Operation Game Thief: Clay Stoppers Shootout

Friday, April 24th -- Austin

You are gonna love this place! This year’s shoot will take place at the unassumingly beautiful Texas Disposal Systems “Wildlife Ranch,” which is by far the finest venue in this area for this type of entertaining. Situated on top of a hill, this Montana style lodge and challenging, but fun sporting clay course will make you feel like you’re in the high country. Bring your camera, because as you drive through the entrance towards the lodge you will see an incredible collection of free-roaming exotic animals.

This isn’t any box lunch deal! Our Texas Game Wardens are blue-ribbon chefs when it comes to cooking up wild game and frying fish. (They have promised to limit road kill to the hors d oeuvres.) After a morning of fast shooting you can relax in one of the many oversized rockers on the back porch that overlooks a prairie of Texas native grasses.

If you love the outdoors, bring your best shotgun and rally four of your best friends and come help us support our game wardens, men and women who have dedicated themselves and even put their lives on the line to protect your wildlife resources.

Register your team or make a supporting donation today!

OGT is Texas’ Wildlife Crime Stoppers Program. It is part of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and works to assist our Texas Game Wardens in their efforts to curtail poaching activity. The program raises money to fund promotion of public awareness, provides a tollfree reward hotline for reporting violations, and provides payments of rewards and payment of death benefits to the family of any of our officers killed in the line of duty. Our fundraising efforts have allowed us to purchase twelve smaller versions of our “infamous” Wall of Shame Exhibit to travel within each region around the state. These exhibits enable us to emphasize the magnitude of natural resource crime. Recently passed legislation allows the OGT Committee to offer rewards on additional criminal activities like boating while intoxicated and criminal trespass. The legislation also allows the Committee to better assist our wardens in implementing new and emerging technology in the fight against criminal exploitation of our wildlife resources. It’s a program that continues to work, thanks to supporters like YOU!

Photos courtesy of Bill Honza

Proposed Schedule:

Each team captain will receive a complete activity schedule Tuesday, April 22 prior to the shoot via e-mail. You will be able to forward this information to your team. If you are an individual shooter, you will receive this information.

Tournament # 1
8:00 - 9:00 Registration check in for morning shoot
8:00 - 9:00 Warm up Mulligan's Station
9:00 Mandatory safety meeting
9:20 Shooters to stations
9:30 Tournament begins
9:30 Vendor & booth set-up
10:00-2-man flurry or Ring a Poachers Chime games OPEN
10:30 - 11:00 Registration check in for afternoon shoot
11:30 Lunch
Raffles, Door Prizes & Drawings
1:00 Announcement of the first tournament and game winners

Tournament # 2
1:00 Mandatory safety meeting
1:20 Shooters to stations
1:30 Tournament begins
3:30 Raffles, Door Prizes & Drawings
4:00 Announcement of the second tournament and game winners

For more information, contact Event Coordinator Gina Nesloney at 512-332-9880, or gnevents@austin.rr.com