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Little Canyon Shoot Pres & Sports Clay
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Phone: 208-486-6235
Fax: 208-486-6214
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Public or Private Destination: Public, Member, Corp
Type of Shoots: Field, Tower, Driven
Game Offered: Quail, Pheasant, Chukar, Huns
Other Hunting/Sporting Opportunities: Clays. Guides & Dogs, Allow Hunters to Bring Their Dogs
Lodging: Clubhouse, Lodging, Meals
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Little Canyon Shooting
Little Canyon Shooting has much to offer. It is your full service destination. We offer pheasant and chukar hunting on multiple ranches, clay shooting, continental shooting, shooting instruction, lodging, meals, professionally trained dogs, and a pro shop. We also offer memberships as well as day hunts.
For a change of pace we offer continental shoots. Imagine shooting pheasants in full flight from many different directions. 200 birds is the norm for this event and when specials are running even more birds are used. This is an event which is difficult to explain and is a must to experience!
Little Canyon Shooting facilities are the perfect destination for business meetings, company picnics, reunions, family outings, and groups large & small.
When you arrive at Little Canyon Shooting, our goal is to provide you with an escape from the daily routines of life and prepare you for the exciting days ahead. We offer you the finest accommodations, breathtaking scenery, and the opportunity to participate in some of the best pheasant hunting and shooting sports around.
Little Canyon Shooting's natural habitat and unique ambiance creates the perfect place for your special events. Treat your family, your friends, your business, and of course yourself, to the many adventures Little Canyon Shooting has to offer.
Experience the Northwest's finest upland game bird hunting!
8 months a year in Idaho & Washington - August 15 - April 15
7 months a year in Montana - September 1 - March 31
Resident and nonresident license $12.75 per year in Idaho. State license required in Montana. No license required in Washington. Hunt with our dogs or use your own dogs. Perfect for training already started dogs.
All reservations will be through Little Canyon Shooting Ranch- 208-486-6235
Day Hunts-
- 9 birds per hunter
- $225.00 per person (one or two hunters)
- $210.00 per person (three or more hunters)
- Lunch Included
Half Day Hunts- 9:00 - 12:00 noon or 2:00 - 5:00 PM
- 3 birds per hunter (one or two hunters) $100.00 per person
- 3 birds per hunter (three or more hunters) $75.00 per person
- 6 birds per hunter (one or two hunters) $162.00 per person
- 6 birds per hunter (three or more hunters) $142.00 per person
Day hunt bird policy: All bird counts based on "RELEASED BIRDS". Extra birds for release available for purchase-
- Roosters- $25.00 ea.
- Hens- $18.00 ea.
- 50/50 mix- $20.00 ea.
Overnight Hunts-
  
Accommodations
Our original lodge and home is a barn built in 1902 by the Deterly brothers who homesteaded the ranch in Little Canyon. When we purchased the ranch in 1976, Andrea and the kids and I began converting the old barn into a home. In 1980 we added a large room on the south side complete with a heated indoor pool and a hot tub. When we started Little Canyon Shooting in 1996 we began adding more bedrooms and guest facilities on the bottom two floors. Now we have four bedrooms with baths which will accommodate sixteen guests or four average families. A spacious dining room and a complete commercial kitchen further compliment our facilities. We are especially fortunate to have a full time chef and the services of a master chef who is on call and assists with special menus and occasions as well as large groups.
A new pro shop is now under construction adjacent to the dining area. The pro shop will carry a complete line of hunting accessories, clothing , shotgun shells, guns and art.
Our latest addition is a brand new log lodge that is Andy and Dianes home.? It has a very large daylight basement with three guest rooms and a spacious general area for meetings? and those late night card games. Each room has its own bath and the two front rooms have gas fireplaces. One of the bathrooms is handicapped accessible. Three queen, two full and three twin beds provide room for eight individuals or three average families. All included we can accommodate twenty six individuals or seven average families, enabling us to cater a lot of couples weekends and corporate events where we tailor the entire operation to their? choices of lodging, food, special events and shooting events. As always we brag about our great flying birds, wonderful food and unbeatable hospitality.
Sporting clays open year round- reservations required.
- 50 birds- $35.00
- 100 birds- $45.00
After shooting in one of our Continental shoots a couple of weeks ago, a fellow from Seattle remarked this is not something you can write about or even explain to someone and have any reasonable expectation that they will grasp the concept, much less, realize how much pure fun can be had in such a simple endeavor. But I will try. Our continental shoot is a variation on the driven shoots enjoyed by the aristocracy in Europe for hundreds of years. Driven shoots start with the shooters taking their stands on the opposite side of a tall line of trees adjacent to a large field full of pheasants. A line of drivers push through the field, flushing the pheasants over the trees into the path of the waiting shooters. Pheasants flying very fast and very high come over the shooters stands to be met by a volley of shotgun blasts intended to bring their flight to an abrupt end. The loaders frantically try to keep the shooters armed with the goal being to take as many of the pheasants as humanly possible. Then as the shooters retire back to the castle for a post-hunt feast the birds are dressed and taken care of by the workers.
With the concept being the same, we altered the mechanics of the shoot to create the Little Canyon Continental Shoot. Our shoot takes place in a steep canyon on the Peck, Idaho ranch. Ten stands are set up across the canyon and birds are released from sites even further up the canyon. As the pheasants approach the stands at about mach 2 with their tails on fire and often thirty to forty yards high in the trees, the shooters success can often be sorely tested. We start the shoot with an explanation of the concept, a review of safety concerns and an introduction of all the retrievers and their handlers. Each shooter then draws for their starting stand, numbered one through ten. Depending on the shoot, twenty or more birds will be released at each stands as the shooters progress through the full ten stands over the period of the shoot. Shooting all ten stands gives the participants an equal chance for the hot stands of the day. After each stand has been shot the hunt master announces that it is time to rotate stands and the shooters unload their guns and proceed to the next stand on their card. Halfway through the shoot we take a break for refreshments and to secure more ammo. After the second half of the shoot has been completed we make sure all the birds have been secured by the retrievers and then return along with the dog handlers to the lodge for the hunters feast. At the lodge we give the shoot results in total number of birds taken and the percentage taken. Up until 2008 the best percentage ever was 74.2%, but in two shoots in February, 08 two groups shot 75% back to back. The average usually runs about 56% to 60%. The dressed birds are then divided equally among the ten shooters. We recommend bringing five to six boxes of #7.5 or #6 shot for the shoot. A modified choke seems to work as well as any and an auto-loader with the plug out provides the shooter a greater opportunity for success. Hunters being what they are, we always have a money bird to keep things interesting and often set up circles on the course so the shooters may wager on who can place the downed pheasant in the circle. If you want to have a fabulous outing or maybe want to entertain some very special clients, give us a call. You can combine your Continental shoot with any combination of overnight stays, sporting clays and field hunts that you prefer.
The birds are some of the best we have ever had so give us a call and book your field hunts and schedule a continental shoot with some of your friends, family, or customers.
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