What to Expect

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A hearty, home-cooked breakfast is served in the dining room of the main lodge at 8:00 am. At 8:30, your guide (s) arrives in the specially designed and equipped hunting rig or “Bird Buggy” and will go through a safety talk before you embark on your morning quail hunt. We’ll have you in the field by 9:00; dogs released searching for their first covey. You will hunt with your group of guests of two to six hunters (ideally four to one hunting wagon) with one guide. We do not mix hunting parties in the field. For safety reasons, a maximum of only two shooters can be on the ground at one time and will rotate allowing all gunners to have equal shooting opportunities.

A delicious lunch is served back at the lodge at noon, followed by a short relaxation time or a quick round of Wobble Trap before we head back for the afternoon hunt at 1:30 or 2:00. At the end of your afternoon quail hunt, we’ll bring you back to the lodge where you can enjoy the late afternoon rocking on the porch or in front of a warm fire, cocktail in hand awaiting your scrumptious home-cooked Southern dinner, casual style! After dinner, our great room is a wonderful place to relax, read, or watch television. Enjoy the privacy of the screened in back porch or play a game of pool in the Bunkhouse before retiring to your bedroom.

What to Bring

You will require typical upland gear including a hunting vest or shell pouch, field shirt, jacket, rain wear, waterproof boots (or a pair of rubber boots for damp mornings and leather boots for afternoons), brier pants or chaps, and shooting glasses. Shotgun and shells. We’ll supply your Shadow Oak blaze orange cap. Dinner is casual at the lodge; no formal attire is required.

Shadow Oak Plantation offers their logo-embroidered upland vests and shirts, t-shirts, and shell pouches for sale. For those who prefer not to transport their shotguns, we offer rentals of 20 gauge over and under shotguns at $50/day as well as 12 and 20 gauge shot shells (8 and 6 shot for pheasants).

You are required to purchase a GA hunting license available online through the Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources. To save time, we suggest you purchase your hunting license prior to arrival.