HUNT OF A LIFETIME FOUNDATION

It began with a mother’s determination to make her son’s dream of going on a Canadian moose hunt come true. Tina Pattison’s son Matt was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. Tina knew if she was going to give her son this gift she had little time left. She began by making a call to the Make-A-Wish Foundation only to learn that after intense harassment from animal-rights groups when it granted an Alaskan brown bear hunt, the foundation no longer granted those types of requests. Still Tina would not give up.

Call after call turned up little results until finally she contacted the Pittsburgh chapter of Safari Outfitters and received a glimmer of hope. In August of 1998 an outfitter, Clayton Grosso, based in Nordegg, Alberta, Canada, agreed to fulfill Matt’s dream. And the adventure was on.

The following year Matt lost his battle to cancer.

Determined to keep their son’s memory alive and help famlies avoid the difficulty they have faced in fulfilling a dream, Tina and Matt’s father Chester started the Hunt of a Lifetime Foundation in August 1999. The Pattison family knows first hand about the  pain and suffering not only of losing a loved one to a terrible disease but of being shut out of opportunities by organizations set up to make dreams come true for all but those who wish to hunt and fish.

Like all foundations of this type, your help and support is greatly needed. Financial support, volunteer work and making contact with hunting opportunities, no assistance is too small. 

For more information contact  Tina Pattison, President, 6297 Buffalo Road, Harborcreek, PA 16421 or visit www.huntofalifetime.org.  

Days-even minutes-can mean the difference between a terminally ill person fulfilling his or her dream or going out of this life still wishing.