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A grouse flushing from up in a tree is always a tough one for me.
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01-21-2020, 03:37 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Hardest shot? The first bird I killed. A drake ringneck over decoys with my poly-choked 20 gauge 11-48
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01-21-2020, 03:43 PM | #5 | ||||||
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The first time I drove up the drive at Morrison Pines I thought the quail in those long leaf pines would be a cinch compared to grouse and woodcock in the Upper Peninsula. I could not have been more wrong
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01-21-2020, 03:47 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Since the quail are gone in my part of Virginia, I hunt grouse. The hardest shot for me is one flushing from a tree branch, the second hardest is one flushing behind me. On the rare occasion when there are more than one, picking the right bird to shoot is still difficult. Like a lot of hunters, I can hit the hard shot and miss the easy one.
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01-21-2020, 05:30 PM | #7 | ||||||
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woodcock spiraling up through a dense poplar slashing thicket. My brittany holds beautiful points, I always seem to be looking 20 yards ahead, figuring he has a grouse pointed. The first year (2 years ago) I always seemed to shoot to quick, and always seemed to miss. Finally I let the birds get right to the top of the slashing, and then took my shot with much more success. A grouse flying straight at me I have never hit yet, either on the inbound, or outbound
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01-21-2020, 05:35 PM | #8 | ||||||
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The toughest shots for me with any kind of game bird have always been the ones I missed....
Straightaways, crossers, incomers, dropping out of trees, quartering away or in doesn't matter.... heck, I even missed a big longbeard at 30 yards, full choke, with the bead right at the top of his neck. Birds I've killed when all the odds were stacked against me, at the time seemed so easy when it happened but later when I thought about it I wonder how I ever pulled it off.... .
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01-21-2020, 06:10 PM | #9 | ||||||
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A duck seen at a great distance and watched as it approaches, all the time in the world,missed. A duck that surprises me is in trouble. A grouse or woodcock I see before it flushes gets a pass. A grouse roaring down the mountain side side slipping through the trees is a waste of ammo for 50 years but I finnally hit one this year 10 minutes after telling my sons about my frustration with them. It's why we love this game so much. If you got them all what would be the sense of that.
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01-21-2020, 06:13 PM | #10 | ||||||
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1st. Blue quail running in front of you and the dogs, flushing while your on the run at 40 yards.
2nd. Green winged teal flying from behind you, unseen, then straight away at mach 10. |
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