Day 1...howd it go?

[T-Bone]

My wife and I hunted with our English Springer Spaniel near Ione. We scouted 8/31 and saw ZERO grouse. We hunted 9/1 and only saw one blue grouse. Nonetheless, we had some nice hiking in beautiful country. 

[BuckeyeMan]

New to the forums, so hello all

Day 1, lousy dove, but got 3 grouse in the afternoon.  I'm happy, since I will take grouse over dove any day of the week.

[carpsniperg2]

welcome buckyeman, 3 grouse in hand is worth like 30 in the bush

[fethrduster]

Got out Saturday and saw four grouse, and got one blue.  It was the first hunting day for my new setter and I, and I was very happy with how the day turned out.  Here are a few pics:

[ribka]

Awesome pics fethrduster. That is beautiful country.

What is make and year of your sxs? What loads shooting out of it?

[fethrduster]

Thanks!  It's a late 1800's vintage Belgian 16ga. with 30" damascus barrels.  Weighs 6 lbs. 2 oz.   I shoot low to moderate pressure 1 oz. loads out of it.  It's choked cyl/cyl, so it's no chukar gun, but it is great for skeet and close range work.  I shot it at the NW sxs championships in Mt. Vernon this year and did well with it on sporting clays too.  My main upland gun is a 6 lb. 16ga French boxlock choked m/f, and I shoot 1 or 1 1/8 oz. spreader loads out of that. 

[TangoU]

I took my 7yo son out this morning at dawn to the Snoqualmie Pass area. LOTS of berries. A couple of berry pickers. Hiked around quite a bit, kicked the bushes, but didn't flush a single bird.  Did get wet though!  I told him I was sorry that we didn't get into any grouse.  He said "that's ok Daddy, it was still fun." Mission accomplished.

[bowman]

I shot 2 on Saturday. Both Blues

[ck]

Hunted Saturday and didn't see a grouse. Walked about 12 miles of gated logging road, and drove probably 25 miles, nothing.  Hunted down low up to about 3500ft, tromped around in blackberries and alder, blueberries, creeks, and edges of clearcuts.  Only animal we saw beside chipmunks, jay and robins was a coyote crossing Hwy 20 in Rockport State Park.  For Skagit county guys is it worth it to make a long day trip over the pass for better numbers of grouse, or did I just have a bad day and need to keep trying closer to home?  I saw grouse every single trip last year and was a little surprised we couldn't find one.

[grundy53]

i hunted around conconully from friday to monday and only have one blue to show for it.