NATCHEZ — After giving one child the thrill of a lifetime back in December, the group Outdoors Without Limits is hoping that a benefit dinner will allow them to give that opportunity to more people in the Miss-Lou.

Outdoors Without Limits is a non-profit organization that seeks to give people who are ill, disabled or from broken homes the opportunity to have an experience in the outdoors, whether it be fishing, hunting or riding a four-wheeler.

In December, the group took Austin Dungan deer hunting on Rifle Point in Concordia Parish.

Dungan, who is just 8-years-old was born with a heart condition and had three heart surgeries as well as an amputated leg.

He killed his first deer, a five-point, on the hunt, much to the delight of his father Derrick, who is a volunteer with the organization.

“We set the hunt up a month before but he had no idea where we were going,” Dungan said. “To get in the stand with my little boy who had just come back from heart surgery in August was great. To see his face when he turned around and said ‘Daddy, I smoked it’ brought big crocodile tears to my eyes.”

Jimmy Allgood, host of the Redneck Adventures television show and also a volunteer with Outdoors Without Limits, said the group wants to bring that look to more people in the area.

“Life-changing experiences is what we’re all about,” Allgood said. “The look on a child’s face when he’s fishing and that cork goes under water or he’s riding that four-wheeler for the first time is something I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world. Austin is the poster child for the Miss-Lou chapter. That was our inaugural event and it was priceless.”

Since that hunt was a great success, the group wants to do more, and it will start with a benefit dinner on May 15 at the Natchez Community Center. The doors will open at 5 p.m. Outdoors Without Limits founder Kirk Thomas, himself confined to a wheelchair after a hunting accident, will be the speaker.

Tickets to the event are $25 per person and the cost to join the organization is $25 per year.

“The purpose of this dinner is to get people on board with us,” Allgood said. “This is something that everyone in the Miss-Lou can get behind. It is a great cause and it’s a great chance to be a part of history in the Miss-Lou.”