Thorn Bottom Hunting

Thorn Bottom Hunting started in 1996 when Brad Dysinger came home to Paulding County after 23 years in trap shooting and working for Beretta USA. He and his wife Ann built the operation around a simple philosophy: offer the kind of wild pheasant hunting Brad remembered from childhood, not the commercialized preserve model.

"I defiantly didn't want a 'kicking chickens' type preserve that you had to throw the pheasants to get them to fly."

Wild bird hunting, not a shooting gallery. Every aspect of Thorn Bottom's year-round land management—wetlands, brush piles, oxbows, woods, and food plots—supports genuinely wild hunting conditions. When your group books a hunt, you get your own private area. No other hunters in your space.

Private hunting areas: 25 to 160 acres depending on group size and terrain preference. You're not sharing ground or competing with other parties.

Professional guides and dogs trained to work wild birds in natural conditions.

Book now to reserve birds. Hot weather is hard on the dogs, so early frost in October and cool spring weather determine exact season timing.

• •Flame orange is mandatory
• •Eye protection required
• •Ohio residents need an Ohio hunting license
• •Non-Ohio residents need a license from their home state OR must have passed a hunter safety course