OPEN HUNTING EVENTS

Dear Friends, You are cordially invited to our annual 250-bird Fall Foliage Pheasant Shoot at Pheasant Ridge, in upstate New York, on October 11, 2008 The day will begin at 8:30 a.m. with coffee and doughnuts and a 1000-clay driven-style flurry. After everyone is limbered up, you will draw one of our 12 pegs for the “Continental”shoot. Pheasant Ridge has 12 shooting pegs set in a large and slightly irregular circle laid out on a wooded hillside. The birds are launched (by hand) from the center of the circle. The pegs are in trees or brush so that you cannot see the birds being released--they appear by surprise and of course the angles and speeds vary, so the shooting can be challenging. At each blast of the gamekeeper’s horn, the guns move to their next assigned peg. By the end, each gun has shot from each peg, to ensure that everyone gets more or less the same opportunities. Fallen birds are picked up by the dogs for all Seasons Retriever Club. Members and their dogs, mostly labs, are stationed on the circle between pegs and retrieve pheasants as they fall. Birds will be equally distributed among the guns. (Many shooters have the birds smoked and simply mailed to their homes.) After the shoot, which ends by about 1:30 p.m., the guns and their guests will sit down to a Pig Roast with all the trimmings at the clubhouse. Some of our guns dress a bit for this event, with traditional tweeds and breeks, but that’s optional. Others prefer simple club-style shooting clothing, which is appropriate as well. This season we are offering optional walk-up pheasant hunting with guide and pointing dog on Sunday. Our full program of events and costs is below. Sincerely, Virginia A. Mallon The proprietor of Pheasant Ridge is Virginia Mallon. That's Virginia, center, wearing a white hat, in a photo published by the Shooting Sportsman magazine in the March, 2000 issue. Photograph by Ian Austin  Click Here to read Article   FALL FOLIAGE CONTINENTAL PHEASANT SHOOT OCTOBER 11, 2008 Master of the Hunt - Silvio Calabi - Shooting Sportsman Magazine Friday - October 10 6:00 PM Cocktail Party at Pheasant Ridge Manor House Saturday October 11 8:30 AM - Coffee and doughnuts 9:00 - 10:00 - Clay warm-up flurry 10:30 -  Driven-style Continental pheasant shoot - 250 birds released 1:30 - Pig roast with all the trimmings 7:00 - Cocktails and dinner in Pheasant Ridge Barn catered by The Lily and the Rose Sunday - October 12 Walkup hunt (2 ˝ hours with guide and dog) for three hunters with release of 10 pheasants, on Easton View Outfitters grounds. (www.eastonviewoutfitters.com) Prices Continental shoot with two hunters sharing a peg - $445 each hunter Continental shoot with one hunter at his own peg - $725 Sunday walkup - $175 per hunter (with three hunters with guide) Saturday non-shooting guest lunch $50 Friday cocktail party complimentary Saturday cocktail party to be advised Note: For a nominal fee, your fair share of pheasants can be smoked and mailed to your home. Reservations To reserve a peg, please send 50% non refundable deposit to: Pheasant Ridge, Inc., P.O.Box 216, Greenwich, NY 12834 (balance due by August 15) or call Virginia Mallon at (518) 692-9459. Accommodations Please let me know if you will need hotel accommodations. Easton View Lodge will offer double room accommodations for $75 per room per night. Spa and shopping tours to Lake George or Saratoga Springs, or Manchester Center, nearby in Vermont, can be arranged for non-shooting guests.

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