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I know I have been tardy in posting this, but I finally got a moment to write up something about the hunt. The 2014 Women’s Javelina camp held in February was a great success! We had women of all ages come and join us to learn how to hunt. As most of you know, the whole point of this camp is to recruit women into the hunting community by creating a safe environment where women can learn to hunt. We try to pair up each student with an experienced mentor and let me tell you, we have some very highly skilled mentors that assist with this camp! We couldn’t have such a successful camp without our mentors generously giving of their time and talents. This year we had 28 students (3 of which didn’t have tags, but just wanted to come see what hunting was about) and about 25 mentors, plus cooks and other helpers. So all in all we had about 70 people at camp. Four ladies harvested javelina and several others had shot opportunities. Some of the ladies also harvested some jackrabbits and their mentors taught them how to field dress their quarry. We had unseasonably warm weather which made it hard at times to find javelina. But the ladies and their mentors stuck with it and we still had success! We also had a full moon during the camp and that made for beautiful nights around the campfire. This camp wouldn’t be possible without the hard work and monetary resources of many people and organizations. The camp is primarily funded by a grant from the AGFD as part of their continuing effort at hunter recruitment and retention. AZ Safari CIub International provides all the equipment necessary for cooking meals along with tables, chairs, and canopies! AZ SCI also arranged for the portojohns for the camp, thank you Bobby! Team Younggunz provided excellent mentors, great knowledge of the hunt units, extra tables, chairs and coolers for water. The southern AZ chapter of the NWTF helped by providing mentors as well as some very nice camo backpacks for the ladies, along with hunting information and coupons for hunting gear! CouesWhitetail.com donates money for the camp as well as coordinating the entire event. And many of our mentors are longtime CouesWhitetail.com members! Eileen Cooper, one of our students, provided extra firewood as well as homemade apple dump cake. Roger and Ilene, Peg and TJ and Mike Anderson slaved away in the kitchen providing great food for our attendees! Mike Miller of Miller’s Southwest Processing (a sponsor here on CouesWhitetail.com) donated smoked pork/beef, hamburgers and breakfast sausage! Kathy Greene of Arizona Outdoor Women helped us with shopping and managed to get discounts on food and donations through the restaurant where she works (KG’s restaurant located East of I-10 on Grant Road). Ilene and Roger also spent countless hours planning and shopping for this event. In addition Mike Christensen of Pass it On Outdoor Mentors helped us secure insurance for the camp at about a third the rate it normally costs us by allowing onto his policy. With all the savings on food, insurance and portojohns, we will be able to return money back to AGFD to be used for another event! And the left-over food we had from our camp went to support a youth hunt put on by the AZ SCI Chapter the weekend after our hunt! Thanks to everyone who helped make that possible! Many thanks to the following mentors that helped at this camp! AGFD Commissioner JW Harris joined us at the camp and was also a mentor. I appreciated that he came out to see firsthand how important these camps are to the adult ladies that want to learn to hunt. Gerald Perry Mark Kuhn Kelly Neal Tracy Hardy Carl Young + 4 guys (Nash, Bryce, Derrick and Dale) Jack Wheat Deb Wesch Tracey and Angie Kathy Greene and Don Greene Linda Dightmon Michelle Crabb JW Harris John Dollar Chris and Kori mosley Mike Knudsen Tom Joiner Mike Pierce Leroy Ted Simpson Amanda