Bardrochat Pheasant Farm

Welcome

If you are ready for a different experience from a regular game farm you have come to the right place. We provide English style guided days with challenging driven and crossing birds. This is wingshooting at it's best!

Bardrochat is a century old farm located a convenient 90 minutes by car north west of Toronto's Pearson Airport. It comprises small fields (usually stubble and hay) bordered with old hedgerows containing the original cedar rail fences. Ideal cover for those wily cock pheasants!

Imagine on a cold fall day, frost in the air, the cackle of cock pheasants flushing followed by a covey of Chukar breaking over the guns... that's what makes a day memorable and that's our goal here at Bardrochat... you will want to come again and again!

We specialize is providing fast, driven birds in the English style suitable for teams of 5/6 guns. If your current hunting experiences have only been at a regular game farm it's time to try something different. For those of you fortunate enough to have shot in the UK may we suggest you give us a try at a fraction of the cost.

Visit us once and we're sure you'll return for more excitement, good company and great memories from a days hunting in the outdoors.

See where it all happens
Our full day package includes beaters and dogs to flush and retrieve the birds. Guns are welcome to bring their own canine hunting companions by prior arrangement. Lunch is also included.

Season
Open every day except Sunday the season runs from September through January. We recommend you book your day(s) well in advance to avoid disappointment.

Pricing
We can customize a package to suit your individual or group needs and we suggest you contact us to discuss your requirements. Please see the Contact Us page in our website.

2007 - 2008 Season Commentary

We hope this finds you well and looking forward to another season…we are excited about the prospects and hope you will join us to shoot this year.

Last season started off well but by the beginning of December we were impacted by snow resulting in some cancellations. Despite the weather we were able to continue shooting until January 12th before closing for the season. All things considered, it was a good season and we had the pleasure of hosting several new groups and making some new friends.

We are raising an increased number of birds for this season to accommodate some additional shooting days and will contine to have some chukar to add to the mix of birds when desired.

The new cover strips added last year to augment existing drives have been retained for this season. A new drive from a large corn strip has been added in the field in the northwest part of the farm. This will be driven after lunch from west to east over the lane. We are also going to locate a chukar pen in this strip.

We will be open for some late September “walk abouts” if anyone is interested and start our driven days in October.

We continue to hear about the price of things increasing in the news and this is true for our game farm as well as regular farming operations. The increased costs are being driven mainly by the cost of seed corn and fertilizer for cover crops, bird feed and diesel fuel. Although our price per bird has been stable for many years we are at a point where we feel we need to increase the charge per bird for the coming season.

If you are considering coming to see us this fall and chasing some pheasants about we would urge you to book your day(s) as soon as you can to avoid disappointment. Jan and I are looking forward to having the pleasure of your company for a memorable day at Bardrochat.

Policies and Conditions

Guests must hold a valid Ontario Outdoors Card or non-resident licence and current Firearms Acquisition/Possession Certificate (PAL).

Safety is always our first concern and we do request that you wear hunter-orange gear and break shotguns are preferred.

We may cancel hunts due to unforeseen conditions or circumstances.

Individuals are required to carry personal liability insurance to comply with our insurance arrangements. Membership of Ontario Anglers and Hunters is accepted.

We also reserve the right to cancel or stop hunts at any time due to unsafe actions or conditions.