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Other Hunting => Upland Birds => Topic started by: floatinghat on September 27, 2009, 04:45:15 PM

Title: any West side of the sound grouse?
Post by: floatinghat on September 27, 2009, 04:45:15 PM: I want to take my lab out and introduce her (and me) to Grouse. Any pointer on the west side of the sound? I've google'd bing'd etc and have not found much talk about them over hear. I live in Kitsap but will travel.

How about mountain quail? I know the Pheasant answer.
Title: Re: any West side of the sound grouse?
Post by: gooeydruid on September 27, 2009, 08:52:58 PM: I don't know of anything near Kitsap but I was in the same position as you.
What I did was look up the previous year's reported results on which counties reported the higher grouse harvests in Region 2 - Coastal.
Then just find some national forest land (stay out of the national parks) and head up the forest service roads and find some small roads off them and start hunting.
I met a warden up on the forest roads was lucky enough to get some pointers on where he had seen hunters getting higher numbers in my county last year, gonna go try his recommendations on Friday.
Title: Re: any West side of the sound grouse?
Post by: PWN Kurt on September 27, 2009, 11:33:20 PM: I found some okay numbers up in the Wynoochee area. Old overgrown logging roads.

Good luck!

Kurt
Title: Re: any West side of the sound grouse?
Post by: gooeydruid on September 28, 2009, 01:04:16 AM: Wynoochee is in the south part of Olympic Forest kinda off Wynoochee Valley Road, right?
Title: Re: any West side of the sound grouse?
Post by: merlo105 on September 28, 2009, 07:31:26 PM: Where are you located in kitsap, could help yuh out
Title: Re: any West side of the sound grouse?
Post by: floatinghat on September 29, 2009, 11:40:26 AM: Sorry I was offline for a couple of days. I looked around a some of the previous stats but couldn't find much. I will keep looking.

merlo, don't tell anyone, I'm on BI and am willing to shoot stuff :)
Title: Re: any West side of the sound grouse?
Post by: merlo105 on September 30, 2009, 06:29:24 PM: Thats some funny crap did some work on the Island today. Theres some decent grouse hunting on the other side of the canal. Any ?s just pm me