The Pontiac Daily Leader had a fabulous article about the HOOAH Deer Hunt for Heroes “Golfing for Heroes” fundraiser.

Thanks to promotion from Guns Save Life and the good work of GSL members, along with this story from The Leader, this year’s event will be the group’s biggest fundraising event of the year — and then some.

If you would like to join Guns Save Life, an organization that gets proven results not only promoting gun rights, but also supporting and defending our nation’s armed forces members and veterans, you can get signed up here.

Also, if you would like to come out to tomorrow night’s fundraising dinner at the Pontiac Elk’s Club, we have about a dozen or eighteen seats available.  C’mon out.  Dinner is $20 and the company and camaraderie is priceless.

Among the items up for sale/auction/drawings:  guns, golf clubs, firearm training, gift baskets and the big items:  Some magnificent quilts.

Including this one.  Note the silhouettes of soldiers around the border.

Here’s the story from the Daily Leader:

More to outing than just hunting golf balls

Pontiac, Ill. (Pontiac Daily Leader)

• A Department of Veteran Affairs study from 2013 revealed a veteran commits suicide in the United States every 65 minutes. While these statistics may sound staggering, a 2015 Huffington Post article concluded although current data made it impossible to accurately determine the current suicide rate, “it seems likely that the number is significantly greater than 22 a day.”

  With the lives of United States veterans hanging in the balance, Tom Huffington, one of the founders of HOOAH Deer Hunt for Heroes, created an organization to reach out to veterans with the goals of:

  • The development of a platform for disabled veterans to pursue outdoor activities

  • Provide a quality whitetail deer hunting experience for disabled veterans — at no cost to the participant

  • Create awareness among the civilian sector of the sacrifices made by veterans

  • Coordinate with HOOAH to select suitable candidates

  • Work with HOOAH to ensure its program guidelines are met

  • Promote healing for our disabled Veterans in a non-traditional setting, outside of a clinical environment

  To help support a new year for the program, Huffington, who is not connected to the Huffington Post, and others, including co-organizer Wendy Boch, a member of Guns Save Life, have organized the second HOOAH Deer Hunt for Heroes Golf Outing, a four-person best position golf event being held Saturday at the Pontiac Elks Golf Course. All proceeds are used to help wounded veterans.

  “This is actually our biggest fundraiser of the year,” Huffington said. “This event is the best because everybody has a good time. What I like about best golfer is you can be a terrible golfer and as long as you’re paired up with someone who is really good, you can turn in a better team score. Or, you can just have fun. It’s a really relaxed environment and we will have one soldier team this year, the soldiers are coming out from Ft. Campbell (in Hopkinsville, Ky.)”

  In addition to golf, the event will feature raffles, a live auction, silent auction and all types of games on the golf course like longest drive, longest putt, closest to the pin, a skins game and a pink golf ball.

  “Essentially, you buy a pink golf ball and you have to play it every hole and you have to rotate who hits it every hole, so you have to hit it every time and if you have your pink golf ball at the end you can win a 50/50 jackpot when we draw names at the end,” Huffington said. “If you lose your ball and we draw your name, you’re out. Last year we drew five people who didn’t have their ball before we got to a winner.”

  There’s more!