Today, 10/17/2020, it started snowing in the wee hours of the morning and now with daylight coming I see we have some accumulation and it’s still coming down. Should be interesting hunting today... but it’s a wet snow falling on already wet covers from a day of heavy rains yesterday.
Grace and I hunted for almost an hour yesterday morning and put up 5 grouse and 2 woodcock. I blew it on a big cock grouse that lifted off the ground almost as if he didn’t want to fly. He wheeled left at ablot 20 yards and was a beautiful brown phase and I put the bead on his beak but couldn’t pull the trigger... not that I didn’t want to- I think I didn’t push the safety far enough....
But he flitted back down under a cluster of spruces only about 25 yards from where he flushed.
“This is going to be easy.” I thought to myself, so I sent Grace in to locate him and he burst out the far side about 30 yards from me in a hard right to left. I fired just as he disappeared behind a spruce bough and I could see my shot pattern chop through the greenery. “Dead bird!” I hollered to Grace. After 5 minutes of scouring the area she declared me a liar.
So... we’ll see what today brings... it’s lighter out now at 7:12 and it’s still snowing.
We have about 30 turkeys in the field about 400 yards in front of camp. They roosted in the adjacent pines and just now flew down.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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