jeudi 6 février 2014

About Bird Hunts On Pheasant Hunting Lodges

By Jerri Perry


People who expect a rough outdoor experience at pheasant hunting lodges are in for a big surprise. This is not the kind of place where one camps out in tents or sleeping bags around a campfire, cooking the day's catch complemented with canned food. These are luxury lodges with well-equipped and spacious cottages, chefs to prepare sumptuous meals, and guides to help guests on the hunt.

But not all lodges are the same, and each one offers a different kind of hunting or shooting experience. Some will have pens of doves, pheasants, chukar and quails, and release the birds timed to help hunters who simply want to aim and shoot. There's no tracking or flushing involved, and all the shooter has to do is lock and load, wait for a flock of birds to be released, and then fire into them.

Shooting raised birds is relatively easy and a good catch is virtually guaranteed. But it's more of a target practice kind of thing that's very different from the real art of tracking birds in the wild with the help of pointers and then being able to aim and shoot quickly just after flushing out a covey. A lodge that offers such an experience is considered as the real deal.

Most lodges have the same luxury cottages and provide all the same modern comforts, meals and amenities that guests are used to in upscale hotels. Many will even provide all the hunting gear and training too, if required. Some will also offer to handle the permits and licenses required for hunters to be in compliance with local regulations.

However, the real deal that sets a lodge apart from the rest of the crowd is the kind of land it has and the wild birds it attracts. It must have natural advantages that local and migratory birds need, such as woodlands, marshes, ponds, rovers, lakes, brooks and streams. If the land is blessed with such resources, groups of hunters can easily hit their bag limits in no time.

The location also affects the topography, which in turn makes a big difference for bird hunts. Some lodges are set in the vast openness of prairie grasslands, while others are surrounded by mountainous foothills and rocky ridges. Those aiming for migratory birds will do well to look for a place close to the coast where there are plenty of marshlands.

Most every lodge that invites guests for hunting trips offers package deals. These are usually affordable weekend stays or 3-5 day luxury packages that are all-inclusive. Guests do not have to worry about a thing, and can focus all their attention and energy on finding and shooting birds.

The thing that most people remember afterwards about pheasant hunting lodges is the incredible rush and thrill of the kill. But the meals are quite memorable too, since the food is from the fresh catch that the hunter has literally put on the table. The satisfaction is doubled because it's expertly cooked into mouth-watering bird meat dishes by expert chefs.




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