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HREE GENERATIONS OF GAME HUNTING
Martz’s Gap View Hunting Preserve provides experience for every age group
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Story and photos by Cindy O. Herman
o ahead and gasp. Firsttime visitors to Martz’s Gap View Hunting Preserve often do when they see the flight pens — 70 acres of wood-framed enclosures — stretched out across the rolling Pennsylvania hills.
Inside the pens are thousands of jaunty, ring-necked pheasants. With their distinctive, straight, brown tail feathers jutting out behind them like an exclamation mark, and those eyecatching, dark blue and green throat feathers stopping right at the line of white that circles their necks, they
are easily recognizable. They, along with chukar partridges, are the main draw at Martz’s Preserve. “Our most popular activity is upland game bird hunting,” said Mike Martz, third-generation owner of the Dalmatia preserve in Northumberland County. “We also
FIRST-TIME VISITORS TO MARTZ’S GAP VIEW HUNTING PRESERVE, IN DALMATIA, OFTEN GASP AT THEIR FIRST SIGHT OF THE FLIGHT PENS — ACRES OF WOOD-FRAMED CHICKEN WIRE ENCLOSURES — STRETCHED OUT ACROSS THE ROLLING PENNSYLVANIA HILLS.
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