The 2024. Outdoor Buddies sporting clay shoot fundraiser held at Colorado clays shooting park east of Brighton co. is in the books!

We had teams showing up at 8am to get signed in and donating through their entry fees as well as buying raffle tickets and bucket raffle tickets to help our fundraising efforts!

This clay shoot and raffle fundraisers are our largest fundraising events for the year so we count on corporate sponsorships, people from every walk of life to buy tickets from five raffle items!

We count on corporate team sponsorships as well as individual shooters to do the same!

Here are the winners of the clay shoot competition:

1) Interstate Roofing - Team score 360

2) Merrick - Team score 323

3) Eaton Corporation - Team score 319

Thank you to all of our sponsors for this event!

Crofutt Truck Repair

Merrick

Heart J Hunters

JHL Constructors

St. Thomas Steel

And here are the top two shooters:

Bob Williams - score 96

Sam Gluck - score 95

THANK YOU to all of our sponsors and donors!

This year’s clay shoot we added a game for the shooters to play! 

The shooters could donate money to get a raffle ticket to win a 20 ga. Shotgun for every green clay they hit! It was a big success and a great fundraiser! The shooters had a blast trying!

The young man, Nate McCorkell, who won the 20ga. Shotgun donated it back to Outdoor Buddies for us to raffle off at another fundraising event! Thank you Nate, you are a tremendous young man!

I want to thank all of the volunteers that helped make this fundraiser a good one! THANK YOU!

Next years Outdoor Buddies clay shoot fundraiser is scheduled for August 2nd 2025! Please save this date and invite companies and friends that you know to help keep great organization like Outdoor Buddies continue to thrive!

-Larry Sanford

President of Outdoor Buddies Inc.





The Outdoor Buddies 2024 Raffle is now history. The drawing for the 5 raffle prizes took place August 3rd at Colorado Clays as part of our annual fundraising clay shoot. 

We had another successful year thanks to our many on line purchasers and of course those that bought at on site sales.

Thanks to Centennial Gun Club, Cabela’s in Lone Tree and Thornton and Murdock’s on Sante Fe for allowing our volunteers to sell raffle tickets in their stores. 

We sold all 200 tickets for the 5-gun prize and several hundred each for the Havak rifle, Cow Elk Hunt, Quiet Kat e-bike and VISA gift card. 

The lucky winners who have all been notified: 

Roger Harris 5 Gun

Austin Kassner Quiet Kat

Luke Schreiner cow elk hunt

Anthony Frydrychowski Havak rifle

Jeff O Neill $1000 VISA gift card

Congrats to all of our winners.

Outdoor Buddies will be back in 2025 with another raffle with great prizes. Start us off by coming to our booth at the International Sportsman Expo! Should anyone want to offer us a chance to sell tickets at an event or their business, let me know.

-Terry Gleason

Outdoor Buddies Raffle Manager



Family fall fun for the whole family Saturday September 14th! 

We want to invite all of the folks with disabilities young and old as well as the youth and all their friends and family for a free day of fishing and tradition outdoor recreation!

The fishing for trout and perch are catch, keep/clean and cook this time! There maybe some 4 to 6lb trout stocked along with the perch and catchable size trout!

There will be fish stocked in two ponds at Colorado youth outdoors Swift ponds for the youth and folks with disabilities to catch and learn to clean and volunteers will be there to cook them up!

The fish are being donated by Catherine and Craig Harrison in the name of there son Chuck Harrison who sadly passed away a few years ago while going fishing which was Chucks passion in life! The Harrisons want Chucks passion for fishing and his legacy of love for the youth to come together at this fishing event for all to enjoy the great outdoors through traditional outdoor recreation like fishing! One thing that synonymous with Chuck Harrisons name was ‘THAT MAN COULD FISH!’

We will have volunteers that will be helping spin fish as well as fly fishing! There will be equipment and everything it takes to fish available to use at the event!

There is always a need for more volunteers so if you are looking to have a fun day helping out youth and folks with disabilities call the number provided on the flyer in this newsletter!

Lunch will be provided as well as lots of prizes to win!

Come join Outdoor Buddies and all of our volunteers and adaptive equipment as we enjoy family fun and celebrate the life of Chuck Harrison with his family and friends at this great event at Colorado Youth Outdoors at Swift Ponds!

See ya’ll there!

-Larry Sanford

President Outdoor Buddies Inc.

Call 720-773-7717 to RSVP



Outdoor Buddies now has a triton pontoon boat program!

We were awarded a grant from the White foundation to buy and build a pontoon program to continue our Mission of getting folks back in the outdoors that have been deprived of a great outdoor experience through traditional outdoor recreation!

How this process worked was we have a foundation that we needed to submit a request for something that would help our programs, general funds or to build something !I was asked what we needed in programing and my answer was unanimously was a Pontoon boat to start a program on the water for disabled folks either veterans with disabilities or folks with disabilities from youth on up!

This boat is handicap accessible and is 23ft long with a 115 mercury outboard motor!

We now have this in place that you can call the Outdoor Buddies office phone number 720-773-7717 and request an opportunity to go out on a boat ride or fishing etc…

This boat has the state of the art electronics called Garman live scope ,GPS and a trolling motor that works together to help us catch fish!

We will start running some outing out of Lonetree res. private club on the South West end of Loveland Co. 

They have good populations of bass, wiper bass, walleye, perch and more!

We have a few captains that will be operating the boat with folks that can help us fish!

This is a new program so we are still working out some of the logistics but we are on the water ready for some outings!

Call and get your name on the list as soon as you can so our team can get you out for a fun filled day of fishing and boating! If you have any questions on how this works feel free to contact Larry on the Outdoor Buddies office line and use my extension!

See ya on the water!

-Larry Sanford

Call (720) 773-7717 to get your name on the list!

A sticky, caramelized crust coats this tender and fragrant garlic and ginger laden stir-fry of lean red meat. I prefer venison, but lean beef can be used if venison is not available to you. This healthy Asian-inspired solution to dinner is on the table in under a half hour making it an ideal meal for busy nights. Adapted with thanks from Hunger and Thirst's Roadkill Elk.

Ingredients

• 1 pound venison or lean top round beef steak
• 3-4 tablespoons lard or canola oil
• 2- inch knob of fresh ginger root grated finely
• 5 garlic cloves peeled and minced
• 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon raw sugar or brown sugar, if necessary
• 1/4 cup soy sauce plus more if needed

Directions

1. Slice the venison (or beef) diagonally against the grain into strips that are about 1"x 4" and about 1/8" thick. Set aside.
2. Place a large, heavy-bottomed skillet over high heat and melt the lard or canola oil until shimmery.
3. Add the grated ginger and garlic cloves and stir constantly until fragrant, about 15-30 seconds. Add the venison to the pan and stir-fry until it is cooked about halfway through.
4. Sprinkle the raw sugar over the meat, then drizzle the soy sauce over the top. Stir to coat well and let it cook, undisturbed, until the liquid becomes thick. At that point, begin stirring until a sticky, deeply caramelized, crusty coating forms around the venison strips.
5. Remove from the heat and serve immediately garnished with sliced green onions.

Larry Sanford

President

970-218-5356

popslarrys@gmail.com

Nate Lucht

Vice President

(970) 219-8817

nate.lucht@hotmail.com

Christopher Nowak

Treasurer

303-717-7159

christopher_m_nowak@yahoo.com

Terry Gleason

Secretary

303-868-2579

terryjgleason@gmail.com

Kevin Kassner

Director

(303) 946-2502

kevin@asktechnolink.com 

Matt Camilleri

Director

860-930-2389

mcamilleri7@gmail.com

Tony Hodges

Director

303-523-0583

thodgesre21@aol.com

Steve Medberry

Director

720-255-9453

stevemedberry@gmail.com

Edgar Munoz

Director

720-261-1857

edgar4jec1268@gmail.com

Jim Piper

Director

303-514-8944

geopros@q.com

Frederick Solheim

Director-Warriors on Cataract

303-818-7600

WarriorsOnCataract@gmail.com 

Non-board members are welcome. Please RSVP in advance.

Meetings are held from 6:30pm-8:30pm at the locations and dates below.

September 10 - Lone Tree Cabela's

October - No Meeting

November 12 - Location TBD

December 10 - Location TBD

Outdoor Buddies is a proud to be a friend of Colorado Parks and Wildlife!

Colorado is world renowned for its wide array of outdoor recreation. Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) strives to make sure that everyone can access our special places and activities. Our CPW Accessibility page offers some programs available to people with disabilities, please check them out! 

If you have any questions, you may contact one of CPW's ADA Coordinator.

Jeremy Sifuentes

jeremy.sifuentes@state.co.us