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Beaver Island Game Club Hunter’s Banquet, 1974

Also 1974 Game Club hunters banquet · 1974 Hunter’s Banquet

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TypeEvent
Date1974-11-17
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1974-11-17
Kind
Conservation
Where
Beaver Island
Participants
Bud Roache (participant)
Carried out by
Beaver Island Game Club
Eras
Modern era
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conservationcommunityheritage
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The Beaver Island Game Club hosted its annual Hunter’s Banquet on November 17, 1974, serving nearly 150 hunters. The report highlights Bud Roache’s five-person Battle Creek group and a twelve-point buck dressed at 202 pounds.

Evidence and limits

The article reports the banquet and hunting outcomes but not a complete attendee roster, financial ledger, or final deer-season total. The promised total is not backfilled from a later issue here.

Sources

  1. Reports the annual banquet on November 17, a roast-beef, mashed-potatoes, salad, and apple-pie menu, nearly 150 hunters served, and a bucks-only season expected to produce a total in the sixties. It highlights Bud Roache’s Battle Creek group of five going five for five, including a twelve-point buck dressed at 202 pounds; it does not provide a receipt ledger, full attendee list, or final season statistics.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1974-11_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eight-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1974-11_Beaver-Beacon

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Game Club Hunter’s Banquet, 1974”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-game-club-hunters-banquet-1974/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 1974, “Game News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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