Latest / The Source – The Jorgensen Land & Cattle Podcast / Episode 11: Inside the Lazy J Sporting Club | Hunting, Events & What's Next
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- speaker-0: Mm-hmm. speaker-1: Over a hundred years of experience lie in Ideal South Dakota. The team at Jorgensen Lanning Cattle is going to take the time to offer insight into that experience along with many other industry experts. If you're ready to learn and grow, this is the Source. Well, good morning everybody. Welcome to the Source Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Wolf. ⁓ as always, happy to bring you another episode. ⁓ Typically you guys get a lot of cattle and a lot of farming on this epis on this podcast. ⁓ and hands up accountability. ⁓ I I've failed to really focus on on that third aspect of this business, so So really happy to have an episode coming for you guys that ⁓ that we're gonna talk about the Lazy Jay Sporting Club. joined by Regan Nielsen and Patrick Sanders, and I'm gonna let them both ⁓ introduce themselves, what their roles are at Jorgens and Landon Cattle and the Lazy J Sporting Club, and then we'll go from there. So Patrick, let's start with you. speaker-0: Yep, as he said, thank you for that introduction. My name is Patrick Sanders and I am the sales and guest experience manager at the Lazy J Sporting Club. speaker-1: Patrick, tell tell the folks ⁓ where you're from and ⁓ how long you've been with with the J and ⁓ a little bit more there. speaker-0: Yeah, absolutely. So I'm originally I'm a Nebraska boy. I was born in the panhandle, Gordon, Nebraska, born and raised. ⁓ I joined the Lazy J team in May of this year, along with a couple other ⁓ important people over there just starting. and I've got a background ⁓ it's kind of kinda all over the place. I've got some hospitality, I've got some business sales and then I worked at a prison. So a little bit of everything. Yeah. ⁓ super excited to join the team. It's been we've been busy and we look to continue to be busy. So it's been an honor and an absolute joy. speaker-1: Perfect. Thank you. And now Regan, if you would please. speaker-2: Yeah, I'm Reagan Nielsen. I have been at Jorgensen Land and Cattle for just over two years now. And I joined the Lazy J Sporting Club team unofficially, sometime in 2025 to just kinda help with some HR things over there, which is part of my role here at Jorgensen Land and Cattle. I'm the the chief administrative officer over here and so I stepped in over there to help with some things and then the position grew exponentially when we had a lot of team tur turnover in earlier this earlier in 2026 and and I am now the director of operations over at the Lady's J Sporting Club. And I have had the honor of helping build our now awesome team over there. We have had a total restructuring of of the leadership over at the lodge and it has been all for the best. We have hired three new people specifically just for the lodge, just ⁓ starting in April of 2026. We have our new chef that joined us in April. His name is Adam. And then we had Troy Lance join us. He is our outdoor ops leader. And then of course we had Patrick join us ⁓ in the same month as Troy in May. And so while we are a very new baby team we have hit the ground running and I am just so impressed with what those three guys have done so far in the last couple months. speaker-1: Yeah, absolutely. And just a little bit more background on you, Regan, they know a little bit of it, but ⁓ but you are actually a Jorgens. speaker-2: I am, yes. I am Brian's third, third child. I'm the youngest. I am Nick's sister, Cody's cousin, Philip's cousin, and Greg's niece. So ⁓ it truly is an honor. I I think I said this in one of the very first episodes, but it is such an honor to work for the family business. It's an opportunity that I didn't ever think I would have and it has been a huge blessing the last two years. speaker-1: And worth noting for the cattle folks out there, ⁓ if you're leasing bulls with an N brand, that's also tied directly to Reagan as her husband Blake Nielsen is one of our one of our cooperators that ⁓ that definitely does does an outstanding job. We're extremely happy to have him on that team as well. So all these fingers interlock as we talk about Jordan Salana cattle. Well perfect. Well thank you guys. Reagan or Patrick, I'm not quite sure who wants to take this. ⁓ going back to to some of our innovation episodes and and a lot of conversations that we've had with with Cody and Brian, we've talked talked a lot about the history of what was the Lazy J Grand Lodge, now the Lazy J Sporting Club. ⁓ you guys want to just kind of give a brief rundown ⁓ when the lodge was built and ⁓ what it was built on basically as far as as structure there and then we'll we'll dive in a little further. speaker-2: Sure. I know in previous episodes, ⁓ my dad Brian has has talked a lot about the history of the lodge. So I'll say that from what I've learned from him. ⁓ the lodge was between my mom and dad and Cody and Abbey and they kind of thought this up ⁓ one year and it was built in eight to ten months. I mean it was a very, very fast project, and it was a labor of love for sure. And my parents and Cody and Abby ran that diligently for over over ten years. And then ⁓ you know, as As things do, seasons change and new people came in, and ⁓ they're very still very much ⁓ owners and leaders of of the lodge. Just it's just a little it's just looking a little bit different now. The it had actually changed to the sporting club before I had stepped in, so that was a really neat change in anticipation of the 18-hole golf course, which is still very much ⁓ in the works on track. So the sporting club just encompasses more what we want to offer now. We had started out the lazy dragon grand lodge, it started as a pheasant hunting lodge. and it ran so successfully for so many years and I do feel Nick was a big part of he he he is such a big thinker. Nick and Cody and Brian together just thought you know this thing can grow a lot more. So the sporting clump better encompasses what we can do now. ⁓ So it has been a really really good change. So I will actually let Patrick kind of talk about what we can what we can offer. speaker-0: Yeah, absolutely. So as a sporting club, right now on our menu, we obviously have the hunting, the pheasant hunting. ⁓ this year we've added dove hunting ⁓ to the slate, so that'll run nine one through eleven sixteen through so just standard dove season. And that that's that's always gonna be our base. Even when there's a golf course there, the the pheasant hunting is gonna be the base of the operation. right now, they can also add we have a full ⁓ ten spot sporting clays. And then we do offer traditional trap as well. In addition to that, we I know un I know I just said the base is h the pheasant hunting and that's our focus. But so much of what we can do and can offer goes well beyond, you know, hunting. ⁓ we want to bring in locals for our we do a monthly social. Reagan does a great job of mixing things up. ⁓ so it's not just the same thing. month to month plug and play. ⁓ like recently we did a collaboration with the honey with Dakota Honey and Remedy Brewing. And we had the lazy bee, which was like a blue moon on steroids, and it went over really well. We d we did branded cups with it and it was an overall really great experience. Just since I've started, we've seen our socials just grow each each month, month over month, and it's just steady we don't have like a boom and then a drop off. It's it's a nice measurable steady growth and we foresee that happening across the board at Lazy Jay. So we want to do multiple weddings a month outside of hunting season. We want to do corporate retreats, deals like we're doing with you, Jamie, and your group. And what that what your group really does well in highlighting what we can do is we can really offer what anything that you can think of. If we've got enough time, we've got the resources and we've got the people to make it happen. speaker-1: So let's let's I think that's a really good overview of of opportunity there at the Lazy J. So what I want you to do now now Patrick and Reagan feel free to jump in anywhere here where where you think we're missing something. Let's talk about what the bread and butter at the Lazy J is and when I book a hunt with a set of buddies, what is that four day experience gonna be for us when we come to the lazy J. speaker-0: Our bread and butter in the hunting season is our signature package. It's a it's a come in on Wednesday, depart Sunday is the standard structure that we've used in the past. we have changed things around to add three day, two day and one day hunting opportunities, but the signature four day i it seems is always gonna be the most popular. and what that looks like is you call me or I call you. Hopefully I'm doing my job and I'm reaching out to folks and we settle on a set of dates for you and your buddies. We are gonna handle everything that you can imagine. We handle the licensing. We will arrange your transportation. We're not we're not gonna book your flight, but we're gonna be there with a sign to pick you up once you land. Once you say yes and we make that proposal final, we take care of you and that's what we strive to do with all of our customers whether it's hunting or it's business or it's wedding. We want you as the customer to feel no stress and we want you to know that you are well taken care of. speaker-2: And a and a good note to throw in there is a a big change that we implemented this year was ⁓ hunt blocks. So historically our you know, especially since we've become a preserve, ⁓ our hunts are over by 11 or noon, everybody reaches their limit. So introducing these AM and PM hunt blocks just offers more opportunity to get hunters out to do what they came here to do, which was to pheasant hunt. So this has been a really, really neat way and it's really grown. It started as AM, PM hunt. Blocks, but it has grown to really encapsulate how we how we offer our amenities. You want to go pheasant hunting in the morning, you want to come in for lunch, you want to go do sporting plays in the afternoon? Awesome. ⁓ and that will translate perfectly for when the golf course is is here and ready. You can go get your pheasant hunting done in the morning, you can go golf in the afternoon, vice versa. It will be a huge game change, even just this year. When we don't we don't quite have that golf yet, it will be a game changer for the guests that come to see like what. wow, this is what we can offer during the day. It's not just which if people want to hunt, eat lunch, and then drink for the rest of the day, that that is that is their will. But now there are more options and it is just gonna continue to grow as we get more and more amenities. speaker-1: Right. And so that's ⁓ that hunt, Patrick and Reagan would be a a get in on Wednesday night, and then you would you would hunt Thursday, Friday, Saturday, go home Sunday morning, is that correct? speaker-0: Yep, yep. And then what we have done is to really maximize the value of that signature package, they do get AM and PM hunts on that Friday. I think ultimately they can pick if their whole group wants to do the d you know, morning, afternoon on Thursday. Like we can do that, but as a standard practice we're putting it in the middle. But what we've seen a lot of and really had a positive reaction to is the addition of like dove hunting. ⁓ speaker-1: ⁓ that was gonna be my next question, you know, if I wanna put it to the morning dubs in the afternoon. speaker-0: She's Yeah, because ⁓ you know it, driving to the office every day. You could you could catch a dove with a with like a butterfly net. Like it is insane the amount of doves. And Troy's prospected some great locations to get our our hunters out there and get ⁓ on the birds early. so that's and it it just coincides perfectly with our our preserve season. It does. You know, since we are preserved, we get a start nine one, which is dove opening as well. So we're we're looking to have those people who come in early take advantage of both at the height of the season. season. So it's gonna be an incredible, incredible season. speaker-1: And so let's say I'm not somebody that hunts a lot, ⁓ coming in with a with a group of buddies or whatever, ⁓ gun rambles available, those kinds of things, ⁓ shells, Patrick touched on that a little bit. speaker-0: Yep, so like I said, ⁓ we provide everything to the experience that we can. we we have a stable of dogs. We actually just picked up an a new hunt dog. ⁓ I believe it got in this morning at about two AM. We do the licensing, we handle that. We have guides ⁓ for each group. So I guess maybe going over how how it'll look each day going into a hunting block. so you go, you eat our chef prepared breakfast, ⁓ Thursday morning and then you're gonna go through a quick safety protocol with Troy and your guides and we're just gonna do a rundown. Hey, you know, these are the rules. Barrels forward, not not sideways. up is, you know, preferred. then they're gonna load you up and take you out to your hunting plot or your food plot or wherever Troy and the guides have stuck you that morning. And then they're gonna they take it from there, right? So it's standard wall guided pheasant hunting. you get done, you come back in, we've got that sh chef prepared meal for you for lunch as well. And then like Reagan said, if you're a one and done and gonna hit the whiskey, like we've got a bar. You are welcome to do that. if you're wanting to get out and dove hunt, if you're wanting to get out do sporting plays, do trap, we've got that available too. So we've got a nice standard structure set with plenty of opportunity to really fill up your day. speaker-1: You bet. That's ⁓ that's perfect. And for those of you that have seen seen video from inside the lodge, you know know what the bar looks like and if you've seen any of our actual production sales stuff, ⁓ That room which you see us have production sales in is actually at the sporting club. And ⁓ the big room that we do the sales in is actually what you guys call the bullroom where you house all your vehicles, that's where you guys start your day and there's bar in there as well. Correct, Patrick. speaker-2: And some new changes this year, just since Patrick mentioned the bar, with the addition to of our new chef, our food program has it is it is exploded e exponentially. It is incredible. Chef Adam is doing an incredible job. As well with the bartenders, we are introducing signature cocktails this year that actually the whole leadership team together ⁓ came together and kind of helped create and curate this cocktail menu. It's something that we haven't seen before. So it's just ⁓ the cocktails have been incredible. incredibly successful at our social events. So I feel like that was kind of a fun test run to see how you know the public was going to react to these. And and the the response has been incredible. At our last social actually we sold the most cocktails we've had out of any of the socials. So we thought a curated menu specifically for hunting season would would be a hit and I and I do think it is going to be for sure. speaker-1: Yeah, we we broke Chef Adam in right. His first big event was was old pre-sale dinner and he had to have a hundred and twenty five steaks. And I was one of the last ones to eat and it was still medium rare ⁓ just how I like it. ⁓ speaker-2: Chef Atten hadn't even been been with us. Yeah, he hadn't even been with us for two weeks at that point. That was trial by fire. speaker-1: Yeah, that was yeah, full blown trial by fire. So really happy to have him on the team as well. So Reagan, ⁓ Patrick really laid out what what the foundation has been for for the goings on at the Lazy J for what has been the last ten to fifteen years roughly. Take us through some of the other things that you guys can do. at the lazy J. ⁓ and Patrick mentioned an event that ⁓ that the the marketing and sales team at Jorgensen Lanic Cattle's gonna have. We can use that as an example if you want to. ⁓ but go ahead and just kinda dive into to that corporate wedding ⁓ venue side of it that certainly is a great ⁓ option. speaker-2: So your built to last event is actually a perfect example of what we can offer because you are really going to be hitting every area that ⁓ almost that the Lazy J Sporting Club can offer. So, you know, you had you had called us about a corporate event. We are going to have ⁓ your classroom set up in the bullroom. So we have a projector, we have you know all the AV equipment that you'll need to host a class out there. ⁓ the catered lunches will be out in the bullroom. We'll have the bar open in the bullroom. But the part that we are really excited about, Jamie, is that you're gonna be utilizing the sporting place course. That is such an under Utilize asset at the sporting club, and it's something that our marketing team, Shannon and Boston, are gonna do some incredible work really pushing. They have done some great work updating the website to more match our current amenities and our current, you know, messaging that we want to be offering. So, like with your event, it would be the perfect perfect way to utilize the sporting clays course and really show ⁓ what a unique it truly is such a unique amenity, I think, especially for our area. So, you know, you think corporate. events do you think bachelor parties I think we would be the ideal location for a bachelor party ⁓ wedding receptions we we've hit on those and I know Patrick is has some awesome connections that we're I think that side of our business is really going to explode in the next couple years. Other things we can do and things that we want to do more community driven ⁓ Valentine's Day dinners ⁓ just general holiday dinners our monthly socials are going to continue just as something to just as another thing to do in in our area that is something I really want to emphasize the family has wanted to do for years. People our family has just wanted people in the lodge. They just want people to come enjoy the beauty inside the lodge, but also specifically outside. I mean the beautiful country that we're blessed with, right right south of the lodge. ⁓ That is such a huge goal for me personally 'cause it's been so important to my family to just get people in our lodge to enjoy it as well. So I mean we just have endless opportunities of things that that can that can happen at the lodge. speaker-1: Right. And so I guess, you know, from from somebody that's thinking about maybe a corporate event, something like that. You know, for us, ⁓ looking at, you know, twenty two rooms in the lodge, is that correct? Yep. So so we're focused on fifteen to twenty young producers to come in. ⁓ for us it really makes a lot of sense 'cause we will be doing s wet labs with some cattle that, you know proximity to office is is very handy there, but ⁓ the ability to have everybody together in the same place ⁓ with nobody traveling back to the hotel. the bar is four steps from where you're gonna sleep that night. ⁓ it provides the ability to drive those networking opportunities and that you know for me when we thought through this event it was like Yeah, we want ⁓ to interact with us, the Jorgensalantic Cattle. But as much as anything, we want ⁓ interact with each other. Because whether you're in Patrick's business managing a lodge or our business selling bulls, you're a commercial cattleman, you have those daily frustrations and building that group of folks that you can call and say, Man, today just was not much fun. and have that unbiased outside person that that's just gonna gonna be there to be be part of your team. That that as much as anything using the lodge as an opportunity to drive those interactions is I think something that that's probably undersold on on that part of it as well. speaker-2: Yep, absolutely. speaker-0: Yeah, what what we are is you got when you step back and you look at it, we're a self contained unit that can offer everything from A to Z. So if you've got a group of fifteen to twenty, like we've said we've got twenty two rooms. ⁓ the bowl room is plenty spacious enough for you know, that that group of twenty. Our weddings I mean, we're gonna in the next couple of weeks we're gonna have a wedding in there with a hundred and fifty people. and it's gonna be just fine. ⁓ but everything from A to Z is taken care of internally. So you're not having to worry about working with vendors. You don't have to worry about travel. ⁓ you know, what if what if Steve had too much the night before? Like, ⁓ my gosh, you know, like you said, you're just down the hall. And we've touched on it a couple of times. Adam Adam provides a high level dining experience, whether it's for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. So really the reasons not to host your next event there, it you know, the scales start to really tip because there's Nothing nothing you can tell me that I can't overcome with the objection that we can take care of in-house. speaker-1: And you know, Regan touched on this a little bit. I know you guys have gotten gotten really outside the box for for our upcoming event. ⁓ something that that we flagged was that ⁓ to to get these people to come for us, ⁓ they were gonna want to bring families. ⁓ touch on how you've thought outside the box and you and Patrick work together to to everybody thinks ideal South Dakota, what else are you know, what else are we gonna do? speaker-2: So the family and especially the wife aspect, like the spouse aspect has been really untapped ⁓ previously. And you know, Jamie, you and I had talked last year and we had talked about having, you know, kind of a wives day before before the cow sale. And you know, that that didn't quite eventuate, but Patrick worked really hard for this built to last event to think of what can a spouse do, what can a child do? And I'll let Patrick touch a lot of a lot of it, but some things that I am personally very excited about that we can offer We can offer charcuterie classes and wine tastings. You can move, you can do the charcuterie, you can do the wine tasting, move right into a paint and sip class. We can offer ⁓ floral classes. I work part-time at the floral shop in winter, so I have good connections there doing you know ⁓ an arrangement making class. We have ⁓ Nick's wife Ashley as a sourdough whiz. You know, she could come in and do a sourdough class. The options are endless, and that is what is exciting for us to think about. But Patrick even brought some more really neat ideas to it if you want to. Yeah. speaker-0: Yeah, so so many times I've been a part of these events where it's like, ⁓ yeah, bring your spouse, they'll have fun and they ha you know, they don't really have anything set up, you know, they get to go to the socials at the end of the day and they get to have a couple glasses of wine, but really they're interacting with people they already know and they're not highlighted. So what we wanted to ensure was when they step foot at the sporting club is they they were the highlight. Like you guys are gonna go off and you're gonna have your meetings and you're gonna do your stuff. So we wanted to fill their days. So immediately upon arrival we've got a it's ladies' night for them, so there's gonna be unique cocktails, priced for the ladies especially. and then that next morning, if ladies night is a success, like they might be a little droggy. So we're gonna have I V therapy available for ⁓ We're gonna have a masseuse in house where they're able to sign up and She is gonna bring her chair in and she's gonna knock everybody out. And then like Reagan said, then after after they've limbered up and they feel good again, we've got multiple activities for them ⁓ planned. So this is an event where they are gonna come as the plus one, but they've really been made the focus. And it was it was that opportunity that like Reagan said, we found it very exciting. So we really pushed ourselves to uncover, you know, unique opportunities and unique things for them to do so that they did feel like, you know, this was done for them. speaker-1: for for me, you know, with my father being a veterinarian all of my childhood, ⁓ you go to places like Sioux Falls or Rapid City for for their big meetings. ⁓ veterinarians obviously have to do continuing eds, so they don't have a choice, they have to go. Yep. And so, you know, it was always, well, what do we do? What does mom have to do to figure out how to entertain the kids? ⁓ all of those kinds of things. And so I think you guys really spending the time thinking outside the box of you know, whether it's mom or or mom's the one in the meeting and dad's along taking care of the kids, what are the what are the outside the box things that we can do that, you know, if anything, you know, the kids are taken care of by somebody else for a couple of hours and and dad can go sit in a massage chair and and have a cocktail and relax for for an hour. You know, just those outside the box kinds of things that I think will really really elevate your opportunities at at the lazy jade. speaker-0: Well and again what what we made you know, hard to turn down is you put us up against, you know, another location and you can do all those things, yeah, but you're gonna have to get into a sprinter van and you're gonna have to get drove down and and everybody's gonna sit there and they're gonna wait their turn and And then it's ⁓ we got our we got our sip and paint, you know, it's eight it's eight blocks away, we're gonna go do that now. And it's like we took away all the gross grossness of what that is. Like nobody likes to sit in a sprinter van or a big you know, bus or whatever and get hauled around and then, you know, check in for your activ yep, I'm here. Yep. So what we did was we got rid of all the stuff that we don't like about, you know, the corporate event and we brought it indoors. And we brought it to the Lazy J Sporting Club. So when they're waiting their turn, you know, they can be having a glass of wine. They can be in their room. They can be doing whatever they'd like to do. And they're just a couple steps away. So That that was a big win for us when we when we kind of finalized the the schedule for the ladies during that event and we're gonna be super excited to put it on for you guys. speaker-1: And I guess ⁓ at that point, you know, we kinda all of that has been very focused on a a corporate event type setting, but whether you're a bachelor or a bachelorette party or a wedding party coming in, ⁓ you've just opened all the flexibility up for all those groups of people, correct? Yeah. speaker-0: Absolutely. speaker-2: With we're we're implementing a a whole new kind of back office that's totally new to us this year. And with that came a new inquiry form. So we really made a very detailed inquiry form for hunting, for corporate events, for weddings, you know, other small events. And that I think is going to really change how we, you know, assist people with like, no, we actually can do this. You wanna you are Googling and Lazy J Launch comes up, Lazy J Sporting Club excuse me, comes up and you see it and you click on and you think ⁓ man, this would be a really fun place for a bachelor party for family reunion for you know whatever it might be. And we are just going to continue upgrading those things. We're gonna be able to, you know, kind of integrate our menus so people can see the different tiers that Adam has built for our menus, which he has absolutely exploded. Like I've said, we have now tiers of you know, you can have lunch, lunch tiers, supper tiers, chicken tiers, steak tiers, all of these things. ⁓ the options are are endless. So he has done so much good work there. so It we have so many fun things upcoming, especially for 2027. We have amenities that we want to add, ⁓ like tower shoots and long-range shooting, because that is quite a successful, you know, we have the ELRSO at at the lodge every July. And so Troy's doing a lot of work to see how we can start doing our own long-range shooting. Cause I mean, look at the landscape that we have. It's it's it's just built for it, just like it's built for golf. So in the next coming years, there's going to in there's going to be so many changes that are truly going to just expand. how people view the sporting club. speaker-1: And if you if you have a an outside of the box type event like that, ⁓ long range shoot, ⁓ touch on that a little bit, Patrick and Reagan, because you guys work really hard to pull to pull that event off. That's kind of an outside the box event that ⁓ that takes a special place to happen and it proves what you guys can do if if you w if somebody wants to have an event, you can make it happen. speaker-0: Yeah, so ELRSO i is extreme long range shooting. So ⁓ we are perfectly positioned where if you go just east of the lodge we've got a nice hill that overlooks our beautiful creek bed and our beautiful valley. and The event itself is a week long. ⁓ they come in most people come in on that Sunday. They do a lot of setup and zeroing on that Monday to p kick off Tuesday, which is the pro am. And the pro am is open to locals, it is open to first time shooters, it is open to everybody. You've just gotta go through the you know, proper changes get set up. You can get signed up and if you're interested in the future, just reach out to us and we can we can show you the way and show you how to get signed up for that. we've got a gun available at the lodge itself. ⁓ we've we've had one built so we can do ELR in-house, but it is exactly what the title says extreme long range shooting. They start, I believe, the light class, they start at five hundred yards. And The the best way I can describe it is like you they they start out and you can tell that the length is pretty manageable because you hear the crack of the gun and then you hear about a second later a ping. And it's pretty boom, ping, boom, ping. Well as the week progresses and the distances progress, it's like boom. I think for the two mile shot which a young lady hit this year, two miles, that's insane. It is nine seconds of bullet flight time. So that's just like it's hard to like I can tell you it's nine seconds of bullet flight time. It seems like so much longer when you're sitting there, you're like, Okay, like she definitely missed. Yeah. And then it's like ding and you're like, What? Like did somebody like shoot from closer? T but no. And this isn't like a little rinky dink, you know, group we had the number one the current world champion, he was here. ⁓ he and he's also the king o of the New Zealand Mile one miler, he was here, and then the number two shooter in the country was here and the number four shooter in the country was here. And they all got beat by women. It was it was the number I think the number one shooter in the overall he took like third place overall and then two girls. It was ⁓ everybody got humbled a little bit and it was really fun to see. But ⁓ like I said it it starts at five hundred speaker-2: So, speaker-0: they get all the way out to two miles and it's such like a close knit group that though it's a competition, like it is everybody slapping each other on the back, congratulating everyone. you know, with us being new, with me and Troy and Adam all being they they took to us right away and, you know looped us in, made us feel welcome in their little tight knit group. and we're really, really open to, you know, getting locals involved, getting people who wanna wanna try, you know, take a stab at it, you know. Not a lot of people can say they've, you know, hit a target from a mile. And speaker-2: another just exactly another unique thing you know especially especially our area very unique thing and troy is already doing some legwork to how we can get that program like Patrick said anybody anybody can join and actually the the the leader of that group is encouraging us to get locals to come out and do it so Troy and Patrick are already thinking of some like doing some legwork to how we can build that event next year how we can market it differently how we can offer different food plans things like that just to get more local involvement because what a cool event that I'm not even sure ⁓ our area really knows that that goes on. So we're really looking forward next year to pushing that to making it more open, like I said to locals. And again, that's just another way that we get people in our lodge, which is which is our goal. That is the whole goal is to get people to the lodge. speaker-1: Well yeah, and you you start thinking about just opportunities of, you know, horse shows, dog shows, ⁓ any kind of outside the box type event that that you need space for. ⁓ the lazy J sits in a place where ⁓ if it can be done in something portable, you can probably pull it off. ⁓ as long as you have enough enough leeway to get the right things in the right places, you can get it done. speaker-0: ⁓ and like I know we've touched on the bullroom, but you know, it is a pretty expansive space, like so and we're we're getting tents to, you know, increase that outdoor coverage because We we look at what we've done so far this year, that's just the starting point. Like you said, dog shows, gun shows. I wanna get multiple gun shows a year. I want ELS ELR like this year will be the smallest that event was. 'Cause we are going to continue to grow not just that event, but events weekly, monthly at the sporting club. speaker-1: Well guys, I have taken a fair amount of your time this morning. ⁓ give you both an opportunity to give me some some closing thoughts ⁓ as far as, you know, kinda wrapping up ⁓ what the lazy J can offer besides just a world class pheasant hunt. speaker-0: Whether you're planning for a bachelor party or just a family getaway, your next corporate event, reach out to us because what you might view as an obstacle, we view as an opportunity to overcome and be successful. And as we've touched on, there's no limitation to what we'll host. So give us a call. use one of the inquiries that Reagan talked about on our website, and the person you'll be hearing from is me. So speaker-1: Reagan, wrap up. speaker-2: So if you want to come to a place where you will feel like family, you will leave the lodge feeling like you you know and love the Jorgensen family. come join us because that is that is what we hear all the time. Jamie, you talked about wanting to connect and make those, you know, ⁓ those networking opportunities. How do you do that? You do that with good food, good drinks, and a good environment. And that is what you're gonna find at the lodge and I am incredibly in incredibly proud of the team. I wanna take this opportunity to say that for as new as we are. I'm just I'm just I tell them probably every week how impressed and proud I am of them and it is the truth and it's only going to get better. So I I am just so excited for when we join this podcast in another year, in another two years to see where it's grown in that time. Because I know I will. speaker-1: Thank you guys for your time. Thanks everybody for tuning in and I will catch you next time on The Source.