BROOKHAVEN — The Southwest Mississippi Annual Gun Blast to celebrate conservation is week away in Lincoln County. Former MDWFP “Alligator Man” Ricky Flynt will be this year’s guest speaker. 

Each year, the local chapter of the National Deer Association puts on the event as a fundraiser to aid local conservation efforts and to help send a disabled hunter on a hunt of a lifetime. In past years, the event helped kickoff the Lincoln County Wildlife Expo. The Expo will not return until 2025 after cancellations in 2023 and 2024. 

Lincoln Civic Center will host the gun blast on Aug. 22. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the event will last until 9:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased beforehand or at the door. Each ticket purchase comes with gun blast tickets to enter into drawings to win guns and other prizes. Firearms were purchased from local retailers 601 Sports and 51 Gun and Pawn. 

Tickets can be purchased online. 

Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks will have staff at the banquet to answer any questions about deer and habitat management. 

 

Ticket prices

Single ticket, $100 comes with 1 ticket and $100 in gun blast tickets. 

Couples ticket, $175 with 2 tickets and $100 in gun blast tickets. 

Couples sponsor table, $300 with 2 tickets, a sponsor gift, $400 in gun blast tickets. 

Typical table, $500 with 8 tickets, sponsor gift and $700 in gun blast tickets. 

Non-typical table, $1,000 with 8 tickets, sponsor gift and $1,500 in gun blast tickets.