Capable Partners Inc.

We are looking for folks to volunteer in the Capable Partners Booth at the Deer and Turkey Classic this coming weekend, March 8, 9, 10. Shifts are Mar 9 5 PM-7 PM and Mar 10 1:30 PM-5 PM.

Workers get free admission and can come early or stay late to see all that the Classic has to offer!

Contact Jerry Schrank via phone (952-913-7044) or email him at [email protected] to get scheduled.

Thank you!

Members, we could still use some help with the booth at the Minnesota Safari Club International Expo this coming Friday and Saturday (February 23 & 24) for the following shifts:

• Friday shift is 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM
• Saturday shifts are either 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM, or 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM

If you volunteer to help you will have time to tour the rest of the exhibits.

The Expo is at the Marriott Minneapolis Northwest, 7025 Northland Drive North, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota 55428 (Boone Ave and I-694/94).

Contact Jerry Schrank if you are able to help out via phone 952-913-7044 or email [email protected].

Thank you!

Our annual Member's Banquet Raffle is live! Each ticket is $5. To get tickets to buy and/or sell, please message us. The drawing for the items listed below (unfortunately Facebook's community standards won't allow our picture of the items) will occur at the Banquet on Saturday, March 2nd.

- Browning X-bolt Medallion 6.5 Creedmoor (high grade walnut and rosewood stock, gold trigger, engraving) with Leupold VX-3HD 3.5x10 scope
- Raven 10 Black x-bow
- R***r American .30-06 Bolt Action
- Stoeger M3500 12 ga. Semi
- Wi******er SXP 20 ga Semi
- Bass Fishing Combo: 13 Fishing Omen Baitcast Rod w/ 13 Fishing Modus Baitcast Reel
- Walleye Fishing Combo: St. Croix Avid 7' Medium-Fast Rod w/ Daiw Revros LT 3000-C

We wanted to give a big thank you to our friends at Capra's Sporting Goods for sponsoring this raffle for us!!

Prizes can be exchanged for store credit at Capras.

We regret to inform you that our Ice Fishing Extravaganza on Thursday is cancelled due to unsafe conditions on the ice.

We look forward to the event next year with Clam Outdoors and Disabled Outdoorsmen USA. Your partnership with us has been tremendous over the years!

Thank you Prairie Sportsman for featuring us on your show! You captured a lot of great stories and footage from our deer hunters in Lac Qui Parle.

Prairie Sportsman | From Lac qui Parle to Crapola | Season 12 | Episode 4 | Pioneer PBS Annual deer hunt for people with disabilities, Crapola made in Ely and Split Rock Studios.

In case you missed the email sent out, the USF&WS has given us special access to hunt the south half of the Louisville Swamp Unit (south of the Louisville Swamp Boulder) with shotguns during the second weekend of MN Gun Deer season. It is in the MN Valley National Wildlife Refuge.

If you’re disabled and interested, please message us to sign up (the deadline is October 23rd). We’ll draw the winners on October 24th. Any of you that don’t draw will receive a preference point for the next season we can hunt there.

If you’re an able body and willing to help, please let us know.

Pics are from our members that have been on some great hunts already this season at different locations. We highly recommend signing up for all the deer hunts we have going—a lot of brown is going down!

Here is a link to the wonderfully done Hometown Heroes segment the Minnesota Vikings put together and showcased at their home opener last Sunday. SKOL Vikings and cheers to all of you that have made our organization so impactful to our community!

TB - Hometown Hero - Capable Partners.mp4 Shared with Dropbox

We had quite the shoot at LeBlanc's Rice Creek Hunting & Rec. on Saturday! 27 members dropped 124 birds and after quite a shoot, feasted on some great cooking by our Secretary, Jerry Schrank. Thanks to all that came out, our volunteers that helped, and LaBlanc’s Rice Creek for hosting (many commented how great the quality of birds that were provided)!

We wanted to share some incredible news: Capable Partners was recognized today by the Minnesota Vikings as a “Hometown Hero” at the game today. We want to thank our members, volunteers, donors, and sponsors—without your selflessness and generosity, we wouldn’t be here today.

Evan Newton and Brian Shiver were our representatives at the game. They mentioned they “had several people approach them asking about Capable Partners and what we do based on our participation at the game today.”

The Vikings put together a video showcasing our organization that they’ll send to us. Once we get it from them, we’ll be sure to share with all of you.

Calling all first-timers, aspiring, and devout waterfowl hunters! We're less than two weeks away from waterfowl opener. Please reach out to the coordinators listed on our calendar, sign up online, or DM us if you'd like to go hunt with us.

Here is the list of winners for our Game Fair raffle (first multiple item winner!). We wanted to thank Game Fair for giving us a spot to help advertise our organization, Capra's Sporting Goods for helping make this raffle such a great success, our selfless volunteers that as that promoted us, all of you for your dedicated support. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Mille Lacs is still going hot! Captain Brian Shriver put Jim Maas, Dan Koich, and Stan Koich on the walleyes. Twenty-five were boated and a couple made the slot to bring home for dinner tonight.

Thanks for sharing the pics, Stan!

Come one, come all! Our Game Fair Raffle Tickets are available to buy and sell.

They’re going for $20 per ticket for 20 exceptional items. We wanted to give a big thanks to our friends at Capra's Sporting Goods for sponsoring this!

Call Brian Shriver (612-670-1912)
or Evan Newton (612-597-1600) to get your tickets.

Our pontoon on Mille Lacs is catching WALLEYES and Small mouth Bass.

We’re nearly a week away from Capra's Sporting Goods colossal reopening party where the proceeds from their gun raffles will go directly to Capable Partners Inc. Come check out our generous partner’s store while enjoying live music, food, drinks, prizes, and a whole heck of a lot of fun!

We are excited about this year's events, which we are putting on the online calendar as soon as they are confirmed. We will have a
printable calendar soon.

The pheasant hunt in Menomonie is April 15 and the turkey shoot is May 7. We start our fishing season at Prior Lake on June 3. We also have a Mille Lacs launch scheduled that evening. The next week is trout and muskie. The week after that, we have another Mille Lacs launch.

Sign up online and join us for these great events!

We look forward to seeing you at the Annual Banquet/Meeting/ Fundraiser on Saturday, March 4th.

If you haven't registered yet, contact Evan Newton (612-597-1600) immediately as we need to get the final numbers for the caterer.

Banquet details are at

Capable Partners Home - Capable Partners

Capable Partners Inc. Would like to thank Clam Outdoors for putting on the Clam Extravaganza that helped get 30 Disabled individuals out ice fishing. It's always a great event. Thank you again for all the work you do!!!

We would like to give an update on the Clam Extravaganza. NO VEHICLES will be allowed to drive out on the lake. We will be shuttling people out by fourwheeler, side by side and trailers.

Hello Capable Partners members, we are pleased to announce that we will be Teaming up with Clam Outdoor and the Disabled Outdoorsmen MN chapter to bring you our Annual Clam Ice Extravaganza!!
It will be held on East Rush Lake this year on February 9th from 11 a.m -4 p.m.
Contact Nate Sjolin @ 763-286-9086 or Darren Dorn @ 763-301-0538 by February 1st to get registered.

Hello all ice fishermen/ fisherwomen we know everyone is eager to get out in the Ice Castle fish houses. We still don't have enough ice to safely get them out. The ice is ranging from 7-10 inches on most metro lakes. With this snow it will slow the ice making for drivable ice. We want to make sure we make it as safe as possible for you to be out there enjoying yourselves. We let you all know as soon as we get safe ice and the houses are out on the lakes.

We’re less than two weeks away from the waterfowl season closing, Sunday, November 27th. Let us know by the end of day this Wednesday (11/16), the date(s) you’d like to get out with us in the MN Valley so we can plan accordingly.

One of our groups dropped a banded, drake wood duck on opening weekend. So, when the group doesn’t know who made the shot, we had them draw straws. The long straw went the distance—going to Mike Brown, the seventh of eight hunters that drew.

Mike joyfully accepted the bird and immediately made his way over to our youngest attendee, Aiden. With outstretched arm, Mike extended it to Aiden sharing how he earned it. This is one of the many reasons why our org is so great: because of our incredible members and selfless volunteers. Thank you Mike and all that made the day so special!

P.S. We have openings for waterfowl hunting. Please let us or one of our coordinators know if you’d like us to reserve a spot for you—we’d love to have you out!

We recently sent some of our members up for a sandhill crane hunt to see if it’s viable to make an annual hunt. It sure seems like it’ll be on the calendar from here on out! Pics courtesy of Darrin Gotsch and Paul Wiik.

Hello Everyone we are pleased to announce
the winners of the GameFair Raffle

1. Browning Maxus 2 -- Garrett Laine
2. Kimber Custom .45 Acp -- Gary Wallenhurst
3. Bergera B-14 Hunter -- Blake Spears
4. Alex Pro Apf-15 -- Bob Lillledahl
5. Mossberg Silver Reserve -- Steve Trutwin
6. Calm Yukon XL -- Tyler Overly
7. Savage 220 -- Bill Martin
8. Ravin R10 Crossbow -- Ed VanDeventer
9. Surelock Cascade Gun Safe --Tony Jaenish
10. Stoeger M3000 -- Trever Lindberg
11. Smith & Weson M69 -- Mike Hanson
12. Savage 110 Apex Storm XP -- Chad Willmarth
13. FN 509 -- Edie Wagner
14. R***r PC Carbine -- John Charles
15. R***r 10/22 -- Todd Luttman
16. Wi******er SXP -- Autumn Stumpf
17. CVA optima V2 -- Holly Hackley
18. Wi******er XPR -- Aaron Vogt
19. Strikemaster 40V -- Clint Hedlund

Evan Newton caught a bluegill on our Lake Pulaski outing.

Hi Everyone, are you looking for a way to help support this great organization get everyone outdoors! Here's your chance! We have our Game Fair Raffle tickets available. We expanded our prizes this year to 19. You read that we have 19 great prizes. You will be entered for all 19 of them. Each ticket is $20.
Contact Nate Sjolin at 763-286-9086 to get one.

Hello members it's time for some fishing. Our first Mille Lacs fishing outing is Saturday, May 21, 2022, 4:00 PM until 10:00 PM. Leaving from Nitti's Hunters Point Resort on a 52 ft pontoon boat,
equipment and bait provided, dinner provided.

Contact one of the coordinators to sign up

Violet Foster
763-444-4427

Or

Jeff Jacobson
612-412-2957 (c)
[email protected]

The 35 mph sustained winds with temps in the 20s were more like a waterfowl shoot than pheasant, but 32 of our members weathered the cold, bringing down 83 pheasants last Saturday at our tower shoot. We’d like to thank Major Avenue Hunt Club for graciously hosting us, Greg Hance for coordinating, Jerry Schrank for cooking up a warm, delicious lunch for us, all our able bodied volunteers that helped move our disabled around, and the five pups (Drake, Sarge, Xena, Zephr, and Jace) that worked the cover so great to retrieve our birds.

📸s by Chad Fix