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Bird Hunting, Sporting
Clays & K-9 Center
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
DISTRIBUTOR OF
FROMM DOG FOOD
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Hunts
Point Sportsman’s Club is anything but a typical
hunting preserve. At Hunts Point, you’ll find
excellent habitat for
pheasant hunting, a
challenging 10 station
sporting
clays course and 5-stand course,
field trials and events, and unique shooting
opportunities like European Tower Shoots.
In its lodge, Hunts Point offers the perfect
atmosphere to mix business with pleasure. It's a
great place to entertain your clients or
customers with an afternoon of hunting or a
relaxing round of sporting clays.
Hunts Point Sportsman’s Club opened for business
in 2002 with the main goal of providing guests
with a true hunting experience and exciting,
unique shooting opportunities. Located in the
beautiful Brainerd Lakes Area, Hunts Point has
more than 500 acres of prime land, featuring a
mix of habitat for excellent bird
hunting.
Instead of releasing pheasants in a small field
for hunters, we developed a “small farm” concept
with large fields and meadows, more consistent
with a realistic bird hunt. In the middle of all
our land is a challenging 10 station sporting
clay and 5-Stand course and a grove of trees we
use for European Tower Shoots, which most
sportsmen in Minnesota have never participated
in, let alone heard of. But those who try it
love it.
And since our passion is our Nova Scotia Duck
Tolling Retrievers, we wanted our club to offer
the finest facilities for dog training and
field events.
On January 23, 2011 we had a devastating fire
that destroyed our clubhouse which we had worked
so hard on renovating.
We have rebuilt a new clubhouse, along with a
7,700 sq. ft. K-9 Center.
Obedience, Rally and Agility classes will be
offered. This is the first of agility
being offered in the area. K-9
Center
We invite you to come out and visit us, to see
what we're all about. Come as an individual or
with a group. We think you'll like what you
find.
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January
23rd, 2011
Hunts Point Club Fire Video
Follow our progress as we rebuild
Facilities
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Pheasant Hunting
Our bird hunts feature explosive,
fast-flying pheasants, chukars in prime hunting habitat that was
carefully and professionally developed
with meadows, food plots and tree lines. |
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Sporting Clays
Our 10-station and 5 stand sporting clays courses
give guests a chance to test and
fine-tune their shooting ability. |
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Photo Gallery
Photos of the grounds, hunts, sporting
clays and events.
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Hunts Point Estates
Wildlife and nature enthusiasts this is
for you. Hunts Point Wildlife Estates is
a common interest community. |
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Today, the hunt club serves the role of
alleviating the strain of population pressure on
public hunting grounds by offering extended
seasons and days in the field where no other
hunting parties will be encountered. These
operations also are playing an important role in
the transitioning of young and first-timer
hunters, increasingly women, in a somewhat more
controlled environment than would be present on
public land during the regular hunting season.
In many states, hunting clubs are regular
centers for Youth in the Outdoors, Becoming an
Outdoor Woman, American Wilderness Leadership
School programs for grade-school teachers and
similar outdoor-education and outdoor-experience
programs.
The American hunting tradition traces its roots
to the historic "long-hunter" explorer
frontiersman. Americans born and bred in the
last century with traditional open access to
most public and private lands associate a “wild
freedom" with a day in the field. Although the
thought of hunting on a "preserve" or a "game
farm" is anathema to many hunters, who are
traditionally unwilling to pay to access the
sport, this attitude is changing. Private land
is increasingly difficult to access, partly due
to liability issues, and public land is
increasingly congested due to population
pressure, burgeoning urban encroachment and
rural housing development.
Unlike North America, Europe and most of the
rest of the world has always had some sort of
managed hunting, and it is a respected part of
their cultural traditions. Only available to the
elite for centuries, hunting was on private
estates where game managers policed the grounds,
managed habitat and supplemented game
populations with reared animals. Hunts were (and
still are) conducted under the control of a
gillie, JaegerMeister "hunt-master" or similar
professional guide. In most parts of the world,
access by individuals for hunting (or fishing)
is only available on a for-fee, by-arrangement
basis and is on private property.
For-fee hunting operations primarily are
oriented to the needs of individuals who
purchase sustaining yearly memberships, many of
which belong to competitive pointing-dog
field-trial competitors, breeders or handlers
who pay the yearly membership fee to work their
dogs over live birds. Although there is no set bag limit,
usually a given number of birds are released per
hunter before the hunt to ensure a bird presence
within that day's active area of the club's
grounds. Bird cleaning and packaging is
available for a small fee.
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