Just wanted to take a moment to again say, Larry, you are a special fellow.

Thank you for all you do for us. I'm proud to call you my friend.

I can only imagine the expenses and hardships that Phil's wife and family will face in the future, including medical bills, funeral expenses, shelter, subsistence, school and all of the other costs of child rearing and living in general.

Phil was by all accounts a fine young man, and was truly one of us. So, count me in for another 6 buff and 7 elephant hunt tix. I hope the extra money will help the family.

And thanks again, Larry, for all you are doing to push this effort forward.

Best,

Thanks Michael.

The money was received overnight.

Making another transfer today

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
I can only imagine the expenses and hardships that Phil's wife and family will face in the future, including medical bills, funeral expenses, shelter, subsistence, school and all of the other costs of child rearing and living in general.

Phil was by all accounts a fine young man, and was truly one of us. So, count me in for another 6 buff and 7 elephant hunt tix. I hope the extra money will help the family.

And thanks again, Larry, for all you are doing to push this effort forward.

Best,

Good man

Second wire completed today .

I want to give a brief report .

We have raised just shy of $35,000 to date.

The Buffalo tickets are perilously close to selling out.
I have questions about the info I received . At the least 139 out of 150 have been sold .

7 gun tickets have been sold.

18 pheasant tickets have been sold.

34 hog tickets have been sold.

11 elephant tickets have been sold .

If it wasn’t a conflict, I’d buy a bunch of elephant tickets.

Two transfers have been made to the family . There is likely one more to be made this week.

Thanks all. Buy more tickets!

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Originally posted by larryshores:
I want to give a brief report .

We have raised just shy of $35,000 to date.

The Buffalo tickets are perilously close to selling out.
I have questions about the info I received . At the least 139 out of 150 have been sold .

7 gun tickets have been sold.

18 pheasant tickets have been sold.

34 hog tickets have been sold.

11 elephant tickets have been sold .

If it wasn’t a conflict, I’d buy a bunch of elephant tickets.

Two transfers have been made to the family . There is likely one more to be made this week.

Thanks all. Buy more tickets!

No kidding on the elephant tickets. I was torn and may pop in for a few of them. Heck, maybe even the hog hunt to enjoy some swamp swine hunting.

Thanks again for doing this, Larry. You have always stepped up with these matters. Frankly, I don’t even recall if you said you even knew Phil. You’re a stand up man. Cheers to you.

Marcus:

I don’t recall ever meeting him. We did communicate about something several years ago. I don’t even remember what it was about.

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Originally posted by larryshores:
Marcus:

I don’t recall ever meeting him. We did communicate about something several years ago. I don’t even remember what it was about.

Larry:

Once again, I hope you didn’t take that the wrong way. It’s incredible what you’ve done for someone you haven’t met, especially while you’re in a crazy season for your “real job.”

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Originally posted by larryshores:
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Thanks all. Buy more tickets!

Just got 7 tickets for elly.

Fantastic!

FYI- the Buffalo tickets are sold out.

We still have plenty of the others.

Thanks everyone!

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Originally posted by tanks:

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Originally posted by larryshores:
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Thanks all. Buy more tickets!

Just got 7 tickets for elly.

Can't read. It is actually 6 tickets I guess for $1,000

I said 7 in my Paypal comments FYI.

Check in the mail for 7 elephant tickets

Here is the latest:

As of right now, the raffle has raised $39,700. In addition to the sold out Buffalo hunt, we have issued the following # of tickets:
Gun – 11
Pheasant – 24
Hog – 37
Elephant – 21


Thanks all! Buy more tickets.

We have made two transfers to the family .
As soon as the Pay Pal money is transferred to the AWCC accounts,
We will be making more transfers.

Check in the mail for hog and elephant.

Check is in the mail and it appears that I have another check to put in the mail for the painting auction.

Guys I have added 2 more of my guns to the Raffle in order to raise more money for Leah and the children. I don’t think any have been fired and are in perfect condition. They have been a back of the safe dweller. I tend to buy the guns take them out of their cases put them in the safe and forget about them. I keep the cases usually. If I find the cases of the two new guns I will ship too.

I want to sell an additional 50 tickets so 150 total instead of 100 @ $100.00 each.

Guns are a Benelli super black eagle two silver anniversary edition. 12 gauge camo. A Fauci 12 gauge over and under DU gun of the year. These are in addition to the gun listed on this thread all three included with one ticket.

I hope this raises another 15 grand for Phil’s family.

I don’t post pics so if someone wants to email me I will send you you can add them
Jeff@jhinc.us

I have pre sold about 40 tickets not included in Larry’s number. Remember if you send to Larry include name and contact info, all applicable
Gun transfer laws will apply.

Thanks

Check in the mail for a couple of Ele tickets. Also donated directly through DSC before I saw these raffles.

God bless the family.

Jeremy

Thanks again to everyone who has participated.


We have had some interesting experiences. First and foremost in my mind is the number of professional hunters who have participated. Thys de Vries & Jumbo Moore did not even know Phillip. Yet, they offered up the Buffalo hunt . We have had several buy tickets even in these trying times.

We have other hunts offered to us. We are holding off for the time being .

I am out of the country hunting . I don’t have instant access to my office . I suspect
we have raised over $50,000. When one includes the money AR members contributed to the DSC Frontline Foundation, the number has to go much higher .

Thanks to Mike Burke who got this matter posted elsewhere. We had a flurry of activity that I suspect came from his efforts.

Thus far, the raffle has raised $49,450! We have received $25,100 through Paypal & $24,350 in checks. Paypal fees are $836.65 making the net raised $48,613.35.

We have issued tickets as follows: Gun-22; Hog – 47; Pheasant – 34; & Elephant – 48. I am waiting on 2 transactions that Paypal is holding so these tickets have not yet been issued (1 gun, 2 hog, & 2 elephant). I am waiting on clarification on a couple of other Paypal payments which did not notate which raffle. We have received 2 wires for $250 each with no reference or notation as to who sent them. I have included in the totals above but not assigned tickets. Also, we have a few miscellaneous others who asked for their buffalo payment to go towards the elephant since the buffalo sold out & to consider the remaining $50 a donation to the family.

Thanks!

Larry,
Remember that I have the Chapuis in 9.3 x 74R which has been shot about 30 times and in near pristine condition with a case if you need to raffle it..........

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Originally posted by Hogbreath:
Larry,
Remember that I have the Chapuis in 9.3 x 74R which has been shot about 30 times and in near pristine condition with a case if you need to raffle it..........

Thanks Rick. We may have a round 2.

Good to see the hunting community stepping up to help the family of one of us.
My condolences to the family.

Less than 2 weeks left. We have lots of tickets left.

We have transferred money to the family on four different occasions. Another coming Monday .

Mailing check for 5 hog hunt tickets with you tomorrow!!

CheerZ,

It appears the gun raffle is sold out.

I have just returned to the country but have not made it home yet. I hope to have a new status tomorrow.

Damn, Larry, did they jail you in Dubai?

Hey Larry, what is left on the raffles??

As of yesterday, the following were left

Elephant hunt 82

Hog hunt 188

Pheasant hunt 212

A 5th transfer was just made to the family.

Things have slowed . However, I do anticipate at least one more transfer. Perhaps more.

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Originally posted by larryshores:
A 5th transfer was just made to the family.

Things have slowed . However, I do anticipate at least one more transfer. Perhaps more.

Larry your effort is commendable. Have you thought of running for President?

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Originally posted by fairgame:

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Originally posted by larryshores:
A 5th transfer was just made to the family.

Things have slowed . However, I do anticipate at least one more transfer. Perhaps more.

Larry your effort is commendable. Have you thought of running for President?

I am afraid they would do a background check!

This entire matter has been interesting. Also, a lot more work than I thought humanly possible.

Here are a few tidbits:

1- The number of people who sent money with no contact info and/or which raffle is quite surprising.

2- Some well meaning people published PART of the info on the raffle. This really caused problems.

3- As a result of #2 above, I had one person accuse me of being dishonest. This really pissed me off. I personally bought the gentleman 6 buffalo tickets out of my own pocket. Part of me wishes he had won.

4- The support has been fantastic. The donated buffalo hunt and elephant hunt have gotten this a lot of exposure it may not have otherwise gotten. This is especially commendable as the operators in question did not know Phil.

5- We have other hunts offered to us. We are holding off for the time being . At some point, we will make a decision on round 2. Interestingly, one of the people offering a hunt has been the beneficiary of prior fund raising activities when they were injured.

6- we have received some money that we simply have no clue how it was intended to be used. No ticket or combination of tickets could come up to the amount sent. For example, one was $20. We are proceeding under the assumption that this was simply a contribution to be forwarded to the family.

7- We have had several who simply wanted to contribute. They wanted no tickets.

8- If we ever do this again, the tickets will be priced such that it will be clear which raffle they are for. This would have eliminated a lot of confusion.

Thanks again everyone!

Keep on the good work Larry. Your initiative is highly valued.

Morten

Hear hear for Larry Shores! A genuinely good man!!!

Pay Pal has shut the account down as they believe we are selling guns. We are working to get this cleared up.

I will bet it is more related to HUNTING, especially the elephant....??

GoFundMe has shut down any Conservative/Republican oriented funding!!

Crazy world!!

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Originally posted by 470EDDY:
I will bet it is more related to HUNTING, especially the elephant....??

GoFundMe has shut down any Conservative/Republican oriented funding!!

Crazy world!!

No, it is definitely the gun raffle. They are not going to reopen it.

It gets worse.

Pay Pal is holding $2,000 they won't release for 180 days.