2024 Hunter Education Course

Heartland DSC will be conducting a Hunter Education Certification Course on August 10-11, 2024 at the Papillion Gun Club.  This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to meet all requirements for certification in a single weekend. Certification meets the hunter education certification requirements throughout the United States and is valid for all states.

In addition to required hunter education instruction, students successfully completing the course will be provided the opportunity to participate in live fire at their option. Heartland DSC will be providing lunch for attendees both days and targets and shells for those participating in the live fire.

For more information or to register CLICK HERE.

Published July 2024

Heartland DSC Awards Mobility Chair at 2024 Summer Event

Heartland DSC awarded a mobility chair to a youth during the 2024 Summer Event much to the surprise of the recipient. This is the seventh mobility chair awarded by Heartland DSC and was presented to a 12-year old young man from Nebraska that was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy when he was four years old.

Upon being awarded the chair it quickly became evident that it will be put to good use as he raced around the grounds with other children in attendance. In addition to awarding the chair, Heartland DSC members and guests relaxed and socialized while 46 children enjoyed fishing the private ponds on the property.

Our latest chair recipient is shown here with his family and Heartland DSC Board Members.

Published June 2024

Heartland DSC announces new “First” Awards

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2024 Heartland DSC Banquet is a Great Success

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2023 Dream Hunt is Successful with a Dall Sheep

Our 2023 Dream Hunt recipient, Zach just finished up a successful hunt. Zach is the young man from Iowa that we awarded a hunt to beautiful Champion Ranch in central Texas where he was provided the opportunity to hunt a variety of game. Zach spent most of the hunt in pursuit of Texas whitetail, but things took a turn when he was provided the opportunity to harvest a Texas Dall Sheep ram on the last hunt of the last day. Zach was very excited with his trophy.

Zach is pictured here with his trophy ram along with Heartland DSC Board Member, Jerry Avis, and his mentor, Craig. While Zach had a mobility chair with him on the hunt, we would also like to extend our sincere appreciation to Champion Ranch for working closely with Zach to put him in the best possible hunting situations that resulted in a successful hunt.

Published – December 2023

ON TRACK Program Partnership

Heartland DSC has partnered with Nebraska Game and Parks in support of their On Track Program by making our all-terrain mobility chair available to them on a permanent basis. The On Track program is designed to provide people with limited mobility the ability to hunt, fish, view nature, and enjoy the outdoors in all types of terrain.

Heartland DSC mobility chair will be permanently available at a Nebraska State Park to allow visitors the ability to explore parks in new ways by accessing areas that may not be suitable for regular wheelchairs. The chair will also be available at a variety of events, park programs, mentored hunts, shooting ranges, and other educational and recreational activities across Nebraska.

Heartland DSC presented the chair to Nebraska Game and Parks during the 18th Annual Missouri River Outdoor Expo held at Ponca State Park on September 16-17, 2023. 

Heartland DSC’s chair is the fourth chair in the program and the goal is to have eight chairs available for use throughout Nebraska.

Published October 2023

Taking Kids on Safari at the Ronald McDonald House

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Getting Youth Outdoors in Central Nebraska

Heartland DSC is proud to sponsor outdoor equipment for the new Nebraska Game and Parks Outdoor Education Complex in Kearney, Nebraska opening in August of 2023. The complex is a family-friendly shooting sports complex with a focus on safety and family fun. The 134-acre facility on 60 recreational acres features four trap fields with two overlaying skeet fields and one 5-stand range. The rentable education center is 2,900-square-foot, American with Disabilities Act-accessible, offers classroom seating for up to 100 people and includes a full kitchen. Archery and interactive educational activities are also available. 

Our sponsorship assists with providing the necessary equipment that will allow youth to get outdoors to enjoy and experience outdoor activities. 

The facility is located at 10945 Poole Avenue, northeast of Kearney, Nebraska.

Published August 2023

Heartland DSC Sponsors Special Needs Fishing Clinic

Heartland DSC sponsored Nebraska Walleye Association’s Fishing is Fun Special Needs Clinic for kids at Holmes Park in Lincoln on August 12, 2023. During the event kids learned about casting, knot tying, and fish identification. Each kid was given fishing gear to keep, and provided the opportunity to do some fishing.

The clinic was also attended by parents wanting to learn about fishing as much as the kids do. We know these clinics have been successful because those same parents tell us thank you later in the summer and tell us about the great experience they had fishing with their kids. Another example of success is when we see the kids around the local pond using the fishing poles they received after completing a fishing clinic.

In addition to financial support for this great event, Heartland DSC representatives were on hand to help out.

Published August 2023

Mobility Chair Gifted to Ivy

Ivy is a young girl from Florida that requires a wheelchair for mobility. She comes from a family that enjoys the outdoors while fishing, hunting, camping or going to the beach. A traditional wheelchair did not provide access to many of the areas her family wished to take her along. 

Her mother reached out to Heartland DSC to share Ivy’s story after reading an article in Dallas Safari Club’s Game Trails magazine about a New Mexico elk hunt we had taken a young man from Nebraska on utilizing an all-terrain mobility chair. After hearing Ivy’s story, we knew that she was the perfect candidate for a mobility chair and went to work to acquire one for her. With the generous support of our donors and supporters we were able to raise the funds to provide Ivy with her own chair.

On Mother’s Day weekend 2023 we surprised Ivy with her very own NuMotion Mobility Chair. Ivy’s mother has stated, “This chair will change Ivy’s life providing her freedom she has never experienced and the opportunity to participate in outdoor activities with family and friends”.

Published April 2023