You guys have a lot more experience with grouse than me, but what I have seen and experience they are pretty smart-instinctive and innovative birds when evading predators. They are also dang good about keeping cover on their 6's as they make a break, especially out of a tree. Tree flushes are definitely tough sometimes if you can even get them to come out. We hunted em in an area that had a lot of old big and tall cedar trees. More than once on a flush I saw bird(s) fly straight into them like a missile. Even getting them out of that trees much less a shot was pretty low percentage. I did mark one flying into a tree and then worked my way around and could actually see it. Did everything I could to try and flush him to get a shot and when he finally made a break flew to another one 30 yards away.
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