Life Hunts is a wish-granting service for children and young adults with critical illnesses and diseases. The program was officially founded in 1998 to grant hunting wishes and has served 148 children and young adults to date.

We will always accept applications from qualified children for Life Hunts. Because of the anti-hunting sentiment within many medical organizations, it is difficult for us to spread the word through these channels. Please help us get the word out to children's hospitals, cancer centers and councilors! Provide anyone interested with our website link, or contact us for printed information to distribute.

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A Sopchoppy, Florida resident has been named winner of a prestigious national award for physically challenged hunters. Jay Leonard, paralyzed from the waist down after falling from a tree stand in 1990, was named the “2006 Streamlight Challenged Hunter of the Year” by Buckmasters American Deer Foundation and Streamlight, a maker of quality flashlights based out of Pennsylvania. The award is given each year to an outstanding disabled outdoors person who has overcome great obstacles in order to participate in the sport of hunting, then applied his or her knowledge and insight to help and inspire others to do the same.

Leonard is a 50-year-old design draftsman who has been a hunter for 35 years. He has placed six deer in the Florida Buck Registry, including the state’s second-highest-scoring buck for 2005. But a primary consideration for awarding the honor to Leonard was his desire to give back others with disabilities. Leonard is a volunteer for many groups aimed at assisting other challenged hunters and youngsters, and he often holds seminars teaching how to successfully call in and take whitetails.

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