Big Red Oak Plantation Shooting Preserve
P.O. Box 247
Gay, GA  30218
706-538-6870 (Phone)
770-915-0176 (Pager)

Plantation Hunting At Its Very Best

Now you can experience it first hand.  Close enough to town for convenience, yet far enough out in the country for real enjoyment.  Gay, Georgia is only 45 minutes from Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta.  The only things they have on shooting preserves in Albany and Thomasville that we don't have on Big Oak Plantation are rattlesnakes and gnats. 

Hunting is one of the many pleasures all sportsmen enjoy, and we offer much more.  The lodge, with three bedrooms and three baths, accommodates six quests overnight.  A regulation pool table and wet bar are provided for your entertainment.  Be sure to bring your fishing tackle and try your luck in the 25 acre lake, which is well stocked with bass and bream.  Behind the lodge, we have rifle, skeet and trap ranges to sharpen your eye.

Big Red Oak Plantation has been family owned for six generations.  The original home, located on a site across the lake from the lodge, burned in the early 1900's.  The old family cemetery still stands.  Once tenant farms covered the 3500 acres, but now pine trees and sage fields are maintained for wildlife habitat.  Where cotton was once the main crop, feed patches of bi-color lespedeza, partridge peas, clover, wheat, chufer, millet and other grains are planted.

Arthur Estes, the present owner is a life time resident and manages the plantation year round.  Mrs. Gladys Lovett, our head cook and housekeeper, prepares meals fit for a king.  Her specialties include southern fried chicken or quail, pork chops, roast beef with all the trimmings, and homemade biscuits that melt in your mouth.  She will not let leave the table hungry.  Gary Miller, the chief guide and dog trainer, has professionally trained hunting and field trial champions for over thirty years.  He is also a certified hunter safety instructor.  All of our guides are experienced hunters and dog handlers.  Courtesy and safety are their main concerns assuring that you will not want to return again and again.

Rates

Season begins October 1 and ends March 31.  No license required.  Blanket Preserve License covers quail and chukar hunts only.

Guided Hunts (includes guides, dogs, Jeeps, refreshments and license)