I have never won any tags or hunts, but at local chapter Ducks Unlimited and Pheasants Forever banquets in the last 3 years I've won a Weatherby Vanguard rifle, a custom processed half hog, and a Traeger grill. If I tried to count up how much I've spent on raffle tickets and game entries, I am probably only up $500 on winnings the past three years. That's not counting the years of raffles before that where I've come home empty handed, that's just my recent history when I have more to spend at the banquets than $50 on beer.
Are raffles real?
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LuketheDog
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Well, I know you're lying, because I am the unluckiest raffle winner (loser?) in the history of raffles. I think the last thing I won was a $5 duck call lanyard at a Ducks Unlimited event when I was about 17 years old, it cost more than that to get in the door.
44hunter45
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We should start own own raffle.Well, I know you're lying, because I am the unluckiest raffle winner (loser?) in the history of raffles. I think the last thing I won was a $5 duck call lanyard at a Ducks Unlimited event when I was about 17 years old, it cost more than that to get in the door.
Mrs now tells me when in the month we have money for me to buy tickets. Then I don't have to touch my dark money.
BackofBeyond
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If I can’t win a ID Goat tag, I ain’t playing.
44hunter45
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Before @Big Fin locks this thread and revokes my PW I should make it clear that this is a parody thread. HTers are outrageously generous folks.
But if your website offers landowner tags for sale, I'm not buying anything from you.
He raised enough money to buy a high capacity vehicle for a family doing foster care.
But if your website offers landowner tags for sale, I'm not buying anything from you.
I saw a video from comedian Michael Jr. where he sold thousands of printed show tickets for the "No Show" event. Each had printed on the back, "This is a ticket to a show that will not happen. But this is not a tax deduction. You are actually paying for a ticket."
He raised enough money to buy a high capacity vehicle for a family doing foster care.
I feel a lot of my fellow losers pain/ all the banquets I’ve gone to over the years and the best thing I’ve ever got drawn for is a general ticket after everything is picked over so I end up with a S or XXXXL shirt or a coozy. Not for lack of effort. I’d hate to guess the amount of money I’ve pissed away (donated to a good cause). There was a Pheasants Forever banquet that had an engraved golden boy. I think there was 30 chances I spent $500 to buy several chances, nope.
Fast forward to me being older and realizing I’m a born loser, I just give my wife all the cash at whatever banquet we’re at and let her buy tickets and draw. She’s won smokers, guns, ect. She wins something pretty decent wherever we are. She’s a winner, I’m a loser. It’s that simple.
Fast forward to me being older and realizing I’m a born loser, I just give my wife all the cash at whatever banquet we’re at and let her buy tickets and draw. She’s won smokers, guns, ect. She wins something pretty decent wherever we are. She’s a winner, I’m a loser. It’s that simple.
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I’m slightly terrified that someday I will win one of oaks sheep scratchers and will actually have to put on pants and trade my bespoke house slippers for bootsWell, I know you're lying, because I am the unluckiest raffle winner (loser?) in the history of raffles. I think the last thing I won was a $5 duck call lanyard at a Ducks Unlimited event when I was about 17 years old, it cost more than that to get in the door.
westbranch
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I won a hand carved diamond willow hiking stick at boy scout day camp back in the late 90s. Just name in the hat out of several 100 kids. 20 yrs later I was back in MN and went to breakfast at a local cafe with my dad and after getting introduced to one old guy visiting from a neighboring town he said, "hey didn't you win one of my hiking sticks a few years back?" Not sure how the heck he would have remembered that.
Nothing since then and I put into a several different online and local raffles for fundraisers.
Nothing since then and I put into a several different online and local raffles for fundraisers.
BackofBeyond
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I’m slightly terrified that someday I will win one of oaks sheep scratchers and will actually have to put on pants and trade my bespoke house slippers for boots
Let's be real... you're man-servant will put your boots on for you.
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More avid-indoorsman less bond villain
RobertD
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When I was fresh out of high school, I loved DU banquets. Over the course of two years I went to three banquets and won three framed prints, a big wooden cutting board, something else I'm forgetting, and a small Yeti cooler.
One of the prints is of some banking pintails and it's actually split into two frames. My favorite of all the things I've won at those banquets, they've been hanging in the same spot in my house for like eight years.
One of the prints is of some banking pintails and it's actually split into two frames. My favorite of all the things I've won at those banquets, they've been hanging in the same spot in my house for like eight years.
44hunter45
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Well, between RMEF and Whitetails Unlimited banquets I've picked up 5 guns, a ladder stand, a couple nice signed and numbered prints. One other dinner I went to I won a nice print. I RELUCTANTLY brought it home because I had a choice between it and a bear hunt. I was already going on an elk hunt and decided 2 hunts that close together with the limited cash available was not a good thing.
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marshman
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You are not alone.
I have never won at a raffle.
I have never won anything at a banquet.
Never won a gift drawing of any kind at all.
After about 4 decades of trying I don't anymore at all.
Nick87
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Won an original model 12 that has never been shot when was like 19 maybe. It still hasn't been shot and probably never will. Stays in the safe as an investment for the kids.
LuketheDog
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Well, I know you're lying, because I am the unluckiest raffle winner (loser?) in the history of raffles. I think the last thing I won was a $5 duck call lanyard at a Ducks Unlimited event when I was about 17 years old, it cost more than that to get in the door.
Well boys, looks like raffles are real and my luck has turned! I've got a Weaver rifle coming my way
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