Long-time Ladner resident Shannon Lansdowne has made it to the finals of the 2016 Extreme Huntress Competition.
Lansdowne, who grew up in Ladner but moved to Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island in 2013, will be joining five other finalists at the famed 777 Ranch in Texas next month where they will compete in a series of challenges to test their physical fitness, shooting, tracking and hunting skills.
The competition is all caught on film and then broadcast online at www.extremehuntress.com over 13 weeks.
Each week viewers vote for who they think should win the title. The online voting results will be combined with head-to-head skills competition and judges’ scores.
The episodes will begin airing this fall and online voting will begin Oct. 1.
“The Extreme Huntress Competition continues to set the bar for serious outdoorswomen, while at the same time providing positive role models for women who are new to hunting, shooting and other traditional outdoor sports,” according to the competition website.
To enter the contest, each woman had to submit an essay describing why she is an extreme huntress. A panel of six judges considered all the submissions and chose the top-20 to move on to the semi-finals.
Lansdowne made the cut and then made it to the finals based on a combination of judges’ scores and online voting.
Lansdowne is one of two B.C. women who made it to the final. The other four finalists all hail from the United States.
Lansdowne was introduced to hunting at a young age. Her father was an outfitter and owned 10,000 square miles of hunting territory on the province’s central coast where he would guide clients on hunts.
She also worked for a time as a hunting guide.
