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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #60 on: July 13, 2009, 05:48:06 AM »
im using a fixed full choke with No. 6 maybe 7.5

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #61 on: July 13, 2009, 07:10:45 AM »
I don’t have a dedicated grouse gun.  I found that my 12g Browning A5 mag is too tight for them and doesn’t leave much grouse for eating.   It’s a full choke, fuller than most.

I have an A5 light that works a bit better, full choke, still tighter than I’d like.  I have a short barreled open cylinder 12g that works great close up, but its range is limited.  I’m sure that need to buy a new gun, I’m thinking modified.  Maybe 20g.

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #62 on: July 13, 2009, 06:34:07 PM »
i say screw f&h news >:( i bought a 2 year subscription then two months into it they stopped coming no notice nothing. pissed me off, went online to contact and found out they shut down you can bet i didnt get my money back or my damn knife lol i really wanted that knife dang
hey anybody got a towel, i just hit a waterbuffalo

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #63 on: July 13, 2009, 06:45:10 PM »
I have never hunted grouse over a dog. Hunted pheasants and chukar over a dog.
I guess that I've been spoiled shooting dumb blue grouse out on open hillsides off abandoned logging grades and skid roads.

I know there is a certain element that really sneers at hunters who bonk 'em in the head with a .22 or ground-sluices them, but for a guaranteed dinner, sometimes that's what you gotta do.



I've hunted them with dogs and it's great fun. I've also shot them off the logging roads which is also great fun. In all reality grouse live in such thick cover where I shoot them that flying shots are not very practical. To me grouse are a target of opportunity when I'm scouting or hunting something else. I shoot them where I see them. Typically with a 410 or 20 gauge. Frankly I have no use for someone that says ground sleusing a grouse is unethical.

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #64 on: July 13, 2009, 06:50:38 PM »
Im not a recovering grouse ground sluicer,Im a sluicing junkie,22mag in da head,clean meat so good to eat..Cant wait to start again..

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #65 on: July 13, 2009, 06:52:19 PM »
,Im a sluicing junkie,22mag in da head,clean meat so good to eat..Cant wait to start again..

Me too!!!! Didn't hunt them at all last year. This year I plan on eating a lot of grouse fajitas.

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #66 on: July 13, 2009, 06:54:09 PM »
,Im a sluicing junkie,22mag in da head,clean meat so good to eat..Cant wait to start again..

Me too!!!! Didn't hunt them at all last year. This year I plan on eating a lot of grouse fajitas.
that sounds good Im gonna make some this year..

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Re: Yet Another Grouse Thread! YIPPEEEE!!!!!
« Reply #67 on: August 06, 2009, 11:28:19 AM »
All you grouse gunnies...be sure and take sharp, clear images of you with your birds and get them over to NORTHWEST SPORTSMAN magazine.

who*
where
when
type of gun/gauge (or caliber)
who snapped the photo??

GET AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN; that is, fill the frame with the photo of hunter and bird, not some sweeping wide angle scenic panorama with a tiny person in the middle of it all clutching a teensy weensy bird. 


*name and town
name and town
name and town!
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