
Pheasant Fest 2025
- Fin2Feather
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Pheasant Fest 2025
Attended the show in Kansas City Saturday. Walked the show twice; similar to every other trade show (and I used to work them for a living!). Was surprised that there weren't Pheasant Fest t-shirts or hats or similar "souvenir" items for sale. It was cool to see and meet the dogs; I was a little disappointed that there were so many stores or online retailers with piles of the same goods you can buy every day, but I guess it make sense. Some were offering discounts. LOTS of outfitters/lodges/pay-to-hunt outfits; I think every town in South Dakota was there
. I listened in briefly on a couple of the sessions but nothing held my interest long enough to sit through. I did learn about an organization dedicated to preserving public access hunting which I intend to investigate further; that is something I care deeply about. I'm glad I went, but frankly there wasn't much to make me want to attend another. Just one old codger's opinion, YMMV and probably will
. I mostly hung out at the Parker and LC Smith booths; no Fox booth to visit
. Someone snapped this pic of some old fat guy with a very sweet little Parker PH in 20ga...


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- Jeff S
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Re: Pheasant Fest 2025
Nice picture and thanks for the report. I have never attended. Jeff
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Re: Pheasant Fest 2025
I’ve often wondered how Pheasant Fest is. Like Jeff I’ve never attended either. I have seen several on line retailers I frequent had special Pheasant Fest discounts so probably a good way to get their product in front of a target audience and drive some off season sales. Thanks for the report. Curious what your feedback is on the booth activity at the Parker and LC Smith tables.
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Re: Pheasant Fest 2025
Did you eventually have to give "Phil's gun" back to it's rightful owner? Asking for a friend.
Thanks for the report.
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Re: Pheasant Fest 2025
This was my first one. Traffic was good at both booths I'm told. I know the Parker guys signed up several new members; don't know about sign-ups at the Smith booth. Yeah Daryl, and believe me it was hard
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Re: Pheasant Fest 2025
As a former member of the BOD I lobbied low to medium-hard for participating in this event. Now that I am retired from the BOD and a wealthy government retiree to boot, I may revisit the urge to make the journey. Always liked the Twin Cities. one of only 2 locations (the other one was Denver) I ever considered when I got laid off from my job in KC in the early 1970s. Neither panned out so I returned to the Chesapeake country and never looked back. Kevin