Caroline Pruitt


Caroline Pruitt is the Safari Club International (SCI) and Cabela’s Young Hunter Award recipient for 2010.  She lives in Nacogdoches, Texas where she is a straight A honor student at Martinsville High School.  She was born in 1994 and is an active member of SCI, a life member of the NRA and has held many leadership positions for her local 4-H Shotgun Sports club.


Locally, Caroline supports the SCI Piney Woods Chapter where she promotes Sportsmen Against Hunger and other Humanitarian Service programs.  Caroline hosted two Sensory Safaris at her farm this year for the Stephen F. Austin State University's Camp Independence for the visually impaired. 


Hunting and conservation opportunities have taken Caroline to four continents where she has taken over 50 species using rifle, shotgun, pistol, compound bow, crossbow, and muzzleloader.  She has earned the First Pinnacle of Achievement award with both rifle and bow, taking 15 SCI Top Ten trophies, including three number ones.


Caroline is a proponent of fair chase, ethical hunting.  Her greatest conservation accomplishment was participating in a hunt in West Africa where the value of conserving the forest animals through sports hunting was demonstrated to the indigenous forest villagers.  Here, she also shared a Safari Care Blue Bag with the local villagers. 


A few of her proudest achievements include; darting a Rhino in South Africa, successfully harvesting a Bongo on a chase-libre hunt, and taking a large aggressive Pacific Coastal black bear with her bow on a hunt filmed for TV.


Caroline thanks her mentors and looks forward to stepping up as a mentor to other young hunters by encouraging them to pursue a lifelong hobby in the wonderful sport of hunting.