The 2011 Indiana Predator Challenge was another successful, safe and fun event for all in attendance! This year we once again expanded the IPC event and its reach across the community. Despite a week full of blizzards, ice storms and power outages nearly 90% of our hunters made it to Friday’s sign-in meeting and looked over the field of competitors and some of the prizes they’d be working for.
(Some prize deliveries were delayed by weather)
Friday evening’s fair weather made way for overnight sleet and snow. Teams scattered out in areas spanning as much as 100 miles in route to areas they’d scouted previously or located with aerial photos. One of the first reports back to headquarters was that of a bobcat, protected in Indiana, coming in on a team’s 2nd stand of the hunt. Lifetime residents of Indiana, this was the crews first encounter with a bobcat!
Later in the evening a couple of coyotes fell, one gray fox was put down overnight, and four teams found themselves on the scoreboard.