Blues or Ruffed? What's your pleasure?

[spikehunter]

Gruose any type gotta go with gruose courdon bleu. but then again pheasant cordon bleu is tasty also. heck it's all good

[Pathfinder101]

Love 'em both, but we have more ruffs here (either that or they are easier to find), so blues are like a "special treat".

[PolarBear]

Either or but I prefer blues.  I like to cut the breast into chunks, marinade in Yoshida's and shishkabob with sweet onions, bell peppers and pineapple.  Mmm m mm.

[hoytem]

blues are the ultimate but consistently get more ruffed.

[Slider]

One of my friends father use to own the Entiat Tavern. We use to stop in after Deer Hunting with some Blues and he would toss them in the Broaster for us!!! Brews and Broasted Blues!!!  

[Pathfinder101]

My son spotted this one on our Montana scouting trip.

[dawei]

Here in the Evergreen State we are blessed with ruffed (forest) grouse and blue grouse (hooters), and some guys like to hunt the lowlands while others go after their birds waaaaaay up in that high country.

I lean toward blue grouse in the high lonesome and look for them back in the timber where most people never seem to go for the single reason that some of these birds have never seen a human, or are rather complacent because no human ever did anything but freak when the bird blew cover in a flurry.

I have found loads of grouse in high places, like the top of Teanaway Ridge or up around Walupt Lake, Pinto Rock, Takhlakh Lake, along Sawtooth Ridge between Lake Chelan and the Methow River valley, up around Black Pine Lake out of Winthrop; all kinds of places.

But others really dig those ruffed grouse and I've killed a fair number of them with my Beretta S/S double in 12-gauge and an old H&R 16-gauge single shot back when I was a kid.

So....which do you prefer and why?

Doesn't Washington also offer Spruce Grouse hunting?

[TeacherMan]

I like big blue's they actually make a meal 

[ing]

Here in the Evergreen State we are blessed with ruffed (forest) grouse and blue grouse (hooters), and some guys like to hunt the lowlands while others go after their birds waaaaaay up in that high country.

I lean toward blue grouse in the high lonesome and look for them back in the timber where most people never seem to go for the single reason that some of these birds have never seen a human, or are rather complacent because no human ever did anything but freak when the bird blew cover in a flurry.

I have found loads of grouse in high places, like the top of Teanaway Ridge or up around Walupt Lake, Pinto Rock, Takhlakh Lake, along Sawtooth Ridge between Lake Chelan and the Methow River valley, up around Black Pine Lake out of Winthrop; all kinds of places.

But others really dig those ruffed grouse and I've killed a fair number of them with my Beretta S/S double in 12-gauge and an old H&R 16-gauge single shot back when I was a kid.

So....which do you prefer and why?

Doesn't Washington also offer Spruce Grouse hunting?

Yeah theres a few spruce grouse running around.  I came across a couple and killed one. thats the one and only time I've ever seen them.

[MtnMuley]

There's just something about those big high country blues on a crisp September morning that does it for me!

[ICEMAN]

There's just something about those big high country blues on a crisp September morning that does it for me!

Amen!

[rasbo]

doesn't matter,It is nice getting a blue,mostly ruffed where I'm hunting

[mossback91]

saw 20+ blues friday  been seeing alot everywhere actually........should be a real good grouse year.....I think most gamebirds around here got two good hatches out.......been seeing alot of quail, chukars, and huns also but no pheasants

[HoofsandWings]

I am a blues fan and so is my dog. We were hiking towards PCT and my dog flushed 2 huge blues.
I will be going back there come 09/01/2009.

[Dave Workman]

HoofsandWings:
Good luck along the PCT Tuesday.

To everyone else...shoot and scoot.
Come this Labor Day weekend, be sure and take care with your shots because there will be a lot of hikers and other recreationists out in the woods, and most of them will NOT be wearing any kind of fluorescent orange.