{"id":14119,"date":"2012-04-18T13:49:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T18:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=14119"},"modified":"2012-04-18T13:49:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T18:49:31","slug":"larry-and-brenda-potterfield-donate-252000-to-rmef-youth-firearm-endowment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/larry-and-brenda-potterfield-donate-252000-to-rmef-youth-firearm-endowment\/14119\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry and Brenda Potterfield Donate $252,000 to RMEF Youth Firearm Endowment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Winchester Model 1895 Safari Centennial Rifle Set (photo courtesy of the RMEF)<\/p><\/div>\n

Columbia, MO – In their continued efforts to help increase the number of youth involved in hunting<\/em> and shooting<\/em> sports, MidwayUSA owners Larry and Brenda Potterfield recently donated $252,000 to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF)<\/strong> youth firearm<\/em> endowment, a program for supporting shooting<\/em> teams across the United States<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The money donated to the endowment will be used to underwrite 72 Model 1895 Teddy Roosevelt Safari Rifle<\/em> Sets for RMEF<\/strong> chapters across the United States<\/em>. RMEF<\/em> chapters will raffle these sets at their banquets in 2012 and a portion of the proceeds from these rifles will go to support the Scholastic Shooting Trust<\/em> endowment, another program supported by the Potterfield family.<\/p>\n

“The future of wildlife conservation and the promotion of the hunting<\/em> and shooting<\/em> sports lies in the future decisions of the young folks in school today,” said Larry Potterfield. “Supporting organizations like the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation<\/strong> and investing more money in youth programs will allow our future leaders to make these decisions tomorrow and for years to come.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Both rifles in the set are chambered in .405 Winchester<\/strong> caliber and will bear matching serial numbers, a deluxe leather double gun case<\/em>, special edition hang tag, owner’s manual and hardbound copy of “African Game Trails”<\/em> by Teddy Roosevelt<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“We are very grateful for the vision and support Larry and Brenda Potterfield continue to provide RMEF<\/strong> and other conservation<\/em> groups,” said RMEF<\/em> VP of Marketing Steve Decker. “They are truly making a difference for hunting<\/em> and shooting<\/em> sports across the United States<\/em>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more information about the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation<\/strong>, please visit their website<\/a> or call 800-225-5355.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Columbia, MO – In their continued efforts to help increase the number of youth involved in hunting and shooting sports, MidwayUSA owners Larry and Brenda Potterfield recently donated $252,000 to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) youth firearm endowment, a program for supporting shooting teams across the United States. The money donated to the endowment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1587,2401,2400],"class_list":["post-14119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry","tag-midwayusa","tag-rmef-youth-firearm-endowment","tag-rocky-mountain-elk-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}