|
01-10-2020, 06:46 PM | #3 | ||||||
|
Similar smiles on those two! I can't imagine why...
__________________
“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.” ― Jim Harrison "'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy) |
||||||
01-10-2020, 08:05 PM | #4 | ||||||
|
Very cool, we are thinking about taking my sons dogs out tomorrow for some quail in central Florida. Oscar is a 1 1/2 year old, and Eva is a 4 moth old. Both are GSP’s, Oscar is a bit of a veteran getting to hunt grouse and woodcock last fall in northern Michigan.
__________________
"There are two kinds of hunting: ordinary hunting, and ruffed grouse hunting"-Aldo Leopold |
||||||
Grouse |
01-10-2020, 08:30 PM | #5 | ||||||
|
Grouse
I want to hunt grouse either in Michigan or Maine this fall.
|
||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to David Penland For Your Post: |
01-10-2020, 08:34 PM | #6 | ||||||
|
|
||||||
01-11-2020, 05:50 AM | #7 | |||||||
|
Quote:
After my 40 year layoff from hunting, I will tell you that hunting ruffed grouse is the ultimate bird hunting challenge in my opinion. They are sneaky little critters, they run when they should fly, or they fly off behind the cover of a large pine tree, your dog can do everything right and the birds make it look like the dog has done everything wrong or the hunter walking up on the dog on point has done something wrong I kept trying to wait for the perfect point and flush with grouse when I first started hunting, I bet out of every 10 points I get with grouse only one bird will hold, and thats usually early in the season. I have seen my dog get birdy, go into a thicket, the grouse will fly up in the tree and look down and watch him and I think the birds are laughing. |
|||||||
The Following User Says Thank You to Ed Norman For Your Post: |
01-10-2020, 08:40 PM | #8 | ||||||
|
I was a pheasant hunter 15 years ago. Once I started hunting grouse and woodcock, I never looked back. Woodcock are great for the dogs, and the ruffed grouse is the greatest challenge I have ever encountered with a dog and a shotgun.
__________________
"There are two kinds of hunting: ordinary hunting, and ruffed grouse hunting"-Aldo Leopold |
||||||
01-10-2020, 08:41 PM | #9 | ||||||
|
Heff - It's none of my damned business, but, are you sure that your pup is accustomed to gunshots? I've seen more than a few dogs who became gunshy because they were not properly introduced to the gun.
__________________
"Striving to become the man my dog thinks I am" |
||||||
01-10-2020, 08:52 PM | #10 | ||||||
|
Big D, the dogs are my sons. Oscar is unbelievable for his age. We killed 3 grouse and over a dozen woodcock over him last year in Norther Michigan as a 14 month old. He exceeded all my expectations. The pup, Eva had her first trip out a few days ago for quail in central Florida (that’s where my son lives, and my wife and I are currently visiting) she has been acquainted to gunfire, and we are just getting her out to let her chase big brother around and see what putting the hunting collar on is all about.
__________________
"There are two kinds of hunting: ordinary hunting, and ruffed grouse hunting"-Aldo Leopold |
||||||
|
|