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Offline boneaddict

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Blue Grouse
« on: March 30, 2008, 01:53:10 PM »
I don't remember if I ever got this shot on here.  I had alot of trouble uploading it one day.  Some gliche in my photbucket.  Anyway.  Here it is.  If you have seen it, my apologies.  ENJOY!

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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2008, 02:08:33 PM »
Ah... I love those birds! 
 :drool:
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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2008, 03:50:57 PM »
 :archer:   :drool:
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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2008, 05:35:23 PM »
I prefer them like this on the way to the skillett after me and buddy went out hunting them.
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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2008, 06:14:10 PM »
 :EAT:

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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2008, 07:38:32 PM »
little guy out beeing dumb as a post.
Work sucks!!!! I should be shed hunting

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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2008, 09:47:20 PM »
Not sure if I posted these. Sometimes you shoot grouse where it is way to steep to go get them yourself.  :chuckle:

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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2008, 05:25:49 PM »
That looks like a Ruffy Klick.  They are fun this time of year too.

Nice set up there Ice.

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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2008, 09:39:59 PM »
Yep, learned that "grouse rope" trick a few years back. Even when solo, I will rappel down a hill after a downed grouse, then walk/pull myself straight up the hill to my hitch on my truck. We used to pass on the birds that treed on those Freaking steep sidehills, now we bang them, and bail off the edge to pick them up. I leave the shotgun in the truck and slide my Ruger on my hip and have put it to use a few times going after a downed bird. (Besides, the kids think it is really cool...heh heh heh... :chuckle:
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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2008, 09:57:28 PM »
I love cooking those over the fire...  :drool:
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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2008, 07:42:24 AM »
We've put a few of those outta their misery eh Bone... I have a REALLY good Spruce grouse pic i'll try and dig up...
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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2008, 09:01:40 AM »
How about a picture of a Ptarmigan I took while hiking in the Cascades last fall!!
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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2008, 09:03:07 AM »
You have got to be kidding me, how cool!!! What a great sight and photo! Congrats!
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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2008, 12:06:33 PM »
mmmm dear camp appetisers
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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2008, 07:44:15 PM »
Thats awesome sky.  I've only seen one breeding pair here in washington.

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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2008, 10:29:48 PM »
Nice pic Sky, they are a really pretty bird. There used to be a bunch of them on Immigrant Hill on I-84 past  Pendleton, Or. I grew up in Near Hermiston and would go camping/hunting around there a lot. I would see them all the time but only at a distance. :chuckle:
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Re: Blue Grouse
« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2008, 10:48:47 PM »
Thats a beautiful bird...I've never laid eyes on one yet!
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