Can anyone school me on blue grouse and chukar?

[NR_Hunter]

I tent camp all the way through January.

I lack the mental and physical fortitude for this.

I stayed on the mountain in mid October in a 3 season tent and after one night in the teens I had to camp down on the Yellowtail Lake or Reservoir or whatever it’s actually called.

 

[Potsie]

I lack the mental and physical fortitude for this.

I stayed on the mountain in mid October in a 3 season tent and after one night in the teens I had to camp down on the Yellowtail Lake or Reservoir or whatever it’s actually called.

He cheats. He stays in a palatial wall tent with a stove and all.

I’ve seen it.

 

[El Jason]

He cheats. He stays in a palatial wall tent with a stove and all.

I’ve seen it.

Only when you clowns are along.

 

[NR_Hunter]

I can deal with sleeping on the ground, being dirty, unclean, etc. and I can deal with being outside in extreme colds all day (I mean I'm from MN), but sleeping in the cold???? hell nah. Maybe a hot tent will be in my future someday because I'm also cheap and don't like having to drive to and from a hotel room every day to do stuff.

 

[birdseye]

weren't some of those wyoming chukker hunting videos debunked as being deep faked?

 

[brymoore]

weren't some of those wyoming chukker hunting videos debunked as being deep faked?

Maybe. The guy I watch is real (Bird doggin Wyoming). He hunts with setters in sagebrush type cover. He’s hunted with Eric Forrester too. Eric did videos chukar hunting in Wyoming once.

 

[NR_Hunter]

Well my friends, I have let you all down.

I made it to Wy*ming and did not kill a single chukar. I had one opportunity on my last day, and I watched the birds fly almost straight up against a steep bank and I watch three shotgun patterns smash into the mud everywhere a bird wasn't. But to be fair to myself, I think I wasn't pushing the great chukar habitat early on. I did have a few long hikes tho that didn't produce any birds that I really thought would have, but that's hunting.

I did kill some huns tho! They are definitely a fun bird to hunt and they could be worth a trip all by themselves.

I also didn't kill any blue grouse. I only hunted one spot for them that I had seen them when I was cow elk hunting out there 22. I planned on fishing most of that day, so I wanted get my dog some exercise before a long sit in his kennel. I probably flushed 9-10 birds on a flat top. A lot of people told me they just flushed up into a tree, but they sure as shit didn't for me. They went off the flat top and got into the canopy pretty damn quick.

Fishing was excellent and I fished three very different rivers. I also did some sight seeing to rest the dog, looked at dinosaur tracks and some petroglyphs.

Hopefully, if I decide to do this again next year, my truck doesn't break down and I don't have to have it towed to Billings, MT and have to spend $3.7k getting it fixed and have to drive around a rental for a week.