Chapter News Update - March 2025

Presidents Report

We are just a couple of weeks away from the 34th Brown County Pheasants Forever Banquet and Family Fun Night. We hope to see you attend the upcoming banquet March 22, 2025, being held again at the Sleepy Eye Event Center.

Now is the time to get your tickets. Please scan the QR code or go to the following link to get tickets: Get Tickets Here !

For all attendees to the banquet for faster checkin bring your printed ticket with the QR code on it. By just scanning the QR code gets you checked in fast.

We will have many past activities and some new ones for all to enjoy. Bring your friends and family and come join us for our annual fundraising event. All the monies we raise at this event, less the membership fee stay in Brown County for us to decide how to use them to provide better outdoors and hunting experiences.

Again, mark your calendars for the 2025 BCPF Annual Banquet to be held March 22, 2025, at the Sleepy Eye Event Center and we hope to see you there. More details on tickets and the event are highlighted below.

The 2025 BCPF banquet will be held on Saturday March 22, 2025, at the Sleepy Eye Event Center.

Tickets this year can be purchased online or at the door only! If you purchase at the door they will be at premium price. Anyone who does not wish to purchase tickets online may reach out to Tim directly for assistance.

Ticket(s) and ticket packages are as follows:

Silver Sponsorship - Individual or Couple's Package

Price: $250.00

Gold Sponsorship - Family Package

Price: $350.00

Platinum Sponsorship - Corporate or Table (8) Package

Price: $1,200.00

Associate Membership + Meal Ticket

Price: $75.00

Spouse or Life Member Meal "Only" Ticket

Price: $25.00 "MUST be current Life Member of PF" or spouse with paying Adult Member.

On-site Adult Associate + Meal (In-Person Only, Day of Event)

Price: $100.00

Youth Ages 5-15 (Ringneck) Membership + Meal Ticket

Price: $15.00

Student Ages 16-25 (Student) Membership + Meal Ticket

Price: $50.00

New Life Membership + Meal Ticket + Package

Price: $1,500.00

Note: If you are already signed for “Auto-Renewal” of your Pheasants Forever Membership, you will have your membership fee of $35 deducted from the ticket price. It is already set to auto-renewal on your renewal date. If you want to sign up for Auto-Renewal it will give you this option when purchasing banquet tickets.

Tickets can be purchased now at: Get Tickets Here! or Scan the QR Code below.

Games & Activities

Many games and activities will be like past events, but we are hoping to add some new ones as well. Some of these are:

Shot-shell game
Field of Dreams
Women's buy-a-shot raffle
Scheel's banner raffle
Ford F-150 truck raffle
Gun board(s) raffle
Live auction
Shot-n-Sizzle live auction
General raffle
Cooler full of pork raffle
Pallet of beer
Kids raffle
Hunters Dream raffle
... and more

We take pride in having great prizes including many guns. Many of our guns are unique and with Pheasants Forever logos and are true collector items.

Shoot & Sizzle No. 1
Pheasants Forever ALPs OutdoorZ Lay-Z-Loungers
Shoot & Sizzle No. 2
2025 Print-of-the-Year "Finding Shelter” by Scott Storm
Shoot & Sizzle No. 3
Pheasants Forever Rooster Tales Metal Sign
Shoot & Sizzle No. 4
Elk Print “Chorus”, by Marion Rose
Shoot & Sizzle No. 5
Schell’s Grain Belt Neon Pheasant Sign (See Sign Below)
Shoot & Sizzle No. 6
Pheasants Forever Yeti PF Tundra Cooler
Shoot & Sizzle No. 7
Pheasants Forever Ruffland Kennel
Shoot & Sizzle No. 8
Pheasants Forever Shut-the-Box Game
Shoot & Sizzle No. 9
Pheasants Forever Custom Fire Pit, donated by Booth Welding
Shoot & Sizzle No. 10
Ivanhoe Pheasant Hunt (See Restrictions), donated by Bill Fischer
Shoot & Sizzle No. 11 (Final and 1:3 Odds)

This year's Hunters Dream raffle is a bit different. Instead of winner take all, we will be drawing three (3) winners. Each winning ticket (in order of draw) will be allowed to choose one of the three prizes. The first, drawn winner will have the first choice of prize numbers 1 through 3. The second, drawn winner gets next choice and third, drawn winner gets the last prize.

Prize Number 1:

(1) Browning Citron O/U 12 ga. Shotgun

Prize Number 2:

(1) Weatherby Orion O/U 20 ga. Shotgun and

(1) Weatherby Model 307 6.5 CM Meat Eater Addition Rifle

Prize Number 3:

(1) Banks Stump 2 Phantom Deer Blind 

Costs: $20 per ticket and approximately 700 tickets will be sold.  They are very few tickets left for this raffle. Reach out to any BCPF Board Member for tickets.

The gun prizes will require FFL background checks.

Drawing will be Held: March 22, 2025, 8:30-9:00 PM at the Sleepy Eye Event Center during the 2025 Brown County Annual PF Banquet and is open to the public. See "Events Page" to purchase tickets to the 2025 Banquet & Family Fun Night". 

Note: Brown County PF Chapter reserves the right to change any item for this raffle if it is not available. Any substitutions will be at a similar value and item. Tickets will be sold prior to the event and Not Be Available at the event itself.

At this year's banquet, we will be making several changes to comply with MN Gambling Commission requirements. Some of these are as follows:

We will not be allowed to have Rooster Bucks in any ticket packages.
No one under 18 can play the raffles or games. We will have a separate set of youth activities and prizes.
Most guns will not be allowed to be taken home the night of the event. The ATF is making it difficult to complete any FFL type transfer at these types of events. Some of the guns we will try and have the FFL transfer completed at the event. This will not be possible from any gun we have purchased from Scheel’s. All guns won will be transferred at the place of the FFL location where we acquired them.
We have had a nearly 95% online ticket sales last year. We will still be mailing out postage announcement for tickets, but all tickets will be required to be purchased through the online system. We will work with anyone who wants to mail a check to us, and we will complete the transaction for them. Tim Kraskey will take the lead on this and help anyone who needs assistance in procuring tickets.

We hope that these changes, which are beyond our control, will not impact your decision to attend our event and support the mission. We want to thank you in advance for everyone’s participation in this event.

The monies we receive through donations, fund raising, and membership are critical to us enhancing or purchasing lands for all the public to enjoy. We encourage everyone to renew their membership to Pheasants Forever or upgrade to a Lifetime membership.

Pheasants Forever is the only national organization with a model of chapters keeping 100% of the funds they raise. While belonging to a larger national organization that has a voice on federal and state conservation policies, chapters are tasked with finding projects for their funds. Minnesota takes full advantage of this model using funds raised for projects locally as well as other areas in the state of Minnesota.

Go to Why Participate? And, Join or Renew your Membership to help us grow!

BROWN COUNTY PHEASANT’S FOREVER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
FOUNDED 38 YEARS AGO and SPENT OVER $5 MILLION in Brown County for HABITAT.
OVER 500 HABITAT PROJECTS benefiting OVER 5,000 ACRES on PRIVATE land.
PRESERVED OVER 3,500 ACRES for PUBLIC ENJOYMENT & HUNTING. Brown County has NEARLY 40 WMA/WPAs encompassing OVER 5,000 ACRES.
BROWN COUNTY HAS OVER 24,000 acres in HABITAT.
HOSTS AND PARTICIPATES IN ANNUAL MENTORED YOUTH HUNTS with more than 200 KIDS PARTICIPATING
SUPPORT our LOCAL TRAP SHOOTING TEAMS.
PARTICIPATE in MN DNR Adopt-a-WMA program. Planting food plots, replacing signs, removing trash & barb wire, creating parking areas, and more.