What is a forest grouse?

[Buckmark]

Crap.  Long way to drive for 4 birds.  10gls gas + $10 of shot = $40 or $10 per bird.  Not gonna get the wife to sign off on that.

Better then comng home from elk hunting empty handed, your already there so the grouse are just a bonus.

[DoubleJ]

I figured you were going to shoot them while you were elk hunting.

That was the plan but not sure if I can bag them with a bow setup or not.  How tough would that be?

[DoubleJ]

Also, the only game bird I have ever cooked has been duck.  I use a duck marsala recipe.  Will this work with grouse or is the bird that much different that it should be cooked a different way?

[CP]

Grouse is like a chicken, any good chicken recipe will work for grouse.

[DoubleJ]

OK.  Thanks.  Now, do you clean the grouse in the field as soon as you shoot it or wait til you get home?

[k_rex]

We usually clean our grouse, pheasants, etc. when we get back to camp.

[highmuley]

More popular than chicken in my house. They are a little lean though. Have to be careful not to dry them out.

[DoubleJ]

Field points on my arrows or find something even more blunt?  Will I need to add a 10 yard pin to my sight?

[bobcat]

Also, the only game bird I have ever cooked has been duck.  I use a duck marsala recipe.  Will this work with grouse or is the bird that much different that it should be cooked a different way?

With grouse, you don't have to try to cover up the flavor, like you do with duck.  

[teal101]

Judo Tips or Field tips, I'm gonna use field tips cuz I'm poor and don't wanna buy Judos.

For cooking cook them like chicken and Rice and Chicken and Dumplings.  Amazing

If ya gut one and it smells like pine needles those are better off in the trash.  As the season drags on they switch from berries to needles and begin to taste and smell like a pine tree.

[DoubleJ]

Good tip about the smell.  Thanks

[halflife65]

That's funny you've never shot a grouse.  That's the very first thing me, all my cousins, all my buddies, etc. ever killed as soon as we got a license.  We have an old single shot .410 that goes with whatever new kid needs to go shoot something.  Everyone  in my family started by killing grouse with that thing - usually somewhere between 10 and 12 years old.

Anyway, this might be debatable, but the Judo points and field points usually let your arrow go right through them.  My buddy and I used the big rubber blunts and he shot one, the arrow didn't completely pass through and the damn thing flew off with it.  It only happened once, though, so I don't want to say that every time you shoot a grouse you risk an arrow.  That's probably overstating it.  I use Judo Points, though, so I can stump shoot with the same arrow when I'm walking around in the middle of the day.

When I shoot one I usually run as fast as I can to it to make sure it doesn't sort of recover and hide in the brush (just in case, they usually don't go anywhere.)

[FC]

What is a grouse? My lunch!

[DoubleJ]

Can I just take an arrow and fill the screw in tip with epoxy to make it blunt?

[Gutpile]

I'm having a difficult time with this thread.

Never having shot and eaten a grouse is a little like being a virgin.

You just don't know what you missing.

I'm really really really having a hard time with this right now. LOL.