The inaugural Safari Club International Low Country Chapter Wheelchair Hunt will be held Oct. 28-29.

The event, to be held each year in the ACE Basin area, will be hosted by the Nemours Wildlife Foundation at Nemours Plantation located between Beaufort and Green Pond on S.C. Highway 17.

Sgt. Lynwood Kearse III and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR), and Bobby Harrell of the South Carolina Disabled Sportsmen Association are working with the Low Country Chapter to make the event a success.

SCDNR will distribute the applications and choose the 15 lucky hunters for this year's event. Sgt. Kearse will furnish pop-up ground blinds and shooting sticks for the hunters. He and several fellow SCDNR officers will be on hand to help manage the hunt. Harrell has secured additional hunting properties close to Nemours Plantation to accommodate wheelchair hunters.

The event will begin on Oct. 27 when volunteers will assemble at Nemours Plantation to pick up the pop-up blinds and set them up in predetermined locations on the participating properties.

On Oct. 28, the hunters and volunteers will gather at the Main House in Nemours Plantation. Lunch will be served at noon. After lunch, volunteers will transport the hunters to their blinds and help them get settled for the afternoon hunt. At dark, the volunteers will pick up the hunters (and hopefully their deer) and transport them back to Nemours Plantation where a hot dinner will be served. The deer will be processed by volunteers and hung in the cooler at Nemours.

Details: Mark Peterson 757-0001 or go online at scilowcountry.org.