Lamar Hosts Annual Two Shot this Week

The 45th Annual Southeast Colorado Two Shot Goose Hunt will be kicking off its activities on Wednesday, November 30 with the President’s Reception. The public is welcome to attend and greet the hunters that will be traveling from all over the United States to Lamar.

The reception will be held at 6:30pm in the Empire Room at the Cow Palace Inn.  Join us for a live and silent auction while you enjoy free cocktails & hors d’ oeuvres. You must be 21 years of age or older to attend.  For a detailed list of the three day event, check out www.twoshot.org.

Celebrities that will be attending the Two Shot Goose Hunt this year are Hall of Fame inductee in 2008, Richard Michael “Goose” Gossage, a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. During his 22-year baseball career, he pitched from 1972-1994 for nine different teams, spending his best years with the New York Yankees and San Diego Padres. Ralph Tamm, former football great, played ten NFL seasons from 1990–1999 and was a member of two Super Bowl championship teams: the first from Super Bowl XXVI with the Washington Redskins, the other with the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIX. Another football star, Dave Studdard, former tackle that played with the Denver Broncos from 1979-1988.

Lamar, known as the “Goose Capitol of the World”, is pleased to be hosting this wildlife event for the last 45 years. We thank the volunteers, civic clubs, businesses and the community that have supported our efforts.  THE SOUTHEAST COLORADO TWO SHOT HABITAT AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION, INC. was formed in 1991 for the specific and primary purpose to preserve, protect and improve wildlife habitat and other wildlife resources for the benefit of the public in the State of Colorado and to foster support through education programs and public media designed to increase public knowledge of wildlife.

For more information, please visit www.twoshot.org or call Rose Ann Yates at 719.940.7424