02-09-2004, 07:05 PM
Hey MRJ Welcome! Yeah grouse hunting is one of my favorite things to do! And they sure are tasty to eat as well! It's great excercise cause ya gotta do so much hiking in the timber, which is also good. The areas that grouse frequent are always so beautiful!
I don't have a dog -- never have. I've never had a problem locating birds though. You just gotta walk quiet and listen for them and usually you can get close enough that you could take them out with a rock, bb gun or arrow before they take off. When I was deer hunting above Daniel's Canyon I was sitting in a pine stand watching a clearing opening morning to see if any deer would come by. After an hour or so a nice blue grouse approached slowly, feeding on berries and buds of bushes. I just watched it for like a half an hour before it moved on. Beautiful!
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I don't have a dog -- never have. I've never had a problem locating birds though. You just gotta walk quiet and listen for them and usually you can get close enough that you could take them out with a rock, bb gun or arrow before they take off. When I was deer hunting above Daniel's Canyon I was sitting in a pine stand watching a clearing opening morning to see if any deer would come by. After an hour or so a nice blue grouse approached slowly, feeding on berries and buds of bushes. I just watched it for like a half an hour before it moved on. Beautiful!
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