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Originally Posted by Bruce Day
We will be having education sessions for you fellows mired in outdated thinking.
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I think I'll be absent that day. I'm pretty comfortable in my own skin.
I identify as a very open-minded member of the "old school" who really doesn't care what sex the grouse he shoots are but is happiest to kill a cock bird in full adult plumage. And I have yet to shoot a cock with strap-on ruffs... or vice-versa
Beautiful birds Frank. The great majority of grouse here in New England are predominantly gray in color while the birds of western New York and the Appalachian areas are predominantly brown or 'red-phase.' It is said that the New England grouse are of the 'togata' subspecies and that accounts for the gray coloring.
I think the brown birds like yours are prettier than ours but my brother-in-law, Jamie has one that Scott mounted for him that is actually a dark mahogany color. Jamie shot it in the NEK of Vermont over my Gracie.
No, it is not the protected Spruce Grouse.
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