Cast and Blast In Detail
This correspondence with a group coming at the end of June gives detailed information on our 3-day Cast and Blast experience.
We propose the following schedule for your consideration. Our experience has been that last-minute changes don’t work well mainly because doing all this successfully requires more planning than you might expect.
Sunday, June 25
Arrivals afternoon Sunday, June 25. Expected six. We need to know arrival times and if anyone will need transportation to the ranch. Someone will need to assign bedrooms. All are first class but there are some differences. Two have walk-in showers, for example.
We could provide lunch on Sunday if anyone wants to arrive early. Minimum four. Picking up sandwiches enroute is an option.
If anyone wants to shoot that afternoon, we will need to conduct an orientation, safety briefing, and shotgun fitting for anyone not shooting their own gun before taking that group to Five Stand, Grouse Butt, and Crazy Quail with a guide and Polaris Ranger for up to four. If all six arrive early enough and want to shoot, we will provide two guides and Rangers. To do this and be back in the Lodge in time for cocktails on the deck by 6 pm, those wanting to shoot on Sunday would need to arrive by 2:30 pm.
Cocktails on the deck with major hor d’oeuvres from 6 pm. Dinner at 7:30. We will provide menus for your review by the end of this week. Please let us know if there are any food intolerances or diet restrictions.
We provide an open bar (bring what you want to drink, use what’s here, and leave what you don’t consume) ice, mixers, beer and house wines for all evening meals. For safety reasons, the shooting stops when drinking begins.
Monday, June 26
Two additional arrivals. We need to know arrival times and if anyone needs transportation.
Coffee available from 7 am. Full ranch breakfast available from 8 am.
Orientation, safety briefing, and shotgun fitting at 9 am for those who did not complete this on Sunday including the two new arrivals. We will fit those two into the program as required.
One group of four of the most experienced shotgun shooters with a guide and Polaris Ranger to Grouse Butt and Crazy Quail. The second group of four will go to Five Stand with an instructor. This will give us an opportunity to correct any safety issues.
Around 10:30, the second group will go to Station 1 on our world’s best Sporting Clays course. The first group will shoot Five Stand before following the second group to Station 1. The guides will have radios to coordinate this. The Sporting Clay’s course can be scored or unscored as the group prefers. Scoring adds a degree of competitiveness.
Around 11, the two groups will meet up at Station 6 for Elevenses (snacks, hydration, and a bathroom break) and conversation.
The two groups will complete Stations 6 to 14 and return to the Lodge around 1 pm for lunch.
Around 2:30, when the group is ready, there will be an introduction to simulated European Style Driven Shooting with clays high overhead. There will be a drawing of pegs before the full group sets off for two drives of clays high overhead at each of two locations.
There will be much confusion as “the guns” forget their peg numbers and cannot figure out what moving up two pegs between drives means. The Shoot Captain, Steve, will eventually sort all this out. This is all part of the traditions of European Style Driven Shooting. European style shooting attire encouraged but not mandatory. Blue jeans are not acceptable shooting attire but are tolerated.
The group should be back in the lodge by 5 pm for cocktails and conversation on the deck followed by dinner.
Tuesday, June 26
Full ranch breakfast from 8 am.
Everyone will meet the fishing guides 30 to 45 minutes away depending on where you will be fishing for a full day on the river. We need to know if there will be at least two rental cars or if additional transportation will be required. You will need to decide who fishes with whom. Two per boat with a guide. Lunch will be on the river. Everyone should be back at the lodge by 5:30 for cocktails and dinner.
Wednesday, June 27
Full ranch breakfast in time for departures.
We could provide additional shooting on this day, but I suspect most people will be tired, but happy at this point.
Pricing is all inclusive except for lunch on the day of arrival, transportation, gratuities for the staff, and additional shooting on the day of arrival or departure. We can add an additional instructor if required, and an hour with our local “cowboy poet” during any of the cocktail hours at additional cost. Both are recommended.
We look forward to your visit. Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.
All the best.
Hank
That’s all folks.
If you would like to shoot with us Book Now! Or contact Hank at (917) 821-7210 or hank@lazytriplecreek.com
Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay shooting.
The Team at Lazy Triple Creek Ranch
Elk Hunts
We will close the ranch from October 12 to 20 for elk hunting season. We are sold out for 2023. If you would like to join us for the elk hunt of a lifetime in October 2024, let us know before the end of November 2023.
Lazy Triple Creek Outfitting is now licensed and should be eligible for outfitter tags in 2024.
Getting to Know your Long-Range, Precision Rifle
Exciting News: AllTerra Arms will be attending this event.
This year, in collaboration with the founders of Hammer Bullets and now AllTerra Arms from Boise Idaho, we are offering a class in precision scoped rifle shooting with George Harris on Saturday, August 19, and a day developing custom ammunition and validating external ballistics for your rifle with Steve Davis and Brian Holtmeyer, the founders of Hammer Bullets on Sunday, August 20. Book either or both days.
Stay in the Lodge for two or three nights with meals catered by our private chefs. Cost $390 per room per night plus $200 per person per day for catering. Wine, beer, cocktails, and conversation included.
The first day will be with George using our rifles and ammunition on our long-range rifle ranges shooting groups and ringing steel at ranges beyond your current comfort level from the bench and from improvised positions. Shoot extreme long range with AllTerra rifles. We may add a few Lazy Triple Creek rifles just to make things interesting. This will be a great opportunity to “learn your limits” for ethical game hunting and if the wind cooperates a great chance for you to join the “One Mile Club.”
The second day, for up to four students, will be with the founders of Hammer bullets who will develop custom ammunition for your rifle and help you confirm the external ballistics out to 500 yards and beyond. You will leave with 100 rounds of custom hunting ammunition developed for your rifle plus the skills to use your rifle effectively and ethically at longer ranges.
$890 for each day plus ammunition cost of $300 to $500 depending on the cartridge for the second day. Sign up for one or both days. Maximum eight on the first day, maximum of four students with their own rifles on the second day.
The cocktails and conversations at the end of each day will be unique and an unbelievable learning experience with the shooting folks who will be joining us.
Getting to Know your Pistol
George Harris, our rifle and pistol instructor, will be back at the ranch again in August.
George will be running a thorough “Getting to know your Pistol” class on Friday, August 18. Maximum eight students. Repeat students from prior years are welcome.
The pistol class will cost $890 plus 6% Idaho state sales tax for the day. All ammunition, snacks, lunch, cocktails and conversation on the deck at the end of the day are included. You are encouraged to shoot your own pistol, but loaner guns will be available.
European Style Driven Shooting with Western Sensibilities
We will be offering European Style Driven Upland Bird Shooting with Western Sensibilities on August 26 and September 2 with instruction with clays high overhead in the morning at two locations, a break for Elevenses, two drives with birds at the first location before lunch, followed by lunch and two drives at each of two additional locations after lunch, ending with cocktails and conversation on the deck at the end of a very full day. That’s six drives at three locations plus a morning of clays high overhead and instruction all for $2,100 per gun plus 6% Idaho Sales tax and gratuities.
Here are the dates remaining as of June 1:
• August 26: 8 pegs remaining.
• September 2: 6 pegs remaining
We return to our usual format for European Style Driven Shooting with Western Sensibilities of two drives at two locations, Elevenses, two drives at a third location, then lunch, followed by walkup hunting with fields full of birds from the driven shoots with a bird hunting guide and one or two well-trained dogs for every two or three guns. We will be modifying two of our walkup fields this season to accommodate either two or three guns by making two of our walkup fields wider and longer. As always, we end the day with cocktails and conversation on the deck.
• September 9: Now sold out
• October 28: 8 pegs remaining
We provide loaner shotguns for anyone not shooting their own guns, all ammunition, bird hunting guides and dogs, snacks during the day, lunch, walkup hunting after lunch, cocktails and conversation on the deck at the end of the day, and birds breasted, and vacuum sealed for your departure for $2,900 per gun plus Idaho sales tax of 6%, plus gratuities.
We will be offering driven-only shoots again in November, the same format as during August and early September not due to heat obviously, but because the elk will have destroyed most of our walkup fields by then. We will run our traditional European Style Driven Shoot with Western Sensibilities with walkup hunting if we can and will make that decision in late October.
Thanksgiving weekend is available but only if we can put together a line of eight guns. That is our favorite shoot of the year particularly with families shooting together.
Stays in the Lodge and Upland Bird Shooting
We do have a few openings available for groups who want to shoot upland birds and staying in the Lodge.
We do not yet have deposits for the following dates:
• September 1 to 12
• September 20 to 28
• October 3 to 11
• October 24 to November 1
These are all prime dates and will sell out very soon. The ranch is spectacularly beautiful in the fall.
Bring a group of up to eight for driven shooting plus walkups for one, two, or three days, staying in the Lodge with all meals catered by our private chefs.
Pricing per person shooting is as follows:
3 Nights / Two Days Shooting
• Morning Walkups, Clays in the Afternoon: $4,950
• Including One Day Driven Shooting: $6,495
4 Nights / Three Days Shooting
• Morning Walkups, Clays in the Afternoon: $7,495
• Including One Day Driven Shooting: $8,495
No bird limits. All inclusive. Lodging and sales tax, transportation to and from the ranch (can be arranged), and gratuities not included.
Upland Bird Walkup Hunting
The upland bird hunting season opens on August 15 in Idaho. Our experience is that it’s too hot for the guides, dogs and those shooting for walkup hunting until late August or early September so we will be offering only European Style Driven Shooting with Western Sensibilities without walkups during the last two weeks of August.
We will be offering upland bird walkup hunting with guides and dogs from August 30 to early November. Arrive at the lodge by 9:30 for coffee, juices, pastries, orientation, and a safety briefing before heading out in one of our Polaris Rangers to one of our many walkup fields with a guide/dog handler with one or two well-trained dogs for every two or three hunting.
We provide loaner shotguns for anyone not shooting their own guns, all ammunition, bird hunting guides and dogs, snacks during the day, lunch for four or more, and birds breasted, and vacuum sealed for your departure for $850 per person hunting, sales tax, but not gratuities, included. No bird limits. No added charges for ammunition, loaner guns, or anything else except for your hunting license.
Upland Bird Hunting 2023
Lazy Triple Creek Ranch was designed and constructed as a private, family shooting club by Edward Watson, famous and maybe infamous long time Executive Director of the West London Shooting School, well-known UK shooting estate manager, and writer for the Sporting Gazette in the UK. Edward passed away 12 years ago but left us with a world-class shooting ground for clays and upland bird hunting which holds its own with similar shooting grounds in the UK or elsewhere.
Our fields and deep canyons provide the high clay and bird shooting available in few places in the world. Join us for a shooting experience available to only a very few, lucky shooting sports enthusiasts.
Clays, Clays, and More Clays 2023
A half day on our clays courses costs the same $390 per person plus 6% Idaho Sales tax that we have been charging for the past three seasons. Arrive at the lodge by 9:30 for a welcome with coffee, juices, pastries, an orientation and a safety briefing. Loaner shotguns are available for those not shooting their own guns. All ammunition, clays, snacks during the day, and lunch for four or more are all included. No added charges for ammunition, clays, loaner shotguns, or anything else except for gratuities and your hunting license.
Shotgun Saturdays
Locals pay $300 inclusive of Idaho sales tax but not gratuities this season on the first and second Saturdays of June, July and August. We are extending this offer to anyone who commits to ten shooting days any day except Sundays and Mondays, staff days off, from June 1 to the end of August.
Trap, skeet, grouse butt, crazy quail, five stand, simulated driven with clays high overhead in three locations this season, and what others say is the best 14-station sporting clays course anywhere will be open from June 1 to the end of August.
Overnight Stays with Clays
For those interested in staying in our Lodge while shooting our clays courses during the days, costs are:
Three nights, two days shooting: $3,595 per person
Non-shooters are welcome for a small added cost.
Prices are per person and inclusive of all meals prepared by our private chef, open bar, loaner shotguns, and all ammunition and clays. Single or double occupancy in a double bedroom with ensuite bath. Minimum four. Maximum 14. Exclusive use of the Lodge for six or more. Transportation to the ranch (can be arranged), Idaho sales and lodging tax, and gratuities are not included.
Add an instructor for your group for a small additional charge. We have a great new instructor this season. Come meet Richard for an individual or group lesson.
Cast and Blast: New for 2023
In cooperation with premier fly-fishing organizations in one of the premier fly-fishing locations in the world, we will be offering “Cast and Blast” in June, July, and August.
Stay at Lazy Triple Creek Ranch, and fly fish for one, two, or three days. Depending on where the fishing is the best, professional guides with boats for two anglers each will meet you at our Lodge or you will meet them at their location 15 to 45 minutes away. We match angler experience and local fishing conditions with the very best locally experienced, licensed guides.
For local fishing reports check the following:
https://worldcastanglers.com/
https://henrysforkanglers.com/
Then spend the next two, or three days shooting with us on our world-class clays courses, rifle ranges, or pistol range. We offer trap, skeet, five stand, grouse butt, crazy quail, simulated driven with clays high overhead, now at three locations around the ranch, and our maybe best in the world 14 station sporting clays course.
Most weekends are available, but the casting part of Cast and Blast sells out early every year.
Three nights, one-day fishing, one-day shooting: $3,495
If you want more details about the program for the three days, read our correspondence with the group coming at the end of June.
The Lodge
2,200 Acres. One Passion.
We are open for the 2023 season.
We have had 17 guests shooting with us the first week since we opened. The universal sentiment was, “It’s great to be shooting again.” We agree.
The purpose of this newsletter is to update what’s available for those who want to shoot clays or upland birds with us at Lazy Triple Creek Ranch. Mostly, more of the same with availability shrinking as more and more bookings are being confirmed. We do have more details about “Cast and Blast” and exciting news about the “Getting to Know Your Rifle” courses in August. Read on.
Here’s what’s available for the 2023 Season.