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If you like grouse

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03 March 2023, 20:24

Bill/Oregon

If you like grouse

... this is a lovely little film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhcAMc6M9gI

04 March 2023, 03:48

Jungleboy

That was an awesome video! Love to see his passion for the outdoors,

dogs, nature & wing shooting. He would fit in nicely with my buddies

here in Wyoming!

04 March 2023, 19:22

bwanamrm

Project Upland produces some great videos... this is certainly one!

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Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch...
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And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
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Life grows grim without senseless indulgence.

04 March 2023, 20:42

mbogobutch

Thanks for posting Bill, that's a great film with wonderful dog work. I would love to hunt a day or two with that gentleman, and his dog.
Dinner looked pretty damm good also.

05 March 2023, 04:58

Charlie64

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Great vid.... thanks for posting the link. Shot grouse off skies in Sweden a few years ago .... great fun !!

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06 March 2023, 03:36

Use Enough Gun

Outstanding!

Thanks so much for posting!

11 March 2023, 16:24

p dog shooter

Hunting upland birds with dogs is great fun.

Spent thousands of hours doing it.

26 March 2023, 05:58

Brian Canada

Thanks for posting. Brian

02 April 2023, 01:29

raamw

I have hunted all different types of wild birds but the one that I have not and will not give to somebody is Grouse, they to me is the finest wild fowl to eat and challenging to hunt. I had a well experienced Lab who would tip me off once he got wind of them and though he was obedient if the grouse was a running I would have to keep up with him. On the occasion he would get one to hold he would look like a pointer and if I missed he would give me a look {"like don't do it again)

05 April 2023, 17:18

p dog shooter

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I have hunted all different types of wild birds but the one that I have not and will not give to somebody is Grouse, they to me is the finest wild fowl to eat and challenging to hunt

A lot of follow shooters over the years would give me heck for shooting sitting grouse.

I would tell them.

Grouse taste so good a sitting one is a gift from God.

30 April 2023, 21:30

Skyline

Yes hunting ruffies is a lot of fun as are their cousins sharptails in the more open country.

p dog...unequivocally can say that where I grew up most hunters just shot grouse sitting at the side of the logging roads and did not flush them and shoot them on the wing. Very few used dogs, and if they did it was just to run and fetch a grouse.

I think I was probably in my late teens before I met a guy with good bird dogs that hunted ruffies with them. He was also the guy that introduced me to pheasants. Later I hunted with relatives in the "prairies" that used dogs for sharptails and huns. A day in the field behind good bird dogs is hard to beat.

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