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Craig Family Museum Seminar-Making The Shot Of A Lifetime
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The 5th Annual Craig Family Camp served as a place for novice shooters to learn firearm safety, shoot Ruger rifles, shotguns and pistols, all in a safe controlled environment with knowledgeable mentors and instructors. That feeling of accomplishment that comes from hitting your mark, that feeling of empowerment that if you can learn to do this, you can learn to do anything. Having the ability and freedom to accomplish all of our hopes and dreams is exactly what this great country and the Craig Family Camp is about. The firearms gave these women a glimpse of more possibility on the horizon and a newly found confidence to work towards that possibility.
Over 80 women attended the Craig Family Camp’s 5th Annual Women’s Instructional Shooting Day he camp provided the opportunity for women to shoot Ruger 22 rifles, shotguns, Ruger pistols, concealed carry options and proper rifle scope mounting techniques featuring the Nightforce Optics SHV 3-10×42, all in a safe controlled environment with knowledgeable mentors and instructors. The camp is supported by community volunteers that work to ensure attendees have an excellent experience.
The Craig Family Camp is a place where the outdoors and families come together. Many of the women that attended the camp arrived with the anticipation of a first hunting season, or they are taking a child on a hunt and wanted to be better prepared, while others came with the need to learn how to shoot in order to take greater responsibility of personal protection while in the home. The small town of Bloomington Indiana is filled with women that have a desire to become more involved with hunting, shooting sports and a desire to learn more about firearms.
The Craig Family is generous in heart, creating the camp that is free to attendees a place where friends and families have the opportunity to learn, grow and create memories. A place where traffic jams and email is replaced by campfires and hiking trails. A place to curl up next to the fire in the 5000 sq. ft. lodge with enveloped in conversation with a new friend.
The Craig Family wants all who walk upon this 100 acre wooded sanctuary to escape, grow, remember and pass on the lessons learned while here. An opportunity to encourage and empower others is what the camp is truly about.
A prayer was spoken before lunch was served, one that spoke of faith, family and friends, and the important things in life, the gift of time and knowledge. Glory to God for these gifts and as servants of the Lord, it is our responsibility to pass along the gifts that are given to us throughout life, to others creating a ripple effect that is felt by the world.
It is with many thanks that I give praise to the Craig Family for hosting such a tremendous community outreach and to the people within the community that generously donated their time, resources and knowledge.
It is only with the support of families like the Craig’s, volunteers and generous donors that events like this are possible. This is truly a grass roots effort to ensure the continuation of our time honored hunting, outdoors and shooting sports traditions.
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation provided grant assistance to the camp making the event free of charge to ladies in attendance. Thank you to Buck Knives Dead Down WindWilderness Athlete & Cabela’s for providing give-aways to the ladies. And, thank you to the First Lady of Indiana, Janet Holcomb for coming out and spending the day with us.
