Frosty Alaska grouse hunt

[Richard Flanders]

Trigg and I trudged around for 3 days, walking up to 10.5 miles on our best day, and only got one bird, a spruce grouse. Did some good hunting though. I only took pictures of yesterdays hunt, which was the most interesting and in a logging area north of Fairbanks. I used my Repro 28 for this day; Trigg had a 20ga Guerini, or however you spell it. It was 10deg and snowing all day; the previous two days it was around 15-17deg. Yesterday's area was new to both of us and was recommended to us by Glen Holt, a forester and fellow grouse chaser and a real gentleman. We kicked up, I think, three ruffies in the three days, with no good shots presented - well, maybe one good shot had Trigg remembered to take his safety off before he pulled, or tried to pull the trigger....I'm certain nobody here has ever done that... It was a fun time though as we had not hunted together for several years. His dogs worked well, especially the black/white one, who is a real trooper and was still hunting pretty hard after 25miles two days ago. The other one was just along for the walk at that point, but perked up temporarily when we flushed a grouse not far from the car at the end of the day.

[Dean Romig]

That's a lot of walking for three ruffie flushes.

Looks cold! Been there, done that! My most memorable are when we see the other woods critters besides the birds - don't get me wrong - the birds are the primary reason to be there but carrying a Parker in the woods gives us a good excuse for a nature walk too.

Late October grouse hunts often produce surprises in Vt.


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[Richard Flanders]

Oh my! That's the perfect 'freezer moose' Dean! It was indeed cold every day. We were under-dressed the first day and suffered for it; I doubt I could have shouldered my gun had something flushed. It was cold with a cutting breeze on an exposed ridge logging road. I can tell you that at 71yrs old, Trigg is a real trooper and never complained once. He was happy as hell to just be out hunting and walking with his dogs. Take a look at the link below and scroll through this years 60-inch club in our local newspaper.

http://www.newsminer.com/features/ou...3c81368.html#1

[charlie cleveland]

really good pictures of the hunting areas...i surel do know what being so cold as to not being able to shouler a gun or even be able to push the safety on...better luck next time.....charlie

[Mills]

Beautiful pictures! Looks cold!

[edgarspencer]

Originally Posted by Mills Morrison

Beautiful pictures! Looks cold!

Ya think? My toes were aching just looking at the pictures.

[C.O.B.]

No frost here deer season is 8 days away and it was almost 70 today.
Nice moose pics, someday maybe I'll get back to Alaska for a whopper but I have no idea of where I'd put it. Lots of tasty meat though.

[Brian]

The Parker you're carrying in these pictures has the barrels mounted wrong.

[C.O.B.]

I think your referring to Richard's friend Trigg who was using an O/U as was mentioned.