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Offline Dave Workman

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Re: GROUSE 2023 - Does the later starting date mess you up?
« Reply #15 on: July 17, 2023, 03:47:19 AM »
Saw a lot of grouse in their mating hounds this spring, but have yet to see a hatch. I think I'm too high for them though right now. I don't think this weather so far has been beneficial to the hatch here in NCW. As for the Sept 15 start and the extra 15 days in January.............it doesn't get any more moronic.

Forgive my curiosity, but "NCW?"  Where is that? 
And I concur about the "moronic" nature of adding 15 days in January.  It's a season on paper, IMHO. ;)
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Re: GROUSE 2023 - Does the later starting date mess you up?
« Reply #16 on: July 17, 2023, 07:25:08 AM »
NCW = North Central Washington

Adding 15 days at the end of the season and taking it from the first part of the season is only aimed at one thing, to keep the season length the same and have significantly less harvest.  No one is hunting grouse in January. 

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Re: GROUSE 2023 - Does the later starting date mess you up?
« Reply #17 on: July 17, 2023, 08:10:41 AM »
NCW = North Central Washington

Adding 15 days at the end of the season and taking it from the first part of the season is only aimed at one thing, to keep the season length the same and have significantly less harvest.  No one is hunting grouse in January.

I hear ya! I gave it some thought, right up to the point I opened the front door and got hit in the face with snowflakes. "Dave," I said to myself, "no grouse in its right mind will be out in this weather, and only a moron of your age would think otherwise!"  I put the shotgun back in the safe, put the sixgun back in its hideout, tossed another log into the stove and turned on an old Duke Wayne movie. Or, at least, that's how I prefer to recall the occasion!  :chuckle:
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Re: GROUSE 2023 - Does the later starting date mess you up?
« Reply #18 on: July 17, 2023, 08:20:04 AM »
Saw a couple of broods up Grisdale over the 4th. Fingers crossed for a good year.

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Re: GROUSE 2023 - Does the later starting date mess you up?
« Reply #19 on: July 20, 2023, 10:07:55 AM »
Saw a couple of broods up Grisdale over the 4th. Fingers crossed for a good year.
:yeah:  :tup:
I'm hoping for a better season than last year for sure!  September grouse hunting is a guilty pleasure for me, but somehow I never feel guilty being out in the woods chasing fool hens.  I just hope I have a few more years to keep enjoying it.
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