Defining the "Perfect Grouse Gun"

[BRDHNTR]

16 ga (any grade) Mod/Improved chokes - all day long

[Former User]

I'm a really avid ruffed grouse hunter and have been in search of the perfect grouse gun "for me" since I graduated from college in 1984.

I think the perfect grouse gun for me is a 12 bore that weighs 6-1/4 - 6- 1/2 pounds. 28-30" barrels, straight grip, splinter forend. I like chokes of .003 & .007.

I have not found such a combination in an American double so my ideals have been English like this H & H Royal.


That said, I can't afford such guns so I only get to hunt with them when friends who can afford them visit and allow me to carry them.

I hunt with a 1925 20 bore VHE with 28" barrels. I've never measured the chokes so I'm not sure what they are but when I walk in on my dogs point I have complete confidence that if I do my job, the Parker will do its.

[Harold Pickens]

Jay,
looks to me as if you have the perfect gun. I dont think a light 12 would really be that much better. Like you, I have been searching for the perfect grouse gun since 1983, and have accumulated many good ones. My latest is a GH 16 O frame IC/M that will make its debut this fall--so far I am smitten!
Last year it was a grade2 Ugartechea that was the magic wand ( 11 out of 15 in the 3 days it was carried on grouse). I , too, have a little VH 20 w/ 26' cyl/mod barrels that needs a few days in the grouse woods.ps, the gun is unloaded and not really pointed at my head!

[OH Osthaus]

Harold,

I love that one as a dog picture

[Dean Romig]

Nice guns! And it looks like you had a great day of grouse shooting!

[C.O.B.]

My new perfect Grouse gun is a Charles Boswell damascuss 20ga with straight stock, double triggers and ejectors. She's choked IC/M with 28 inch tubes and is a lith 5lbs 7oz which is 6oz lighter than my H&H 20

I'm going to Duluth, MN for a shoot this weekend so I might just another perfect Grouse gun there

[chris dawe]

My O frame 16 ,with 28 inch tubes comes pretty close,in the first photo I picked up two more birds on the way out...I have to admit though,I do have an Ithaca flues 1 1/2 grade 16 with 30 inch bbls that has bagged an awful lot of birds
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[Researcher]

I've killed far more Ruffed Grouse with a Harrington & Richardson "Sealed Eight" .22 LR revolver, in my two summers of working for the U.S. Forest Service, then any other firearm.

[Jeff Christie]

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

I've killed far more Ruffed Grouse with a Harrington & Richardson "Sealed Eight" .22 LR revolver, in my two summers of working for the U.S. Forest Service, then any other firearm.

Please define summer. I don't know of many (or any) places where grouse are open legal game in the summer. There may be some- enlighten me.

[Harold Pickens]

I was thinking the same thing.