What is a forest grouse?

[DoubleJ]

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.

Every virgin starts somewhere.  If it's anything like my last virgin experience, I'll need to poke the grouse with an arrow at least 3 times before I find the right spot and I'll end slobbering all over it before going to sleep.

[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.

Every virgin starts somewhere.  If it's anything like my last virgin experience, I'll need to poke the grouse with an arrow at least 3 times before I find the right spot and I'll end slobbering all over it before going to sleep.

 

FUNNIER THAN HELL!!!!!!!!

[shedcrazy]

  HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

[thinkingman]

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.

So if it smells like pine needles...?

[JackOfAllTrades]

10gls gas + $10 of shot = $40 or $10 per bird.  ?

Grouse are great eating. Search here for some recipes.   I figure your spot is 75 miles from Shelton. I'd drive more than half that just to go Grouse hunting.

It is sporting to shoot them from the limb or ground if you're carrying a bow. I woulnd't use a broadhead.. but just sayin.

You could also shoot them with 22rimfire, (the Ruger MKII Or Browning Buckmark you carry while bow hunting Elk).

-Steve

[Curly]

I used to drive 6 hours one way to get to a good grouse hunting spot.  And sometimes we would end up driving all day long on logging roads looking for grouse.  (Of course that was back when gas was 0.79/gal).

[halflife65]

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

No, the weight of the arrow will be all screwed up.  You need to use something that is the same weight as your broadheads (85, 100, or 125gr probably - just match what you're using.)

[KimberRich]

Your from Shelton and don't know what a Grouse is??  I'm confused..  I thought that would have been a class in like 2nd grade in a town of Loggers!   

[MikeWalking]

someone tried to tell me it was a long complaint around the campfire....

[Rob]

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.

never.  NEVER and I mean NEVER EVER try to justify hunting by factoring in the cost per animal or per pound of meat. 

You will give it up.  Cheaper to buy gold or diamonds.

[DoubleJ]

Your from Shelton and don't know what a Grouse is??  I'm confused..  I thought that would have been a class in like 2nd grade in a town of Loggers!   

Not from here, just live here now.  Wish I could find them here in Mason county

[runamuk]

there are no grouse in mason county or shelton no worries no need to look I confirmed it today after driving to my favorite spot...the grouse seem to have joined the bears and left...no idea where they all went but they are not where they were supposed to be

[bobcat]

never.  NEVER and I mean NEVER EVER try to justify hunting by factoring in the cost per animal or per pound of meat.  

You will give it up.  Cheaper to buy gold or diamonds.

[tony04]

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

here's the fun part, if you dont know. to clean them, lay the bird on its back. put a foot on each wing and pull up on the feet. all your left with is the breast and the wings.

[bobcat]

there are no grouse in mason county or shelton no worries no need to look I confirmed it today after driving to my favorite spot...the grouse seem to have joined the bears and left...no idea where they all went but they are not where they were supposed to be

Yeah, there are very few grouse this year. I've seen maybe two all summer, if I had spent as much time in the woods last summer as I did this summer, I would have seen about 300. Numbers are WAY down.