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 Vinny & I had a nice day chasing Sage Grouse, it's a 3 day season here in Wyoming with a 2 bird limit. The big male bird weighed about 5 pounds! Now we spend the next month or so going after huns & sharptails! | ||
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. Nice photo. Question - why such a short season ? And 2 bird bag ? Are there so few or what ? . "Up the ladders and down the snakes!" | |||
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Nice Dog ! Pete | |||
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Charlie64, yes they are becoming significantly less in number & therefore they seem to lower the quota (bag limit, season length,..) yearly. Most years I don't even hunt them, but they are great for a young pointing dog. My dog, Vinny, is a 2 yr old GSP, he's small in stature (38-40#) but has been doing a great job so far! We hunted at around 9000-10000 ft elevation & walked about 5-6 miles for those 2 birds! Better than a stairclimber or elliptical? Jim | |||
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Love it! Can’t wait for opener Nov.5 for pheasants here in Ohio. Went to SE Colorado and North central Kansas last year. The former was a bust the latter a success. Plan on Kansas again this year. Got a prairie chicken last year. What is it exactly? Sage grouse? Prairie Grouse? Never seed one in my life till I brought it down. | |||
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Nice looking dog and NICE gun. Sidelock underlever....mind sharing the make? Haven't hunted sage grouse in Montana in years, but usually see a nice number of them when chasing antelope. | |||
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mt Al, The shotgun is an 1890 Lang 20g underlever with 30" Damascus barrels. I shoot RST low recoil shells in it (7 1/2 shot), luckily I bought a few boxes of them a couple years ago as they are hard to get at this time. I use this shotgun almost exclusively when chasing huns & grouse. It's really light to carry & those 30" barrels swing wonderfully! I often daydream about the craftsman who built it, previous owners,... & hope they are proud because at 130 years old it still performs quite well. Thanks for asking, Jim | |||
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Great pic!  Brought back some memories for me. Eons ago, while growing up in Utah, we used to hunt sage hens (grouse) in a vast sage brush flat just east of the original Strawberry Reservoir and near the current Soldier Creek Dam. Same length of season and limit. Shot a couple of them. My dad had one mounted for the den. Terrible eating, however!  | |||
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Congratulations, now the worse part is you have to eat them  Ruff or blue grouse, yes, great. Sage hens, the worse meat I have ever eaten | |||
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Hunting Sage Grouse isn’t so much about what you bag as the whole high desert hunt experience. My son and I were drawn to hunt them in California a few times and always enjoyed our hunts. They’re better eating than many people believe, but we always cleaned and chilled them as soon as they were shot, before moving along to look for more birds. Alas, the area we hunted burned in a huge fire and the season has been closed ever since. Jungle boy, Thanks for your post. It brings back fond memories. | |||
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Better eating than most think or are aware. Slice breast meat of ANY bird into fingers, flour, salt and pepper, fry in hot oil like cajuns cook fish. | |||
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Jungleboy, Great pic, dog and shotgun!!! I drew a license for 2 birds for the season over the border in Utah and filled both tags a couple weeks ago. I certainly hear ya about putting on the miles to find them. It almost didn't happen for us but, late in the afternoon, we got into a little bunch and a buddy and I tagged out with 4 birds total. It had been decades since I hunted them last. Zeke | |||
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Or wrap in bacon and grill them. TomP Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right. Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906) | |||
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Vinny & I decided to take a small hike around the ranch (primarily to wear off some of the Thanksgiving calories I accumulated!) & we got a nice point followed by a lucky shot, all resulting in an old rooster!  | |||
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Very nice ! Pete | |||
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Jason, that is entirely because of how you take care of your sage grouse. When we’ve shot them, we immediately stop, gut the bird, wash it out with cold water, then place it in vest’s game pouch which had a cold pack inside to start cooling the birds down. Once home, we brine the birds overnight before grilling them over charcoal. They’re good enough that some people have 2nds and there is rarely anything left over. | |||
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Sorry DLS, I cannot agree. I cleaned them and took care of them shortly after shooting them. I did not clean them in the field but shot them near my house, maybe 15 minutes away. The texture of that meat and smell is not good! A lot of the locals around here think they are amazing. Maybe it is just meat. Neck, a lot of people can’t stand antelope and the buck I shot was not bad at all I like a lot of different game but ducks and sage hens are out. I have tried so many recipes and meat preparations that I have given up. I see sage hens around here a lot and have zero desire to hunt them | |||
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Late to this post but that Lang is rare as rocking horse s#*t. Beautiful gun. I love Damascus barrels. Glad to see you enjoying and using it. | |||
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Since a few people have commented, here's a better pic of the old 20g Lang underlever with my other GSP (Cooper) & a Sharptail Grouse.  | |||
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I've heard that so many times and just chuckle. If you stick to mallards you might think differently. I recall one time in MT we had a BBQ and I grilled a bunch of mallard breasts to medium with just salt and pepper then sliced them into medallions. People were gobbling them up at the same time they were saying "I hate duck....I'd never eat duck" hahaaaaaaaa. My point: eat the wrong duck or cook it past medium and it's disgusting and should be reserved for those dying of starvation.  _________________________ Liberalism is a mental disorder. | |||
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I love the last two pics of your as well and the sage grouse pic! Well done sir. Zeke | |||
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Ha ha…. I’ve shot more mallards than any other types. Guess you’re a better cook than me. | |||
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Prized birds, gun and dog! Sage hens are true trophy birds in todays world, congrats! Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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