Pheasant Tower Shoots in North Georgia

A black Labrador sitting on a round hay bale beside a side-by-side shotgun and five pheasants — The end of a drive

The Shoot

Birds off a tower, in ridge country that makes them harder.

The tower stands on a rise with the ground falling away from it. Pheasants come off it high and keep climbing, and the wind coming over the ridge does the rest — nobody gets an easy one.

Pegs are numbered round bales set in a ring at the bottom, out in the broomsedge and along the pine edges. You shoot from your peg, the dogs work the ground between drives, and the birds you don't get go on living out there.

It is a social way to shoot. Everybody is within sight of everybody else, there is a lot of standing about between drives, and the noise of it carries all the way back to the pavilion.

A line of shooters spread along a field edge at a pheasant tower shoot — The line, between drives

A pheasant flying away from the top of the release tower against a blue sky — Off the tower

The release tower standing on a rise above broomsedge, with the ridge line beyond — The tower, on the rise

Shooters firing beside a utility vehicle with powder smoke hanging in the air — Smoke still hanging

A shooter swinging on a bird beside a hay bale during falling snow — January, and snowing

Two guns firing into low cloud on a foggy February morning — February, and socked in

A fox-red Labrador carrying a cock pheasant back across the field — Bringing one back

How the Day Runs

Arrive at ten. Shoot at eleven. Eat at one.

Guns gather at the pavilion, there's coffee and a safety talk, and then everybody rides out together. Shooting starts around eleven and runs through the middle of the day.

When it's finished the birds come back to the pavilion, and so does everybody else — a fire going, lunch on the table, and a long slow hour of people telling each other about the one that beat them.

Numbers, dates and price depend on the day and the size of your party. Give us a call and we'll build it around you.

Call (762) 419-6569

Two shooters walking out of the field with guns over their shoulders and a bag of birds — Walking out

Three cock pheasants laid together in the grass — Cocks, laid out

The bed of a utility vehicle filled with cock pheasants at the end of a shoot — The bag, at the end of it

Smoke rising from the outdoor kitchen at the pavilion with a pointer waiting beside the table — Lunch, getting on

Guests serving themselves from chafing dishes on a long table under the pavilion — Down the line

Guests standing under the pavilion roof looking out over the field after a shoot — Nobody in a hurry

Folded canvas bags printed with a pointing dog and the DanMar Plantation name — Something to take home

Before You Come

What to bring, and what not to worry about.

Tower Day Notes

Shells are yours to bring. Pheasants take more gun than quail — heavier loads and larger shot than you'd carry on a quail morning. Bring plenty; nobody has ever brought too many.
Ear and eye protection. A tower line is loud in a way a walk-up hunt is not.
Dress for standing still. You'll be at a peg in the open, not walking. Our shoots have run in snow and in fog.
The dogs are ours. Labs pick the birds up; you don't need to bring a dog.
A Georgia hunting license is required, same as any preserve day. See Plan Your Visit.
Birds go home with you, cleaned and iced in a DanMar cooler.

Shooters on a peg at a pheasant tower shoot

Dates Each Season

Pick a date and hold it.

Tower shoots run through the Georgia preserve season, October 1 to March 31. One shoot a day, up to forty guns. The dates we have open are on the calendar, priced per shooter and paid in full.

Sporting Clays

High birds, numbered pegs, and lunch when it's done.

Birds off a tower, in ridge country that makes them harder.

Arrive at ten. Shoot at eleven. Eat at one.

What to bring, and what not to worry about.

Tower Day Notes

Pick a date and hold it.