Native prairie grouse on the northern plains. Sharptails and prairie chickens. These were the birds before the Chinese ringneck pheasants, Hungarian partridge and Asian chukkar. Hunters would come out from the east on the trains, get picked up at the little country stations by farmers and ranchers on their buckboard wagons. They would stay with the farm family and be driven over the prairies, shooting from the wagons or dismounting when birds were found.
Grouse cannot be pen raised and do not tolerant civilization well, except they will fly into alfalfa fields.
Prairie grouse are engraved on the bottom of the G grade Parkers.
Some folks don't like the plains, too much wind, sky and horizon. I'll take it. There are a couple of us below. I'm 64, Charlie is 70. I think we'll keep doing this for a while.
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