Hot Breakfast

Continental breakfast has now been replaced by a fresh hot breakfast served in the Main Lodge. Whether it is piping hot homemade biscuits and gravy, fresh sausage patties, pancakes, or eggs, there is surely something your stomach will crave. Oatmeal, grits, fresh fruits, and juices are also available in addition to premium coffee.

Join your group at your private table and enjoy the food and friendship as you anticipate your day ahead.

The Morning Session

Settle in and get started with our elite trainers. These pros will teach you how to set up our custom rifles and adjust the scope. After that, you’ll learn the basics of ballistics, including how bullets, velocity, trajectory, distance, and wind affect your shots. You’ll move from studying to shooting in about 90 minutes.

Next, you’ll move to the open range to discuss communication between a shooter and spotter, learn to use the range finder, and prepare your body position for the initial shots. This 30-minute session will create a strong bond between partners as you realize that you are a team, relying on each other for success.

Finally, the moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived. Using the morning’s lessons and additional instructor guidance, you’ll begin hitting targets from 100 to 600 yards. The rest of your morning will be spent honing, refining, and perfecting your long-range skills.

Lunch at PNF

Following your successful morning shooting, there’s no doubt you’ve worked up an appetite. Your group will be treated to a delicious lunch back at the Main Lodge. Mmm! Mmm! Wonder what’s for lunch today?

This time is set aside for our guests to catch up on calls and emails that they may have missed during the morning hunt, do some quick bass fishing in Paul’s Pond, if desired or simply relax in your private room or one of our many executive lounges.

And, if the morning shoot has you fired up, the afternoon will take you to a whole new level as you reach for that 1-mile shot.

Afternoon Shooting

After being well fed and a brief recovery, it’s time for an unforgettable experience and unrivaled afternoon of extreme long-range shooting across our vast array of targets. Load up for your 3-minute cart over to The Range. We will pick up right where we left off.

The next 3 hours will be unforgettable; filled with much shooting, continuous learning, and gained experience. The time will pass with incredible speed as we increase distances from the morning 100-600 yard, through 600-1,000 yards and on to 1,000-1,500 yards capping off with a 1-mile shot. You will absolutely develop a close tie with your partner, as shooter and spotter work as one hitting numerous targets and varied distances and wind factors.

As your skill continues to improve and your training advances, our elite instructors will press you with challenges to test your learned knowledge enabling you to see your own development in action. You are now very comfortable shooting and spotting various distances, you understand wind and can adjust for it, and you can set your body up for successful shot positions.

It is time for you to take aim 1-mile ahead. Extreme long-range shooting shared with friends and creating lifelong memories; this is The Range experience at Paul Nelson Farm.

Conversation and Cocktails

Great conversation will be in full gear and memorable moments will be shared. Relive the events of the day in front of the fireplace or by one of our outdoor fire pits or the balcony of one of our lodges watching an amazing South Dakota sunset. Hot hors d’oeuvres will be served for your group’s enjoyment including pheasant prepared in many different ways, jumbo shrimp, and specialty dips. Cocktails are available at each of our eight fully stocked bars, and it is likely a sporting event will be playing on the TVs.

Dinner

Nothing can bring a group together like Dinner – truly a time to enjoy your group at their own table. Whether the evening menu is mouth-watering Prime rib, pheasant & wild rice, pork chops or Paul’s prime steaks, we are certain this will be a time to celebrate and remember the day and the people together. 90+ point bottles of wine, premium homemade meals, friendly conversation, a tasty dessert, and an after-dinner drink will make for a memorable feast. And on that lucky evening, the sound of Cheryl on the harp will bring the room to life with an ambiance unsurpassed at Paul Nelson Farm.

Lounge Around The Lodge

By this time of the day, most of our guests are looking for a comfortable chair in front of the fireplace, watching a game on the movie theater screen, socializing with table shuffleboard and drinks in one of our lounges or enjoying a cigar in one of our designated poker/smoker rooms… Could there be a better way to end a day with close friends and associates?

And when you have finally reached the end of your day, lumber into your own private room. Your plush bed and linens will help provide a quiet night on the prairie with un-interrupted sleep finding you rejuvenated in the morning with the fact that you get to do it all again!