grouse coloring

[WCTaxidermy]

Hi Seth, for grouse I would recommend not going any bigger than 6 shot.  I personally use 7 1/2 shot for my grouse that I want to keep and mount.  I also HIGHLY recommend that anyone who wants a good quality grouse mount to wait until the end of October and into November to harvest a mounter, due to those pesky pin feathers.  John

[seth30]

WC thanks for the intel! 

[Greg30-06]

I shot this one sunday.  Never seen one with the black like it has on the neck feathers.  Thought it was cool, and tasty too!

[Greg30-06]

I recomend a Ruger 10/22

[boneaddict]

Looks like you nailed a spruce to me and they are a lot more common up in the NE corner.   They are about as dumb as rocks.  You can catch em by the feet if you are fast enough.

[Greg30-06]

It was actually in the northwest around Mt Vernon.

[boneaddict]

i shot a ruffed grouse up in NE washington that had coloring id never seen before

Looks like you nailed a spruce to me and they are a lot more common up in the NE corner.   They are about as dumb as rocks.  You can catch em by the feet if you are fast enough.

I was referring to the authors post Greg.  Yours is a beautiful Ruff.  Thats their perfect coloring.

[Greg30-06]

Yeah I figured after I read a little closer.  Sorry!!

[high country]

here is the orange that was spoke of

[Shootmoore]

That is a Spruce Grouse Hen tail, also known as the Franklin Grouse.  If it did not have the red or orange over the eyes it was a hen.  The Spruce/Franklin is dumber than a box of rocks.  My grandpa used to walk up on them and toss his cowboy hat over the top of them.

Shootmoore

[high country]

agreed, the franklins are as dumb as a bag of hammers, so muchso, that  I will not eat them for fear of losing intellegence.

[boneaddict]

 

[boneaddict]

Could be why they are going the way of the DODO bird

[high country]

depends on where you look.