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I won't kid you. Hunting grouse without dogs is tough. You need to be 100% on your A game. You need to bring all of your skills to the table. But it is definitely possible, and your chances of ...

SOUTH OF BALL CLUB -- In the woods of the Chippewa National Forest, with the late morning sun shining through mostly leafless trees, a beam of light enveloped an English setter named Tyler that ...

In 2020, 63,428 grouse hunters went afield in the state, a fraction over the 2019 record low of 61,608. Compare these tallies with the (modern-day) record-high number of grouse hunters — 161,624 ...

But the proliferation of ATVs plays a role, as do the state's antiquated trapping regulations that result too often in grouse-hunting and other dogs being caught and killed in body-gripping traps.

As an owner and breeder of a rare hunting dog breed, the Deutsch Langhaar, I get plenty of questions from fellow bird hunters who have never heard of, nor seen, the gun dogs I follow behind each fall ...

If you live up here, grouse hunting is something you naturally pursue. As part of that, I took a women’s introduction to wing shooting class and learned about shooting, bird cleaning and dog care.

But hunting grouse behind a well-trained dog is the ultimate bird-hunting adventure, although few, except for the aforementioned elite, keep dogs for grouse hunting anymore.

Ruffed grouse hunting is a paradoxical pursuit. The bird itself is small and delicate; a single pellet is said to be enough to take one down. Yet ruffies are hard to hit in the thick brush they inh… ...

The dogs do most of the work, picking up and following a fresh scent to its source. Like many prey species, grouse may react to a perceived predator either by freezing of fleeing.

There are pockets of grouse, but nothing like we saw more than 30 years ago. It takes game to make any hunting dog.

Many hunters share a common daydream, with a few differences. Perhaps it features a handsome pointer, spaniel or setter returning to them with a grouse or pheasant, depositing it in ...