Come and join us!!

Awards Night and exhibition for the 23rd Annual Cola Blanca Big Buck Contest

Saturday May 15,2010

Laredo Civic Center Ballroom

Doors open at 5:30

Fun for the whole family

Free food and drinks, Door Prizes,

Auctions items, etc.

Calling all hunters! Don't let that venison go to waste, donate your harvest to the "Bucks for Bethany" program and help those in need. All donations go directly to Bethany House of Laredo, so stop by Ruiz Custom Meats and buy your ticket on your way back from your next hunting trip.

2010 Contest Guide out now!!

Any questions or comments, please call

(800) 292-2122 or email ricardo@laredochamber.com.

1st, 2nd AND 3rd place trophies and jackets for every buck category!

Jackets for 160 + bucks and embroidered shirts for 140-160 B&C bucks! All children entered collect prizes!

This website has been visited

times since November 3, 2005.

The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department reports that with approximately 915,000 hunters, Texas ranks second in the nation for number of people engaged in hunting. It adds that these hunters spend annually over 4.5 billion. For this reason in 1986 the Laredo Chamber of Commerce decided to organize the Cola Blanca Big Buck Contest. This event was designed to encourage the safe harvesting of wildlife and the safe and lawful use of firearms; but, primarily the contest was charged with the mission of supporting the local economy.

Over the last 23 years, the Cola Blanca Big Buck Contest has risen to become one of the best recognized hunting contests in the state. With support of Webb County and the City of Laredo, members of the Laredo Chamber's Cola Blanca Committee travel across the state to participate in hunting trade shows and promotional events. Cola Blanca ads appear regularly in Texas and regional magazines and television broadcasts.

The success of Cola Blanca can only be rated by the growing number of registrations recorded annually by the Laredo Chamber of Commerce. Contest participants hail from different parts of the state and from areas of the country as distant as the states of New York and Minnesota. Ranch leases, retail stores, hunting stores, outfitters, hotels, restaurants, even welding shops, all benefit from the economic impact generated by local and out of town hunting enthusiasts.

The Laredo Chamber of Commerce is proud to be the home of the

Cola Blanca Big Buck Contest.

Any questions or comments, please call (800) 292-2122 or email ricardo@laredochamber.com.

TITLE SPONSOR

OF THE WELCOME HUNTERS PARTY

AND AWARDS BANQUET

Our Generous Sponsors:

DIAMOND

PLATINUM

LaMantia Family / Budweiser

GOLD

IBC Bank

Southern Distributing

SILVER

Capital Farm Credit

Falcon International Bank

La Copa Ranch

IBC Zapata

Commerce Bank

Shaw Sunland Fabricators

BRONZE

Killam Oil Company

BRASS

Dr. Norman Speer

Texas Community Bank

PRIZE SPONSOR

160 + CLUB

Neel Title Corporation

Hunter's Club

(140-159 7/8)

Jiffy Lube #2439

Scoring Locations:

*Laredo Discount Metals II

10116 Mines Rd. / F.M. 1472

Laredo, Texas

956-712-0039

*Laredo Ranch Heights

2215 Laredo St.

Laredo, Texas

956-723-8081

*Laredo Country Store-Purina

3911 Bob Bullock Loop

Laredo, Texas

956-722-7500

*Cola Blanca Scoring Location in Dilley

DF&G Wildlife Supplies

350 South Main

830-965-1622 - Tel.

Dilley, Texas

*Cola Blanca On Call Scoring

Peter Gonzalez

(956) 251-3787