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Fall Grouse Hunting with My Woman and My Dog
« on: December 13, 2020, 03:59:02 PM »
Fall might be my favorite time of year.  It is.  Hunting for grouse was a little slow in our area, but we ended up bagging 6 birds for the supper table.  One one of my favorite meals is grouse strips and wild mushrooms.  Hope you enjoy the trip!


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Re: Fall Grouse Hunting with My Woman and My Dog
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2020, 04:09:50 PM »
Good looking lab!
Nice video, thanks for sharing.  :tup:
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Re: Fall Grouse Hunting with My Woman and My Dog
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2020, 04:20:27 PM »
 :tup: :tup:   Couldn't ask for more
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Re: Fall Grouse Hunting with My Woman and My Dog
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2020, 04:20:35 PM »
Good looking lab!
Nice video, thanks for sharing.  :tup:
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Watched it twice, nice video work.
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Re: Fall Grouse Hunting with My Woman and My Dog
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2020, 04:41:50 PM »
Glad you like it.  I'm already looking forward to next fall.  If you see any birds I passed by, I don't want to know!   :chuckle:

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Re: Fall Grouse Hunting with My Woman and My Dog
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2020, 06:13:47 PM »
Best part of hunting is foraging wile hunting!

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Re: Fall Grouse Hunting with My Woman and My Dog
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2020, 09:20:45 PM »
Tig, you and your wonderful people made my day!

Appreciation for the scenery, companionship, exercise, and wild food are evident throughout this video.

Thank you and may there be many more grouse in your future!

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Re: Fall Grouse Hunting with My Woman and My Dog
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2020, 10:28:08 PM »
Thank you Robinhood.  Glad I could share the experience.  Glad you enjoyed it!

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Re: Fall Grouse Hunting with My Woman and My Dog
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2020, 05:26:25 AM »
Thanks for sharing.  I appreciate the ziploc bag water bowl trick.  My pup usually drinks out of my camel back like a water fountain but it's not very efficient at times and we go through water pretty quickly.  I'm still working on finding some more open terrain here in our local woods.  Seems like every time we jump one it's so thick I can't get a shot or even find the darn thing in the trees.  Just need to find some better spots.  Beautiful country where you are.

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Re: Fall Grouse Hunting with My Woman and My Dog
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2020, 07:16:37 AM »
Thanks for sharing.  I appreciate the ziploc bag water bowl trick.  My pup usually drinks out of my camel back like a water fountain but it's not very efficient at times and we go through water pretty quickly.  I'm still working on finding some more open terrain here in our local woods.  Seems like every time we jump one it's so thick I can't get a shot or even find the darn thing in the trees.  Just need to find some better spots.  Beautiful country where you are.

Yeah the ziplock does pretty good.  I keep some in my pack for meat bags.  It was so hot outside, I breasted one bird and bagged it in a ziploc next to my water bottle.  I think there are collapsible dog bowls, which would be pretty nice.

I hear you on the thick woods.  I shoot a 870 12 ga, which is pretty heavy and clumsy for the thick woods.  An old buddy visited us with his Browning Citori White Lightning 20, and I couldn't believe the difference.  I'd love to have a gun like that for ruffed grouse.  He meantioned trading it for one of Tig's pups, so the might be a chance for a deal in the future.  I don't mind the 870 for blue grouse, but those thicket birds can be tough!

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Re: Fall Grouse Hunting with My Woman and My Dog
« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2020, 08:13:17 AM »
Cool trip, grouse is definitely on the list of things I think I should do more often.

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Re: Fall Grouse Hunting with My Woman and My Dog
« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2020, 12:51:43 PM »
Great video thanks for sharing
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