Pheasants Forever holds silent auction Thursday at Pine Bluffs Distilling

With its annual banquet canceled because of the coronavirus, Pheasants Forever wants to give people a chance to win the quality firearms it puts up for silent auction every year as a fundraiser.

The organization will hold a silent auction Thursday night at Pine Bluffs Distilling, where members of the public will be able to put in bids on some of the rifles, shotguns, handguns and even BB guns the group had planned to auction during its banquet in April.

“We had all the guns for the banquet, so it’s like ‘Why don’t we try to sell what we can this year,’” said Chad Brown, Pine Bluffs chapter pre...