Cohen Riddell with Wyvern Hunt and the 123.5 kg stag he shot last year. Photo / Dave Murdoch
Norsewood and Districts School is holding its major fundraiser for the year on March 16-18 when it runs its eighth Take a Kid Hunting and Fishing competition.
The competition starts at 3pm on Friday March 16 with weighing in on Sunday March 18, 1pm to 2.30pm.
Weigh-in day last year
was a hectic affair. Among the entries were 14 deer, 14 goats, more than 100 possums, rabbits, hares, magpies and wild turkeys.
As the possum fur was being plucked by machine, kids and adults were shooting targets with slug guns, pulling on the tug-of-war, eating cooked wild game delicacies like smoked eel, eating candy floss and watching a deer butchering demonstration.
Organisers say there are many benefits from the competition, apart from raising money for the school. "Children do not get too many opportunities to do this with their dads, and look, there is not a cell phone in sight," chief sponsor for this year, Dave Kerr of Dave's Sports 'n" Outdoors said last March.
