Sharptails/Huns with labradors

[Allen]

Don't worry....we know it was

I've heard it described as the 20 mph sneak.

 

[Allen]

I’ve joked about inventing/using grouse deeks, but they might actually work!! I too have patterned and pass shot sharpies. They tend to lock the brakes and land amongst friends. Not as predictable as waterfowl, but they do it!

More than once I've had sharpies land in a spread of duck and goose decoys.

 

[Traxion]

If it was out of the pickup window whilst still rolling you’d be legendary!!

A lot of people didn’t know how to kill a grouse without a pickup until about 1997 lol. Single row tree rows used to look like highways lol. And late season big flocks were much more approachable at speed, or so I’m told.

They really are fun to hunt. Varied cover, goofy critters. I’ve found them on near barren hilltops, brushy creeks, shoulder high corn, sunflowers, you name it. Lots of spillover with Huns and roosters makes for fun hunting.

 

[TwoLabs]

I’m really excited for the season to start. If anything, it’ll get me in shape for pheasants

 

[svnmag]

I’m really excited for the season to start. If anything, it’ll get me in shape for pheasants

Whatever happens: You started a good thread IMO.

 

[Rowdie]

A lot of people didn’t know how to kill a grouse without a pickup until about 1997 lol. Single row tree rows used to look like highways lol. And late season big flocks were much more approachable at speed, or so I’m told.

They really are fun to hunt. Varied cover, goofy critters. I’ve found them on near barren hilltops, brushy creeks, shoulder high corn, sunflowers, you name it. Lots of spillover with Huns and roosters makes for fun hunting.

Single tree rows in wheat stuble with snow on the ground. Fun times.

In the early 90s I was working on a job on east side of state with a guy who had a great time traveling out west hunting grouse hust like this. I couldn't convince him that it was a no no.

 

[svnmag]

I too like AA 7.5's for grouse/partridge. Once pheasant season opens I just shoot them with whatever I'm using for pheasants. Most often that'll be a 20Ga and 1Oz of #5's from an IC or SKT choke.

Turkeys are the only "upland" bird I shoot more constriction than IC.

WV recently made .22lr illegal for Spring Turkey. They can eat a dick and have lost tens of dollars. I understand sportsmanship/safety concerns associated with (for YEARS) previously legal CF rds. It's knee jerk bullshit: Same as a 4in .357 with open sights in a treestand during "bow season". The "skills" merge. I surmise a lawyer could argue against a .22 equipped with a scope. The counter argument would be: "meat damage", "respect for the animal", "skill" and "shot placement":

ALL .22lr go subsonic @ about "75". For those not in the "know"--going "subsonic" can make things unpredictable.

The wound is similar and probably "less" than modern arrows for both. Sorry not sorry for the "hijack":




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