While it’s too bad about Hannah losing her battle with cancer 6 years ago, why do hundreds of innocent yellow-bellied marmots (ignorantly referred to as “rock chucks”) have to pay with their lives for four years afterwards? The event already includes a motorcycle run, a walk/run and an auction, so why kill marmots at all? Hasn’t there been enough death?
Rock Chuck Derby in Bliss Raises $300,000
April 27, 2013
BLISS • Holding the lifeless rock chuck by the tail, Jeff Huber dumped the bundle of fur into a five-gallon bucket, put it on a scale and waited for the results.
Huber was hoping for a high number, but the weight failed short of the 16.8 pound world record.
“It’s OK, I’ll just go out again for another one,” he said. “It’s a three-day event. I have time to get a bigger one.”
Huber was one of the 300 hunters registered in the sixth annual Hannah Bates Memorial Rock Chuck Derby.
The event includes a motorcycle run, a walk/run and auction, but the main goal is to shoot the biggest rock chuck and bring it back to the saloon where it can be weighed by judges. The winner will be announced Sunday and will receive a gun as a prize.
Hunters gather from all over the nation to participate, said Sandee Bates, Hannah’s mom.
The derby became dedicated in Hannah’s honor after the 20-year-old lost her battle with cancer in 2008. Ever since, the event raised more than $300,000, Bates said.
The money has gone to school athletic programs, local nonprofits and children’s cancer support groups.
“Every year it amazes me how many people show up to show their support,” Bates said. “People are so generous every year.”
As the event continues to grow, more people get to learn Hannah’s story and leave knowing they are supporting a good cause, said Carol Wood, one of the event planners and who knew Hannah.
“A little bit of Hannah touches of them,” she said.
Huber said in years past, he normally just participates in the motorcycle ride. This year, he and his son, Kameron McGarity, 14, decided to try hunting.
“We’ll be back,” he said. “We can get a bigger one.”
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RULES AND REGULATIONS
Five Day Hunt: Wednesday, May 14 – Sunday, May 18, 2014
Location: Outlaws & Angels
Registration Locations:
– Outlaws & Angels – Bliss, Idaho
– Cal’s Log Tavern** – Twin Falls, Idaho
– TJ’s Lounge** – Buhl, Idaho
*Registration at these locations ends May 10
Registration Fee:
Adults $30
Youth $20 14 and under
Winner Classes:
Adults: Top 5
Youth: Top 5
Archery: Top 3
Muzzleloader: Top 3
Weigh In Times:
Wednesday, May 14: 2PM – 7PM
Thursday, May 15: 2PM – 7PM
Friday, May 16: 2PM – 7PM
Saturday, May 17: 2PM – 7PM
Sunday, May 18: 10AM – 1PM
All State of Idaho Hunting Regulations will apply and hunters must have a valid hunting license, or hunter education number.
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Disgusting. What does this inhumane event have to do with this poor girl for whom it is named? Was this a favorite pastime? I don’t see the connection. I bet she’d be appalled by these missing links (Idaho Man) holding this annual contest in her name! I suggest these people hold the weigh-in in Jackson Hole at the Walgreen’s. 🙂
Utterly horrible. What a shameful thing to do. Is anyone working to stop this?
Such a great state–I just can’t get enough of their cool outlook on life…
That’s one stupid redneck slob if I ever seen one!!
A thousand curses on that bloodthirsty infidel!!
~May His Next Meal Give Him The Bubonic Plague~
Nothing, but a bunch of uneducated, ignorant, hillbillies trying to prove their smarter than animals…..they are WRONG!!!!! Ignorant morons like this make me ashamed of being a part of the human race.
ignorant animal haters
Can there be any better evidence than tolerance of these widespread killing “derbies”, now including even one that targets creatures as harmless and inoffensive as mountain marmots, that America has come to embrace what Pope John-Paul termed a “culture of death”. He, of course, was more concerned about human fetuses and bits of protoplasmic goo than he was about crows or coyotes or marmots. But the phrase perfectly encapsulates what America has become, from its bizarre fascination with guns (aka killing machines) to its reflex reliance on lethal military action to resolve political disputes (preferably actions of the remote-controlled kind so that soldiers don’t have to actually get their hands soiled) to its recent cultural predilection for reality television shows that specialize in depicting animal abuse and death. This has become a society of moral degenerates that, if there really be anything like karma, richly deserves whatever calamities befall it. At least those will be my thoughts on the next 9/11.
Killing animals has become a porn fetish for some (the making of which is even protected by the Supreme Court). This should show you how disgustingly low the human race has fallen. I was sickened to read that there are still perverts like this being arrested.
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Real useless, coldhearted, brainless,bastards. Horrible humans can do only horrible things!