NATCHEZ — After a successful fundraising banquet on Oct. 8, Redneck Adventures’ Outdoors Without Limits program is now gearing up for its second annual Youth Handicap Hunt.

Five locations in the Miss-Lou will host various children with disabilities, both physically and mentally, as well as gifted hunters that will enable these children to hunt for deer, many for the first time.

The hunt will take place next Saturday. The five different locations hosting youth hunts that day are Jack Shavely’s hunting lodge near Roxie, a hunting area close to Churchill, the Indian Mound hunting club near Knoxville and Trey Corbett’s farm near Ferriday, Redneck Adventures’ Jim Allgood said.

“Various children with various disabilities — approximately 25 children from the Miss-Lou and out of state — will embark on a deer hunt which local hunting lodges and clubs have come to the table to treat these children to,” Allgood said.

Allgood added that, since many of these children have never hunted in their lives, they’re looking forward to getting outdoors and hunting whitetail.

“What many folks need to realize is that lots of these children would like the opportunity to enjoy the great outdoors more so than that trip to Disney World,” Allgood said.

“Many of these children have never experienced Friday night at the hunting camp: the fire, the food, the fellowship and the stories told. (On Saturday morning), the woods and air will fill with sounds that most of them haven’t heard before.”

When Redneck Adventures hosted its fundraising banquet in October, the offering up of hunting areas by hunting lodges and private landowners weren’t the only things that benefited the Outdoors Without Limits program. It also raised a total of approximately $20,000 was raised before all expenses were deducted, Allgood said.

“The pictures and film shown at the banquet (illustrate) how much a life-changing experience Outdoors Without Limits truly is,” Allgood said.

“Without private landowners and hunting clubs stepping up to the plate, this whole thing could not be a reality.”

Allgood said putting on this program and enabling children with disabilities to hunt is more rewarding to him than going hunting himself.

“Let me put it this way, the last deer I personally took was Dec. 23, 1991,” Allgood said. “I’ve had two wounded warriors tell me on separate Redneck Adventures outings that, without the program, suicide was at their doorstep.

“One person told me this on an elk hunt in Wyoming, and another at Grand Isle, La. Both of them now are on many less drugs than what was prescribed to them for their injuries before their hunts, and are now high on life and the great outdoors.”

Because of stories like these, Allgood said the impact the Outdoors Without Limits program has made can’t be quantified.

“These events and moments over the past years alongside (Redneck Adventures co-host) Keith “Stork” Rayborn have been like MasterCard — priceless.”