Ladies Learn to Hunt at the Legends Ranch with Women Go Hunting
Fourteen women were sponsored by SCI’s Women Go Hunting Program (WGH) to deer hunt at the Legends Ranch in Michigan. Many of them hunted for the first time ever. Others had hunted before but never harvested a deer. All 14 women took deer over the four-day event, which is part of the Legends Ranch Learn-to-Hunt Program.
The experience included conservation education at the Wildlife Center at Legends Ranch, firearms training at the onsite shooting range, two days of guided hunting on the 2,000-acre deer preserve, and demonstrations on preparing and cooking venison.
Six of the participants won the hunt at the SCI Convention in Nashville, TN, last January through the free Women Go Hunting Sweepstakes. The others were SCI employees who wanted to experience the thrill and passion for hunting enjoyed by the nearly 50,000 SCI members they serve every day.
Legends Ranch owner Robert Sergi is a strong proponent of conservation education, having provided more than 13,000 children with tours of the Wildlife Center at the Legends Ranch. He has also generously supported WGH, committing to donating another six slots to the Learn to Hunt Program for the upcoming WGH Sweepstakes to be held during the next SCI Convention in Nashville on February 18-21, 2026.
“Women are important to the future of hunting,” says Sergi. “At Legends Ranch, we want to help more women know the joys of hunting and become lifelong hunters.”
WGH will host a booth at the SCI Convention and hold its annual Ladies Mix & Mingle event on Saturday, February 21st. For more information on WGH, contact Barbara Crown at [email protected].