Muleyhunter78
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Just listening to the latest podcast and can't help myself. I always shoot grouse on the ground, on the stump, in the tree. All the way. Take em when you can!
Ground shooting grouse
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Ben Long
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Heck yes. I like to eat grouse and there are plenty of 'em. I no longer shoot 'em out the truck window, as I was raised.
el unit
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Yes. I doubt I could hit them in the air with my bow and they are nowhere to be found when I'm carrying a gun. Yum.
Well, this is comforting to hear. I wanted to do a "ground pounding" episode one time and "the powers to be" told me it would be unethical, offensive, and such would be in bad taste.
I see a YouTube episode in the making. Hopefully you guys will come to my defense when we do it. And we will all get together for free beer and ground slooshed grouse.
This Alaska spruce grouse was ground swatted as we floated by.
I see a YouTube episode in the making. Hopefully you guys will come to my defense when we do it. And we will all get together for free beer and ground slooshed grouse.
This Alaska spruce grouse was ground swatted as we floated by.
Ben Long
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All due respect, Big Fin, but since when did you let "offensive" or "bad taste" influence your behavior? 
And yet it's ok for other shows to do a high fence hunt shooting 300" whitetails pumped full of steroids over a pile of corn? What an F'in joke. I guess what's acceptable is what people like to see though and people love themselves some big whitetails.
All due respect, Big Fin, but since when did you let "offensive" or "bad taste" influence your behavior?
Hmm. You've got a point there. Planning is now underway.
nidahunter
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I always thought that was how you shot grouse..... we woulda starved in college if it wasn't for the after class grouse hunts. And not many of them were in the air...
LuketheDog
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Is there another way to shoot grouse? I'm never carrying a shotgun when I come across them, and arrows are too expensive for flying shots with my compound bow...
Bukwild3
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Probably would be a great episode to do with Rinella since you owe him a wolf! He talks about grouse all the time in his podcast!
RobG
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I wonder if we were raised by the same father.
I take them with a rifle (or miss them with a bow). A head shot with an '06 is fair chase enough. If I have a shotgun I sometimes wait until they fly, depending on how bad I want one. Hunting with a dog gives you a far bigger advantage than having to spot one before it blows out.
The high-fence analogy misses the mark since we aren't trying to boost our ego with a trophy. I eat low-fence chickens and don't feel bad about it at all.
Nameless Range
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This fall my brother and I tried to only shoot Blues on the wing on a couple hunts. Very hard, and in timber near impossible. And if you do pull it off you are likely pulling shot out of the meat.
Those Spruce Grouse are some of the prettiest birds out there IMO, and I'd love to see a grouse-centric Fresh Tracks.
Those Spruce Grouse are some of the prettiest birds out there IMO, and I'd love to see a grouse-centric Fresh Tracks.
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Brittany Chukarman
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I never shoot them running on the ground.... I wait for them to stop.
2ski
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Its not illegal.....a purest bird hunter would argue unethical, but....its not illegal.
Muleyhunter78
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Hell yes. What a great episode that would be.
Irrelevant
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sage advise.
elkrchr
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I try to never let them become airborne because if they do, there is only a remote chance they are coming home for supper. I try to envision them with antlers and four legs which makes "sluicing them" all the easier!
