game farms

[bucketmouth64]

Any recommendations on a pheasant game farm hunt in the east central area that doesn't require a membership?

[bhs91]

Little Moran's Staples, awesome cover and they give you a trial day to cehck it out.

[Matt Breuer]

McCollum's Hunting Preserve, Bejou, MN.

[Tom7227]

I thnk the DNR HSOforum has a list of all of the place in the state. May be worth a search there.

[DanH]

Gold Meadows Hunting Preserve - Richmond, Minnesota

[YoMan]

Off topic, but i wanted to know what the "scratch birds" offered by some of these farms meant?

[CJH]

After you get your "limit" of the birds you bought, any additional birds you get are "scratch" birds. They are either wild or left overs from previous hunts.

[YoMan]

Awesome, thanks.. This is a good thread.. Got my 1 year old back from training and need to get her on some birds.. Not too much luck in public fields yet.

[gurkster]

Rocky Bay Hunt Club in the Pine City area is another one.

[CJH]

I think its good practice to get a young dog on a bunch of birds at a game farm. It helped out my lab alot.

[Archerysniper]

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It's a great place to hunt run by great people I just got my new membership on Sat but you don't have to be a member they have the fields setup really nice with lots of cover. As a member you get reduced rates for birds and you can hunt just scratch birds instead of releasing any.

[Mike J]

Anyone ever hunt Glendorado by Princeton?

[Tom7227]

DNR Listed them all at

http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/outdoor_activities/shooting_ranges/shooting_preserves.pdf

[Archerysniper]

Pheasant Ridige in Oglive is the one I use.

[tb7108]

Mike J,

I hunted glendarado a couple times last year, the cover was weak.

They had several choices for fields so maybe the others are better, no membership and the birds were resonable, I think it was 14/15 per bird with a 3 bird min. per hunter.

[bturck]

I'd 2nd Gold Meadows. Joe runs a nice operation out there. My neighbor does quite a lot of guiding for him. Bill

[Musky Buck]

Pheasant Ridge near Ogilvie if you're a traveler a bit Oak Point near Wadena is a good one. Just was there and it was a good quality experience with great owners + I hammered a round of sporting clays.

[Archerysniper]

Hey Musy buck you wouldn't happen to drive a little sports car with that plate saw one this summer that had it.

[JAR JAR]

If you get up north I suggest Bader's in Federal D A M , always a top notch place to go and their fields are pretty natural.

Jar Jar

[mrfish1991]

I think my dad, some of our family friends and I are going to gold meadows on saturday, I will give you a report if I go.

[sparkyaber]

I just hunted on pheasant ridge this last Saturday, and it was a great time. We did not expect much since all of us are extreme novices. In fact, I had not shot a shot gun in 10 years. And for a dog we had my 8 year old lab-springer who had never hunted before. Mike took real good care of us. I highly recommend, and I will return. Very friendly and helpful.

[OutlawTorn]

Try Bear Creek near Hinckley, MN. I had a young pointer who needed some work so I went there in August and again in September. The guy marked all the birds he planted at my request so I could complete some specific training drills.

The cover was very nice and the owners were great. I blew a tire on his property right before the hunt in August and he helped me change it, despite the 85 degree weather.

Chukar were 13/ bird with a 5 bird minimum, pheasant were 17/ bird with 4 bird minimum. Scratch birds were 10.

[mrfish1991]

I went out to a game farm called Rice Creek today and had a blast. It is a members only club but they let us hunt it because our group told them we were thinking about joining so they gave us a trial. I believe they have around 1400 acres of land with lots of different hunting situations. We hunted standing corn rows today. Our guide was excelent and worked 4 dogs very well.

It is a little bit more expensive but its a very nice opperation

It is located near St. Cloud

[DP]

Pheasant Ridge in Ogilve/Mora area, been going there for a few years. Don't need a membership, but those are reasonable if you do decide to go with one. Great people, good variety of cover. I trained my pup there last year, he is doing great on wild birds this year.