Music and shotguns brought in more than $300,000 for SOX that will aid active duty troops and vets, largely thanks to Tim Montana.
Music and shotguns brought in more than $300,000 for Special Ops Xcursions (SOX) last month. Singer Tim Montana, and a long list of well known friends, came together for the sixth year to raise support for the nonprofit. A group of Green Berets and their hunting buddies created SOX to benefit active-duty Special Operations Forces members and their families. Its mission is to take them from “Fight to Field One Hunt at a Time.”
The “excursions” include hunting, camping, and fishing trips, and range time, as well as family time. Special Ops Xcursions began by aiding eight people in its first year. Today, it helps more than 1,000 spec-ops personnel annually.
Montana & Friends American Thread Concert 2025
The festivities in Nashville began with the intimate Montana & Friends American Thread concert and auction at the City Winery in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Hochstadter’s Slow & Low, one of the event sponsors, greeted guests at the doors with their Proper Old-Fashioned and their Coffee Old-Fashioned cocktails.
I can tell you that if you love an espresso martini you are in for a treat with the latter. The other sponsors included ColorBurst’s Landscapes, Brassfield & Gorrie, Nashville Gun Club, Centurion Stone, Pit Viper, Timberwolf Archery, Miller Scribante, Tomahawk Solutions, Whiskey Bent BBQ, Boswells Golf Cars, The Beached Pig, Future Shirts, Geissele and more.
The event that evening intertwined musical guests and auction items that would have you wishing you were there. Scotty Hasting was the opening musical guest.
He spoke of his time in the Army, including the story of how he was shot 10 times while fighting for his life in Afghanistan. He said music was therapy for him and played a huge part in him making it to where he is now.
Colbie Caillat then took the stage, singing favorites like “Falling For You” and “I’m Here.” She also signed up to skydive in exchange for 100 dives being donated to SOX. Her lyrics left a few tears in the room.
Accomplished singer Craig Morgan, who currently serves in the Army Reserves and is a U.S. Army veteran, came on stage with his wife to accept an award from Brig. Gen. Travis McIntosh: the Order of Saint Michael-Airborne Award.
Auction Benefitting Special Ops Xcursions and More Music
John Hargrove from Whiskey House in Kentucky joined Tim Montana on stage to auction off not one, but two whiskey barrels filled with the winning bidder’s choice of whiskey! The audience went wild bidding until the very end, with the winner donating $21,000 to Special Ops Xcursion. What a win!…