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Originally Posted by edgarspencer
whether I'm right or wrong, and according to most, including my wife, I'm usually wrong, I have used 'grouse' and 'partridge' synonymously.
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That's a good point. I didn't know what a "Ruffed Grouse" was until I was close to my teens, even though I had shot many of them up to that point. It is interesting how localized the term partridge is used to refer to grouse. I still use it to this day. I grew up hunting in northern Wisconsin as did my father and his father, and they were always called "partridge" by the locals. I have since moved less than a couple hundred miles away to Minnesota, and always get strange looks when I use the term partridge to fellow "Ruffed Grouse" hunters who have been hunting them their entire lives. And you should really see there faces when I say I'm going to hunt partridge in the "popple".
