Vermont 2010
 

Dean,Jamie,Danny and myself spent a great weekend up in Vermont chasing Pa'tridge. Satuday dawned cool and sunny...a perfect day! Grouse numbers are down this year but we manged to scratch a few birds down. Saturday was one grouse and one woodcock. Sunday dawned cloudy with a threat of rain. A great day as we got into a flight of woodcock on a scrub apple hillside and Danny connected for his first bird in Vermont. Grand total four woodcock and a grouse. Great friends,great weather and good food priceless!Here are a few picture's.

A few more...This first one is for Chuck Bishop...Scrapple in the pan ...very tasty Chuck thanks!

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It was a special treat to watch Danny knock down his first bird there in Vermont. Those rascally little "russet fellers" just seemed to be everywhere on that high hillside cover and they weren't very accomodating in presenting easy shots so Congratulations to you Danny!

Dave kicked up that old horseshoe early in our Saturday morning hunt (a relic from the days when the whole area was tilled fields, hayfields and pastureland and a tractor was an oddity in a state where horses did the heavy pulling. He carried that horse shoe believing it would bring him luck and as luck would have it - he was the only one to kill a pa'tridge that morning.

I've read the words of several "experts" who have written that a grouse will not eat a yellow apple but here's proof that they will indeed eat yellow apples and make quite a meal of them at that.

what beautiful country side.. by your efforts with the camera i think a bunch of us fellas was on that hunt with yall..all i can think to say is WOW and thanks....charlie

Good for YOU Danny!!! :bowdown: nice shooting Dave, Dean and nice pics! keep us posted about your next trip :corn: scott

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Getting an invite with Dean and Dave to VT and the hunting camp is like getting a "White House Invitation" to the National Cotillion...

It doesn't happen..

But, at least we get to see pictures..??

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John

I don't know about that John, you are almost correct. I know both Dean and Dave and I met a person once that had been invited to the White House.:rotf:

Yep - I was honored to meet Ronald Regan once as well.. Shook his hand and we had a short - but - wonderful conversation. He was absolutely wonderful.. President Regan was warm, inviting and went on to be President.

The White House would have been easier to access than wrestling a simple invitation to VT. :) In truth, Eric and Rich in MI have an open invite to us, though..??

JD

Hmmmm.... I haven't had any presidential aspirations but that does give me some ideas....

It would be a fun few days.... I'm gonna give some thought as to where to dispose of your bodies and I'll let you know when I've decided (can't let you back into contemporary "civilization" knowing the coordinates of Grouse Camp ya know). :cool: