Alabama Hunting Lodge News and Upcoming Events
2012 Eagles' Wings Continental Pheasant Shoot
Friday, February 3, 2012 @ Westervelt Lodge
This event will consist of two 20-gun shoots: one morning session and one afternoon. Refreshments are provided during the shoot, and Westervelt Lodge's famous fried chicken lunch will be served between the morning and afternoon sessions.
Participation is limited to 40 shooters. Early registration is recommended. Registration is $325 and includes participation in one 300-bird shoot, refreshments, lunch, door prizes, and cleaned and packaged birds to take home for the grill.
2012 Freshwater Land Trust Continental Pheasant Shoot
Thursday, February 16, 2012 and Friday, February 17, 2012 @ Westervelt Lodge
This event will consist of two 20-gun shoots: one morning session and one afternoon. Refreshments are provided during the shoot, and Westervelt Lodge's famous fried chicken lunch will be served between the morning and afternoon sessions.
Participation is limited to 40 shooters. Early registration is recommended. Registration is $400 and includes participation in one 300-bird shoot, refreshments, lunch, door prizes, and cleaned and packaged birds to take home for the grill.
2012 Catch-A-Dream Foundation Continental Pheasant Shoot
Friday, February 24, 2012 @ Westervelt Lodge
This event will consist of two 20-gun shoots: one morning session and one afternoon. Refreshments are provided during the shoot, and Westervelt Lodge's famous fried chicken lunch will be served between the morning and afternoon sessions.
Participation is limited to 40 shooters. Early registration is recommended. Registration is $325 and includes participation in one 300-bird shoot, refreshments, lunch, door prizes, and cleaned and packaged birds to take home for the grill.
8th Annual Charlie Hughen Memorial Sporting Clay & Skeet Shoot
And Log-A-Load For Kids Raffle
November 11, 2011 @ Westervelt Lodge; Registration 8:00 A.M.; Lunch provided by Warrior Tractor; $75 per shooter plus 2 boxes of shells; 32 4-man teams; 50 rounds.
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Youth Hunt - November 11-13, 2011
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2011-2012 Dates & Rates
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2012 Turkey School
To be the best, you have to learn from the best.That's why our annual turkey school - 3 of the most fun, intense days you can spend learning and refining skills as a hunter - features renowned turkey expert, author and storyteller Tom Kelly, where students enjoy one-on-one time with this living legend.
April 13-15, 2012
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Quail in the South
Westervelt Lodge returns tradition to the pine woods
Unless there is a post-apocalytic return to small-scale, dirty agriculture bereft of herbicides, pesticides and exacting farm machinery, there will never again be large-scale quail hunting in the South. [...] One famous hunting lodge tucked just inside the edge of Alabama's Black Belt has vowed to put the hunt back into quail hunting.
[The article appeared in the August 2011 edition of Gun Dog magazine]
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Quail in the Rough
Adventures in Tombigbee Country
by Terry Wieland
"The instructions were explicit. Too much so, perhaps.
Knowing that finding their lodge in the woods is a bit of a challenge, the people from Westervelt covered every base, and every possible route—west from Tuscaloosa, north from Mobile, even east from Jackson, Mississippi..."
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Alabama Hunting Season Gives Boost to Economy
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) Just about everyone knows Alabama's football season began Saturday. But the state has another season that also started Sept. 4.
The sound of shotguns thundered across the Alabama countryside as dove season opened up throughout most of the state. Even though it's officially still summer, it was the opening salvo of an autumn rite that consumes many Alabama sportsmen for the next six to eight months. But its also an economic engine that provides a welcome influx of cash to much of West Alabama.
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My Westervelt Youth Hunt of 2009 by William Dylan Puckett
Westervelt Lodge is on YouTube
Clips from our DVD are now available for viewing on YouTube.
School Educates on Safe and Correct Deer Hunting
Tuscaloosa, Ala. – As the countdown to deer hunting season begins, many find themselves struggling to mesh a desire to hunt with access to proper knowledge and equipment.
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