The Nebraska 626 Tour

6 clubs ­ 2 days ­ 600 targets

May 25 ­ 26, 2013

Sign­up and Register on iClays.com

Shoot ALL 6 courses and you are eligible for the event payouts

$325.00 to shoot all six courses$40.00 to shoot a single course (NOT eligible for event payouts)

All costs include NSCA and NSSCA fees

Shoot either the East or West rotation on May 25, 2012 and the following rotation the next day.

*MUST shoot clubs in order at designated times.Starting times for each club shown below.*

EAST ROTATION

Registration 6:45 ­ 7:45 / Lincoln Trap and Skeet ­ First Day only

*8:00 AM Lincoln Trap and Skeet ­ Lincoln, NE

11:00 AM Oak Creek Sporting Club ­ Brainard, NE

3:00 PM Pheasant Bonanza ­ Tekamah, NE

WEST ROTATION

Registration 7:45 ­ 8:45 AM / HPSP ­ First Day Only

*9:00 AM Heartland Public Shooting Park ­ Grand Island, NE

12:00 PM Timber Creek ­ Ravenna, NE

3:00 PM Ft. Kearney Shooting Sports ­ Kearney, NE

Shooter Social: Saturday May 25th, 2013 ­ 6:30 p.m. Luckies Lounge (West)1101 West Bond Street / I­80 exit 399, Lincoln, NE

Shooters are eligible for punches at each club

Shooters will start on the same station at each club

Shooters will shoot with their same squads at each club

Contact jpabian@yahoo.com for info ­ www.nssca.net/626 website

Join us at Roosters that night! The bar will be open and we will have a delicious dinner prepared by Chef Aaron. RSVP to roosters@pheasantbonanza.com or 402-374-1765

Saturday, June 1st
Duration: 9am-2pm +/-
Cost: $150 payable to Greg Hadcock/Professional Firearms Training (PFT)

Bring Handgun larger than .22, 100 rounds of ammunition, eye & ear protection, some form of holster to draw from, drivers license, and money for class. Pheasant Bonanza has ear protection in our Pro Shop for your convenience.

This weekend Chef Aaron’s main dish is a shell fish fry-up:

Scallops and Prawns.  Crispy garlic croutons.  Slow roasted maple pork belly.  Creamy Parmesan polenta.  Red Champagne gravy. $25, tax and dessert included.

From Chef Aaron:

”I love seafood, but I am VERY picky when it comes to this…..probably more than most.  In my days as a saucier apprentice at the Sorrento Hotel in Seattle I was assigned to break (clean, skin, de-bone, fillet and portion) several giant halibut, salmon, monkfish etc. every morning.  It was a great learning experience that I value more now than I did back in those days as a young 20 something line cook whom just moved to town from rural Nebraska that wanted to make some money to pay the rent.  Ha!”

Dessert for this Saturday’s meal is fresh Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Tuaca soaked cherries, and pineapple buttercream frosting. Dessert is included in the dinner price.

We are offering a smoke pheasant breast charcuterie board appetizer-pheasants shot here at Pheasant Bonanza, served with Satori Parmesan, sweet pepper jam made by the owner’s wife, Miss Carol, and fresh baked Focaccia bread.  Price is $12 and includes tax.

Please RSVP toroosters@pheasantbonanza.com or402-374-1765.

Due to the weather not cooperating, we have extended league for tow weeks. If you have not yet signed up, you can start this week. League runs for twelve weeks, on Thursday nights from 1 pm to 9 pm. There is no team fee, just $17.50 for 50 clays (or $35 for 100 clays, if you want to shoot bi-weekly instead of weekly). We have specials for league shooters on Thursday nights, such as $5 per person gold carts. Dining is available at Roosters, with specials there as well. Open shooting is available those nights as well. Please call 402-374-1765 or email office@pheasantbonanza.com if you have any questions.

Win one of 7 guns given away!

Qualifying Rules

Pheasant Bonanza will have a total of 900 qualifying small gauge targets (20 gauge, 28 gauge, and 410 bore) available at 5 of our shoots over the course of the season. To be eligible for the championship, you must shoot 600 targets over a minimum of 3 shoots. These targets only count for qualifying.

Qualifying Shoots

Season Opener: March 24th, 150 targets

Cabin Fever: April 28th, 150 targets

4 Man Challenge: June 30th, 150 targets

NWTF Missouri River Shootout: July 21st, 150 targets

Nebraska State Championship: August 2nd-4th, 300 targets

Championship Rules

The only score that counts towards the grand prize is at the championship. Best score wins out of the 300 targets. Grand prize is one gun per class. There must be a minimum of 2 shooters per class at the championship to be eligible for the grand prize giveaway. If there is a tie in any class there we be a 28 gauge shoot off held.

Championship Shoot

3rd Annual Pheasant Bonanza Shootout: August 24th-25th, 300 targets

For more information or to sign up for events contact us at 402-374-1765 or email office@pheasantbonanza.com

European Hunt

Saturday, February 23rd. Hunt starts at 10 am, ends at noon. Cost is only $250. A European hunt is designed to simulate blocking a field with hundreds of birds flying overhead. Expect to shoot anywhere from two to eight boxes of shells in this exciting, fast paced hunt.

NATHA Nebraska State Pheasant Competition

March 2nd and 3rd

• Open Doubles, Pro Doubles, Puppy Doubles: $199
• Amateur Doubles, Open Top Gun, Top Gun, Top Gun 50, Top Gun 60, Senior Dog Top Gun: $169

Late Season Booking Specials

We still have over a month left to our season and plenty of birds! There’s still plenty of time to get some great hunting in.

Sporting Clay Spring League

Leagues start April 11th. and run for 12 weeks.

European Hunt

January 26th

• Hunt starts at 10 am, ends at noon
• Minimum of 12 hunters required to host the hunt
• Cost is $250 per person. Call 402-374-1765 or email office@pheasantbonanza.com to sign up.

A European hunt is designed to simulate blocking a field with hundreds of birds flying overhead. Expect to shoot anywhere from 2 to 8 boxes of shells in this exciting, fast paced hunt.

NATHA Nebraska State Partridge Competition

• Open Doubles, Pro Doubles, Puppy Doubles: $199
• Amateur Doubles, Open Top Gun, Top Gun, Top Gun 50, Top Gun 60, Senior Dog Top Gun: $169
• Contact the office at 402-374-1765 or email office@pheasantbonanza.com

Hunter Safety class

February 16th-17th

Saturday:

• Registration at 8:30 am
• Class is 9 am-3pm.
• 3pm-4pm: Optional shooting activities for $45 per person. 12 or 20 g shells included
• Overnight lodging and meals: $65 per person. Kids must be accompanied by an adult.

Sunday

• Class is 9 am-3 pm
• 3pm-5pm: Optional guided upland hunt, 12 g or 20 g shells included for $125 per person

Register here: http://www.register-ed.com/events/view/28402

We were happy to host NRA Outdoors and Benelli’s exhibition shooter Tim Bradley for a hunt this season. Check out this video of their stay made by NRA’s Greg Ray:

NRA Outdoors Hunt With Tim Bradley

Pheasant Bonanza’s new chef, Aaron Schroder, is the perfect fit for our hunt club. Not only does he have 20 years experience in food service, he’s an avid hunter that moved to Nebraska from New York City to follow his dreams.

“We found a great real estate opportunity in eastern Nebraska, an acreage where we could train dogs, hunt, and raise my wife’s horses” Aaron said. “We quickly bought it, left NYC and never looked back.”

Aaron’s  career as a service professional started 20 years ago in his families restaurant in downtown Seattle, Washington.  After learning the family’s business he moved on to working with chefs Walter Piszano, Brian Scheesher, and Carrie Christenson in hotel kitchens and dining rooms where he honed his skills at butchering, saucier, and fine dining table service.

In the early 2000s a move from Seattle to New York City found him working at the bustling Lupa, of Iron Chef Mario Batalli fame, working closely with tourist and local celebrity alike.

Next, a very busy and specialty coffee cafe in Brooklyn where he and his wife April managed day to day operations, before their move to Nebraska.

Aaron’s combination of culinary and hunting skill make Pheasant Bonanza a great place for him, allowing him to combine his passions. When he’s not cooking you can find Aaron and his dogs working one of our fields, bringing back plenty of birds.”Joining the Pheasant Bonanza team has been amazing, it’s perfect.” Aaron says.

“As a bird hunter myself I know what it’s like to hunt all day and come back and want to eat some really good food and relax.” Aaron brings that knowledge to everything he does a Pheasant Bonanza, making every meal a four star experience. Our customers have never been happier.

“I look forward to sharing my culinary skills with my fellow bird hunters.  I welcome EVERYONE to our lodge, and encourage any requests you might have to make this as comfortable as possible.”

Friends, we’ve got it all covered.  Come hunt with us.