

The first runner-up was Autumn Mendoza who receiveed a Buck Gardner Tall Timber Delta Waterfowl Edition duck call. The second runner up was Lou Metzger who received a Buck Gardner Tall Timber Delta Waterfowl Edition duck call. Lou donated the call back to the club to provide to a child during the 2009 La Joya Wildlife Management Area Clean-Up and Dove Hunt. Thank you to all those who support waterfowl in NM. 

 2009 FUNDRAISING DINNER

ALBUQUERQUE – The inaugural dinner marked a successful beginning for the Duke City Duck Club. New Mexico’s first Delta Waterfowl Chapter raised just over $6,000, which will go to support waterfowl management on public, private and corporate lands and preserve waterfowl hunting as a traditional North American pursuit.

In addition to raising valuable funds the club added more than 50 new members to their roles. Most encouraging was the number of youth that participated in the evening, bucking the national trend of declining numbers of youth getting involved in hunting and angling.

GUN WINNERS 

The big draws of the evening were the special edition Delta Waterfowl rifles and shotguns up for grabs. The Delta Waterfowl Gun of the Year: Browning Gold Superlight Hunter went to Josh Rector, Albuquerque. The Mossberg 500 Youth camo 20-gauge shotgun went to George Thorning, Albuquerque. The H&R Pardner 12-gauge camo pump shotgun went to Mark Jones, Albuquerque. The TriStar Viper 12-guauge Semi-Automatic shotgun went to Alan Varner, Albuquerque. The Remington Model 715 .243 rifle went to Nelson Ackerman Jr., Albuquerque. The Remington Model 597 .22 rifle was sold during the live auction with proceeds going to St. Baldrick’s, the world’s largest volunteer-driven fundraising event for childhood cancer research.

DELTA WATERFOWL HISTORY

Beginning in 1911, The Delta Waterfowl Foundation gained notoriety when the father of wildlife management, Aldo Leopold, took the organization under his wing in 1938. As the senior waterfowl conservation organization, Delta is the leader in the field of waterfowl research. Through the training of over 350 PhD’s and Masters in biology, Delta is advancing research focused on enhancing and stabilizing waterfowl populations throughout North America. 

ABOUT US 

Duke City Duck Club is the only Delta Waterfowl Chapter currently formed in New Mexico. The chapter works to provide financial support for the organization to succeed in their mission; to provide knowledge, leaders and science-based solutions that efficiently conserve waterfowl and secure the future for waterfowl hunting.