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As a fair note to all the Grouse hunters that come to Maine each year from away.We have had bad spring weather that has decimated most of the chicks.
That coupled with " climate change" has moved most of our Grouse population North to Quebec. We here in Maine are anticipating the final clean up of the remnant population to begin on October 1 and finish on the forth. Just a warning to Grouse hunters from away that this is the end in Maine. From here on it is all doom and gloom. |
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Cold wet weather decimates the grouse broods more than any other factor. Pneumonia does it to ‘em every time. Those that survive have to face a host of other factors. The grouse population in Vt’s NEK was waaay up in 2007 but has progressively fallen ever since with only a very few good years.
Grouse and woodcock just can’t seem to get an even break. .
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Grouse numbers are cyclic. But anytime in the woods beats watching the news.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers ) "'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy) |
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I agree with what Andy said. Add turkeys to the list also, I have only seen one hen with chicks(3) rest of sightings have been single or double hens. Very wet spring and summer are probably the cause. As far as grouse last two years they were quite plentiful in my area of New York but this year only one drummer and no roadside or woods sightings in the normal places. Plenty of fischers, coyotes and foxes around. Guess I'll settle on the .22 Hornet instead this year.
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In response to this thread and my potential trip to northern Maine (way the hell up there) in early November, I reached out to a friend that hunts up there regularly and has some local connections. He relayed that the locals confirmed that the early hatches were negatively impacted by the weather but the later hatches were good. They're expecting the road hunters to have some difficulty with grouse numbers but are expecting the guys with dogs hunting deeper in the cover to do well. That's why the call it hunting.
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I have setter friends in NH and ME and all are finding grouse on a daily basis. That's a good enough report for me.
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