Hunt at Woodmont of Virginia

First-Class Private Virginia Quail Hunting

Join this all-inclusive experience in beautiful Callaway, Virginia, featuring farm-to-table meals, quail, six English Setter birddogs, trap clays, and accommodations (shot guns and shells not provided).

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410-830-9001

The Woodmont of Virginia Quail Hunt Experience

A tradition established in 1881

With the Woodmont of Maryland Tradition in mind, the grandson of Henry P. Bridges has created a similar Sportsmen’s Paradise for avid Quail hunters. Guests arrive on Friday afternoon and settle into the domicile-compound accommodation in the Main House and/or The Cottage. Comradery ensues around the automatic trap thrower, to sharpen a Sportsman’s wing-shooting skills for the wily Quail. The type of Gentleman/Sportsman who would enjoy Quail hunting, needs to be in shape, as the Saturday morning/afternoon and Sunday morning hunts are continuous walks for two-hour hunts. Quail are set over three different portions of the Farm property of two-hundred and sixty-one acres. Featured on thirty acres are eight Gamefields, planted with Sorghum cover strips surrounded by Quail Habitat. The Conservation long-term goal is to provide Quail Habitat and Sorghum grain for feed and nesting, in hopes the Quail will re-establish themselves on their indigenous mountain historical homelands.

Huntmaster David P. Bridges

Woodmont Virginia Biggen & son Tolstoy

The Setters were born on the Farm and bred with up to twenty-nine Field Trial Champions in their bloodlines and the ten of them were trained at Woodmont of Virginia Farm. They are kenneled in a professional six interior to exterior run complex with an eighth of an acre fenced training yard, where they are exercised seven hours each day. Three different braces of Setters are rotated over the course of the hunts. The aid of John Deere Gator is equipped and deployed with a four holstered gun rack and a double kennel. Sportsmen walk amidst rustic mountainous/hilly terrain and coveys of three to five Quail are pointed by the Setters and then flushed. The Five-Mile Mountain Range surrounds the Gamefields and Quail from the covey rise flush in great exuberance into the air and head for the cover of the woods. Consequently, hunters need to be talented Sportsmen shooters, as the set Quail are from a Quail Farm in North Carolina and the farmer raises 170,000 wily Quail each year. The Quail are freely flying all the time at the Quail Farm, which results in birds flying very fast.

Sportsmen guests will hunt with fresh Setters each of the hunts and then after Sunday morning’s hunt experience hunters are served lunch. The Chef Kristen Irvin cooking experience stems from years of learned Farm-To-Table unique process of growing/harvesting/preparing wholesome foods and Chef Kristen is exuberantly excited to serve fine dining culinary delights to the guests of Woodmont of Virginia Farm in the Atrium Library/Dining Room at Woodmont of Virginia Farm. You are privileged to enjoy her cuisine.

Three of eight gamefields with sorghum cover and quail habitat

Your culinary experience features the harvested vegetables from the garden and everything you are served is freshly frozen for an authentic Farm-To-Table culinary experience prepared to order. Woodmont of Virginia Farm USDA inspected Black Angus steer beef steaks are grilled to order and served. You will dine in The Atrium Library Dining Room at a hand-crafted Amish mahogany wood table that seats twelve guests. The experience can be augmented in moderation as you are welcome to bring your own adult beverage, BYOB and Nicaraguan cigars are provided.

You and your guests will need a Virginia Preserve license, which you can purchase on-line at Virginia Department of Fish and Game website.

Explore the history of Woodmont Rod & Gun Club and Woodmont of Virginia Farm, to understand the continuation of grandfather’s, Henry P. Bridges’ Woodmont Tradition, that dates back to 1881 in Hancock, Maryland. The United States Department of Agriculture’s article on the development of Woodmont of Virginia provides additional historical insight. You can also learn more about our hunting setters and their role in the Woodmont legacy.

Any other questions, feel free to call 410-830-9001 or Email at dpbridges1963@gmail.com and I look forward to a great Sportsmen hunting experience with you!

Peace,
David P. Bridges
The Cowboy Novelist & The Management
Wildlife conservationist