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Message: <blockquote data-quote="luvcatchingbass" data-source="post: 494611" data-attributes="member: 1979">YEAH. Like a crappy gun or a bunch of crappy guns that anyone can buy off the shelf or nobody wants. Our SCI Chapter is trying an online only Auction of various trips and it has been running for 3 weeks nation wide and I can tell you right now unless people get to bidding in the next 2 days we aren't making very much after we pay the auction company and pay the outfitters because guess what NOT EVERYTHING is 100% donations. SCI is not able to get the ND tags because we are 501 c (4), basically meaning SCI does political advocacy and lobbying. That sure would suck if an organization in the state of ND got a donation from the state to raise money then turn around and use that money to try to advocate for what the people that utilize the states resources for hunting and fishing.<a href="https://www.onlinehuntingauctions.com/SCI-Red-River-Valley-Chapter-2026-Online-Auction_as117150" target="_blank">https://www.onlinehuntingauctions.com/SCI-Red-River-Valley-Chapter-2026-Online-Auction_as117150</a>I got probably 40hrs or more of my spare time putting this together this 1 auction of 25 (this spring I had 2 days of banquet auctions and about 45 items each night) then not sure how many hours contacting winners and outfitters to make sure everyone is on the same page and getting outfitters paid. Like [USER=216]@Petras[/USER] said there is a lot of work that goes into these things and some places don't have the man power, I will not vote for our chapter to run a raffle because I know that it CANNOT be ran correctly and I don not have the time to devote on top of what I already do. I wish I had competent help on our SCI Banquet Auction but every time I give someone a task they let me down and I do it myself. TRUST me there are lots of things I would rather do than volunteer all the time I do to our SCI Chapter but I truly believe that IF we can grow we stand to make some meaningful impacts in conservation areas in the future, currently we have been focusing on youth, disabled and veteran hunting education and opportunities with some general humanitarian involved</blockquote>

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