#9 Shot Grouse

[Tom Flanigan]

I was looking through some pictures and came across this one. Birds on the back porch were taken by me with #9 shot and my grandfather’s VH 20 bore. I’ve often wondered just how many grouse that gun has taken for me and my grandfather. He used to say that you could fill the back porch with all the grouse he has taken. I believe him.
I had a string of woodcock hanging also but I had already picked all but one when I took this picture. There were a lot of resident woodcock but when the flight birds came in things got crazy. Its funny, but the flight birds were found mostly in the same section of covert year after year. When the flights started coming in, I knew where they would be.