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Posted: 10/7/2015 3:15:05 PM EDT

Posted: 10/8/2015 9:17:49 PM EDT

[#1]

That is a day well lived.

Posted: 10/11/2015 6:27:09 PM EDT

[#2]

It took 30 years of hunting but I just got my 1st double on grouse. They flushed at the exact time about 10 feet apart. I was pretty happy.
Please forgive the ipotato quality pics.....

Posted: 10/13/2015 4:10:17 PM EDT

[#3]

Here is one I killed on a recent back country elk hunt. I love a good grouse cooked in bacon grease and eaten on a tortilla.

Posted: 10/19/2015 4:23:19 PM EDT

[#4]

Not grouse, but a woodcock...that's the next best thing.

Pheasants are always welcome too...

Posted: 10/22/2015 12:12:15 AM EDT

[#5]

Posted: 10/23/2015 2:12:27 PM EDT

[#6]

I just got back from our annual "bird camp" trip to the NEK of Vermont. it was a great year for birds, lots of grouse and more woodcock than we've ever seen, killed more woodcock than grouse this year, that was a first! we dont use dogs, so that always means we flush about 4-5 for every one we kill. The grouse were not holding well AT ALL this year, they were flushing 25-30 ahead in most cases, so we focused more on the Alder patches where we could get late flushing grouse and as usual, we had to almost step on the woodcock to flush them. Good times with good friends, and I even managed to take a few pictures!

looking out over a series of large beaver ponds

"camp"

the first two kills of the trip, my dad got the grouse and I got the doodle

South America Pond

South America Pond Rd

shot two for two on the last evening (it was snowing, so they really held great)

a shot out the front door on the day we left, got an inch just a little higher up in the mtn's

Posted: 10/23/2015 2:44:18 PM EDT

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I just got back from our annual "bird camp" trip to the NEK of Vermont. it was a great year for birds, lots of grouse and more woodcock than we've ever seen, killed more woodcock than grouse this year, that was a first! we dont use dogs, so that always means we flush about 4-5 for every one we kill. The grouse were not holding well AT ALL this year, they were flushing 25-30 ahead in most cases, so we focused more on the Alder patches where we could get late flushing grouse and as usual, we had to almost step on the woodcock to flush them. Good times with good friends, and I even managed to take a few pictures!

looking out over a series of large beaver ponds
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"camp"
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the first two kills of the trip, my dad got the grouse and I got the doodle
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South America Pond
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South America Pond Rd
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shot two for two on the last evening (it was snowing, so they really held great)
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a shot out the front door on the day we left, got an inch just a little higher up in the mtn's
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Great Pics!

Posted: 10/28/2015 4:03:49 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/28/2015 9:13:31 PM EDT

[#9]

Favorite thread

Posted: 11/2/2015 4:59:49 PM EDT

[#10]

I am probably the worst at not taking pictures on hunts but I am trying to get better.
Anyway here are a couple pics from Wisconsin there will probably never be another grouse season in Indiana.

Also not grouse photos but yesterday quail opened in Indiana but I had to much other stuff to do so we went today.
I also found a woodcock to shoot while walking back to the truck through the woods to avoid a rough walk back along an unpicked corn field. The temperature was 50 this morning and hit 70 here today the dogs were shot by 11. We only found one covey and a couple singles. Indiana is doing a horrible job of upland management and finding even more than one covey is a real treat. It doesn't matter though I can spend the whole day just watching the dogs work.

If I would have had some steel shot I might have bagged a woodie or two along the creek. We jumped 6 off the water after taking a detour on that walk through the woods to see if any more timber doodles were around.

Posted: 11/2/2015 11:09:21 PM EDT

[#11]

Used to do a lot of grouse (and turkey) hunting with my dad and his dogs around the western end of Greenbrier County, WV.

35 years ago we'd have days where we jumped 35 grouse in a round along those old strip mines and farms/orchards. The last few years there just weren't hardly any around. They cycled down and never cycled back up again. I remember dad telling me they'd (him and the dogs) jump 3 or 4 some days. Turkeys dropped off, too. I remember seeing flocks of 40 to 50 in the summer and early fall. Crossing the road, sometimes walking down a road. The last few years if we saw 5 or 6 is was a good day.

Don't know if it was because people stopped trapping and the fox/bobcat/etc. numbers built up enough to really cut into the young bird population. Don't know if it was Westvaco's massive clear cutting of that area. Don't know if it was coyotes steadily increasing in numbers over the last few years.

The glory days were the mid 70's. I'd come home from school, change clothes, grab my Ithaca M37 and head up to the strip mines that ran around the mountains around the holler my grandma lived in and some days we'd jump 5 or 6 (or a few more) in the hour before dark. On a good walk I'd get 1, on a really good walk I'd get a couple.

Good memories. Really good ones. The dogs are gone now. Dad passed away two years ago. My only hard hunting brother passed away 5 years ago. I don't have anyone left to talk to about those great days. My other brother couldn't care less about hunting.

Posted: 11/3/2015 7:31:56 AM EDT

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Used to do a lot of grouse (and turkey) hunting with my dad and his dogs around the western end of Greenbrier County, WV.

35 years ago we'd have days where we jumped 35 grouse in a round along those old strip mines and farms/orchards. The last few years there just weren't hardly any around. They cycled down and never cycled back up again. I remember dad telling me they'd (him and the dogs) jump 3 or 4 some days. Turkeys dropped off, too. I remember seeing flocks of 40 to 50 in the summer and early fall. Crossing the road, sometimes walking down a road. The last few years if we saw 5 or 6 is was a good day.

Don't know if it was because people stopped trapping and the fox/bobcat/etc. numbers built up enough to really cut into the young bird population. Don't know if it was Westvaco's massive clear cutting of that area. Don't know if it was coyotes steadily increasing in numbers over the last few years.

The glory days were the mid 70's. I'd come home from school, change clothes, grab my Ithaca M37 and head up to the strip mines that ran around the mountains around the holler my grandma lived in and some days we'd jump 5 or 6 (or a few more) in the hour before dark. On a good walk I'd get 1, on a really good walk I'd get a couple.

Good memories. Really good ones. The dogs are gone now. Dad passed away two years ago. My only hard hunting brother passed away 5 years ago. I don't have anyone left to talk to about those great days. My other brother couldn't care less about hunting.

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Combination of forest fires not being allowed to burn, less commercial logging, and grouse being at the bottom of their population cycle.

Posted: 11/3/2015 9:05:20 AM EDT

[#13]

great pictures!! -- heading up to bird hunting camp in northern NH with my dog and friends next week. getting excited! we limited out on pheasant this year, second season hunting with my Brittany.

Posted: 11/3/2015 10:47:14 AM EDT

[#14]

Addi in Saskatchewan a couple of weeks ago

Posted: 11/3/2015 4:33:34 PM EDT

[#15]

I was in Lake City, Co for ten days. Couldn't find any locally and everyone I talked to had no idea where to find them. Wine Fest was fun though

Posted: 11/3/2015 9:05:24 PM EDT

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Addi in Saskatchewan a couple of weeks ago

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Sharpies are cool.