Sidways Grouse Hunt

Past saturday myself and a buddy of mine + his dad went out in my new truck out north of Edson ( not sure how many of you are familiar ith this area), and boy was it a roller coaster day. I guess the day before it had been raining so all the back oil field roads had about 2inchs of slop on top. In this hilly country deary me, i dont think i've ever driven side ways for that long in my life. There was a few times were we thougth we would never get back out. However by the end of the day, we had bagged 9 birds. 5 ruffled 4 spruce. And took back half of edson attached to my truck

Im going to add, because i thought it was real neat, we came upon 4 just on the side of road near the end of the day, filling their craw with stones from the road. Im happy to say i got 2 with one shot, and my buddys dad got 1 then my buddy succsessfully chassed on into the woods. 3 our of 4 aint bad.

Sounds like fun, although that mud (which seems to run 800 km south to where we've hunted around the Sweetgrass Hills in MT) can be nerve-wracking.

They are called pine hens around here and are second only to chukkars in difficulty. Love every minute of the season!!!

K.I.A. wrote: Im going to add, because i thought it was real neat, we came upon 4 just on the side of road near the end of the day, filling their craw with stones from the road. Im happy to say i got 2 with one shot, and my buddys dad got 1 then my buddy succsessfully chassed on into the woods. 3 our of 4 aint bad.

RONK wrote: K.I.A. wrote: Im going to add, because i thought it was real neat, we came upon 4 just on the side of road near the end of the day, filling their craw with stones from the road. Im happy to say i got 2 with one shot, and my buddys dad got 1 then my buddy succsessfully chassed on into the woods. 3 our of 4 aint bad.    You "ground-swatted" them, didn't you?

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RONK wrote: K.I.A. wrote: Im going to add, because i thought it was real neat, we came upon 4 just on the side of road near the end of the day, filling their craw with stones from the road. Im happy to say i got 2 with one shot, and my buddys dad got 1 then my buddy succsessfully chassed on into the woods. 3 our of 4 aint bad.    You "ground-swatted" them, didn't you?

I dont know what that is lol. However i aimed at the closest ( 15 yards away) with an old side by side 20ga hudsons bay shot gun and after i fired the one i was aiming at was flapping away on the ground as well as tthe one that was about a foot beside it.