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Texas Trophy Hunters Association

San Antonio, TX

      Ribbon cutting can be a bit routine, with usual VIPs and the over-sized scissors. The Texas Trophy Hunters Association (TTHA) showed courage by inviting Governor Rick Perry to cut the ribbon as its new home office, Using a bow and arrow, with a crowd spectators close by.
     The Mar. 9 “invitation only” ceremony gave hunting enthusiasts a first look at the rustic style TTHA headquarters located near Loop 1604 and Highway 281.

     “Its an honor to be here and commemorate the opening of the new home for the magazine, television show, an all things hunting, as I refer to it,” said Gov. Perry. “These kinds of events are the ones I really enjoy attending, partly because I get to dress this way and secondly, because I like to hang around people who love getting up before dawn, putting on a pair of muddy boots and sitting out in a deer blind with your best friends. I can’t think of a bunch of better people to hang around with than hunters.
     “I have been a proud life member of the Texas Trophy Hunters Association for quite a few years. As I drive across the state, it’s pretty hard to go anywhere behind a pick up truck that has not got that emblem – that big beautiful, drop tine
skull. It may be just about any kind of vehicle. I pulled up behind a BMW with a gun rack in the back the other day – only in Texas! Before introducing Gov. Perry, Gen. Leroy Sisco, TTHA CEO, gave a history of the association.
    

 

     “Thirty-one years ago Jerry Johnston, founder and president, had a dream and today we have a company. In the early ‘70s as a young man, he had a vision to start an organization that over time would help to improve the quality and quantity of whitetail deer in Texas.”
     From its early beginnings in a mobile home, the association now will operate its publication, television shows and hunting trade shows from a Texas-style log cabin building part of a 20,000-sf complex with leased office spaces. Gen. Sisco introduced Ralph Bullard, the project’s contractor from Ralph Bullard Construction Inc., Addison, TX.
     “Ralph sent me a letter and said, ‘Thank you for introducing me to Texas Trophy Hunter.’ I said to him, ‘You’re going to get a bid.’ He said to me, ‘No, I’m going to build it.’ I said again, ‘No you’re going to get a bid.’ He said again, ‘No sir, I’m going to build it.’
     “Then, when we got the bids, we called him and said, ‘Ralph, you’re going to build it.’”
     To close the ceremony, Gov. Perry shot an arrow, bursting a balloon that connected two ribbons. The arrow fell just to the left of the bull’s eye, bursting the balloon. Before he drew the bow, he said, “And Leroy, I want to say a special thanks to you for finding a balloon that big.”

    When Gov. Perry asked if he was going to get the arrow back, Jerry Johnston said, “No way!”-kf

 

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