CRSC Mission:
Recognizing that God has entrusted hunters/managers to be stewards of the land,
the mission of Crains Run Sportsmen’s Club is to conduct quality wildlife management
practices on our leased properties that improve the wildlife populations and habitat
through better land management and optimizing nutritional requirements. We strive to
enable hunting members and their families to realize greater enjoyment and benefit
from the land and outdoor experience, thus promoting wildlife and land conservation.
We are committed to conducting our club based on Christian principles and in a way
that creates a financially strong organization, highly motivated and satisfied membership.
CRSC History:
CRSC was founded by two avid bow hunters and friends, who shared a vision of giving
back to the sport they so dearly loved, deer & turkey hunting. What began as a conversation
around the campfire during a November bow hunt in 2000 soon became the birth of a small
hunt club devoted to wildlife and land stewardship. The real work began in January 2001
to organize a group of 20 like-minded sportsmen and develop a club charter, rules and by-laws.
In addition, the group set out to find a suitable tract of land to lease that would meet the
clubs criteria for deer, turkey and hopefully waterfowl & upland game habitat. Members were
encouraged by the founders to become active in the QDMA, an organization devoted to the
Quality Deer Management philosophy, and attend regional QDMA events whenever possible.
QDM became the fabric of CRSC as members embraced the belief that deer herds could be better
managed and higher quality hunting experiences could be achieved by taking a proactive role.
Developing the club charter, rules and by-laws was easy, it took almost 2 years of searching
and visiting a great deal of properties to find the land they desired. In late 2002 a tract
of land, nearly 1200 acres in size, became available and appeared to be exactly what the
club was searching for and in 2003 the lease agreement was signed. Before the ink was dry
members began working on habitat improvements, planting food plots, creating a campsite,
cleaning up trash dumps, identifying and marking the boundary lines and visiting neighboring
landowners. Becoming friends with our local and adjacent landowners was, and still is, key
to survival of any hunt club. CRSC also strives to get our neighbors involved with the club
and QDM and make QDM a part of their land management goals. These new friend-ships lead to
new hunt club members and allowed our hunt club to lease addition lands next to our current
tract. This expanded habitat and hunting opportunities and protected some of our access
points to the property. Club members helped neighboring landowners with projects such as
boundary line identification and posting their properties to thwart trespassing and poaching
activities. Members also conducted routine work details and trash pick-up along area roads
and highways. Youth hunting activities have been promoted each hunting season and members
help out whenever they can to promote getting young hunters involved in the great sport of
hunting. For two years in a row CRSC has received the “Stewardship Award” from the timber
company who owns the land the club leases. This is testament to the hard work and dedication
our club members put into the organization.
Today, CRSC is still a small close group of 20 members and a hunt club dedicated to QDM.
We believe God charged us with the task of being “Stewards of the Land”.
Please
contact us if you
would like more information.
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