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Thanks Jim.
Sent you a PM.
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Yesterdays birds.. One with the model 31 Rem. 12 ga. and a Herter's spreader load of # 7 shot 1 1/4 0z... The other was taken with the model 97 12 ga. But the spreader load only drew feathers, and a WW of 4's rolled him., ![[Linked Image]](http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s465/WyoCoyoteHunter/IMG_0023_zpsfdefymfl.jpg)
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Save some for the rest of us, WCH.
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Seems to be lots this year.. Travis, do you shoot 3" ammo in your 20 ga.?
Sam, you have the sage grouse or mostly sharptails.. Never saw many sage grouse the year I hunted Montana..
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Wyo, we have sharptails/huns locally, takes a little driving to find sage hens.
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2 3/4 for this guy. Buy a case of Estates each fall. Usually good for four birds by the end of the season. Grin...
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Years ago. Don't remember the exact one though. Well my sage grouse career started with a few birds I shot back in about 2006. It ended once I ate the birds. Ever since I've said I will only shoot them again if I want to get some mounts.
I probably hit more elk with a pickup than you have with a rifle. I have yet to see anyone claim Leupold has never had to fix an optic. I know I have sent a few back. 2 MK 6s, a VX-6, and 3 VX-111s.
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Two more down. ![[Linked Image]](https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8205/29278284914_ec9bdfb662_k.jpg)
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Years ago. Don't remember the exact one though. Well my sage grouse career started with a few birds I shot back in about 2006. It ended once I ate the birds. Ever since I've said I will only shoot them again if I want to get some mounts. I think last year it went into October but I'm not sure. Either way, they're getting cghunty about shooting them and I'd like to have one or two before this season's end. Gumbo makes everything taste good. Hint...  Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Nice shooting Flave, we were out and picked up a couple more this eve. 1999 I spent several weeks in Montana hunting birds.. Sage grouse was open, although I did not shoot any.. I think at that time, it stayed in until maybe Nov. The season was much, much longer than ours..
At first when I hunted them it was a about a 10 day season.. Then things blossomed we had grouse everywhere.. Season opened once in late Aug and went til Oct 1.
Now it opens the 17 and goes til the end of the month.
We used to have a method of cooking them in wine sauce they were pretty good. During the peak years of our grouse population, I had about 15 older friends who grew up eating these birds.. They loved them.. I had a ball shooting grouse for all of them.. Now I have only one widow who wants them.. They have all passed.. I still love shooting them.. The few times I hunted sharpies, they were awesome, but much tougher than sage grouse..
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Flave, how much rain you get?
Wyo, roughly 25 years ago my dad, brother and I were walking the sidelines of a nice mule deer coulee.
Late evening, half hour before dark and we were in 'stealth' mode. All of a sudden a sage hen drifts in from over the nearby 'ridge'. And then 20 more. And then about 50-60 more.
They landed and walked around right by us until we moved. Then they all took off, very surreal moment.
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2014 was the year of big changes in sage grouse regulations. That's when it started closing 9/30 rather than 11/1. In '14 and '15 there was a large part of the state that had no season but that's open back up this year. While technically accurate, my comment of years ago was misleading as it inferred longer than a couple of years. 2 years seems like longer when you start getting CRS syndrome.
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Years ago. Don't remember the exact one though. Well my sage grouse career started with a few birds I shot back in about 2006. It ended once I ate the birds. Ever since I've said I will only shoot them again if I want to get some mounts. I think last year it went into October but I'm not sure. Either way, they're getting cghunty about shooting them and I'd like to have one or two before this season's end. Gumbo makes everything taste good. Hint... Travis I'll have to look for a good recipe
I probably hit more elk with a pickup than you have with a rifle. I have yet to see anyone claim Leupold has never had to fix an optic. I know I have sent a few back. 2 MK 6s, a VX-6, and 3 VX-111s.
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The opening day of sage grouse we were in western Wy. I managed one with my old 870 field gun and WW 3 1/4- 1 1/4-4's.. ![[Linked Image]](http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s465/WyoCoyoteHunter/IMG_1586_zpsdd4qe951.jpg) Nice.....I used to have one of those upland specials....barrel was too short for me but it was a nice little package.... Between "guiding" my friend from WY for Wolves and my old dogs injured shoulder I'm not doing much Grouse hunting this year.....  PS....you don't really eat those things do you..... 
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As the old story goes, get you a stick and go find a sage grouse. They can be dumb so all you have to do is hit them with the stick.
Once you have finished that part of the process, throw the bird away and eat the stick. Much tastier.
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Flave, how much rain you get?
I don't have a rain gauge but it started raining Wednesday morning and didn't stop until Friday evening. Had to be selective about which road to drive down yesterday. Travis
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Field, before my first wife passed away, we had a recipe that we cooked them in wine.. They were good that way.. Since then, the recipe was lost.. Now I shoot a few for my neighbor lady who grew up eating them.. She loves them..
As I said before, I used to have maybe 15 or more folks in the valley that grew up eating them and liked them.. Most are gone now..
That special field is a handi little shotgun.. I bought it mostly for quail in Az. It would be perfect it the barrel were about 24" in stead of 21"
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I hope your dog heals quickly and you kill some wolves..
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Nice shooting Flave, we were out and picked up a couple more this eve. 1999 I spent several weeks in Montana hunting birds.. Sage grouse was open, although I did not shoot any.. I think at that time, it stayed in until maybe Nov. The season was much, much longer than ours..
At first when I hunted them it was a about a 10 day season.. Then things blossomed we had grouse everywhere.. Season opened once in late Aug and went til Oct 1.
Now it opens the 17 and goes til the end of the month.
We used to have a method of cooking them in wine sauce they were pretty good. During the peak years of our grouse population, I had about 15 older friends who grew up eating these birds.. They loved them.. I had a ball shooting grouse for all of them.. Now I have only one widow who wants them.. They have all passed.. I still love shooting them.. The few times I hunted sharpies, they were awesome, but much tougher than sage grouse.. I prefer hunting Sharptails to anything else. I absolutely love them. When I kick up a covey Huns I get a feeling of disappointment. But I should anyway... I have to travel all this week but hopefully I can go after those Sage on Friday if things dry out. I make sausage and wild bird gumbo with all of mine. This is a good roux to try. https://www.amazon.com/Tony-Chacheres-Roux-Gravy-10-0/dp/B001EBPIDSGoes great with 5 shot. Travis
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