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Screw that - head shooting a sitting bird with a shotgun is the way to go.... KISS.  If it is good enough for turkey hunters, it's damned well good enough for grouse! Once "head shot" a ptarmigan at about 15 feet with the scope-sighted '06 while sheep hunting. Forgot the scope is a mite higher than the bore. Wound up with the head and the back skin all the way back to a single leg, plus a smear on the rocks. You and Randy are a pair to draw from make no mistake 😉
"You've been here longer than the State of Alaska is old!"
*** my Grandaughters
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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Screw that - head shooting a sitting bird with a shotgun is the way to go.... KISS. If it is good enough for turkey hunters, it's damned well good enough for grouse! Once "head shot" a ptarmigan at about 15 feet with the scope-sighted '06 while sheep hunting. Forgot the scope is a mite higher than the bore. Wound up with the head and the back skin all the way back to a single leg, plus a smear on the rocks. to draw from make no mistake 😉 That would be a pair that beats three of a kind...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Campfire Outfitter
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I once head shot a ptarmigan with a 10/22. Wouldn't have been as noteworthy if I hadn't been saddled with a pack containing two hindquarters and a side of ribs off a big bull caribou and the bird wasn't flying.
He stepped out of the brush about ten yards in front of me and stood up on a tussock. I couldn't get the stock to my shoulder due to the padded packstrap and whiffed the gimme shot as he stood there. Swung and touched off a second round as he flushed at which point he folded. Upon inspection he had a hole exactly through both eyes.
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Campfire Ranger
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lol no I never mastered that shot. but will say I was quite surprised when I first went grouse hunting, found some birds and damn near had to kick them to get them to fly off the road. They seemed big as a basketball.
took a spell for awhile where I did hunt them with a ruger redhawk in .44 mag. with #9 shotshells.
that was more funner.
I've uh got over not shooting them on the ground or a tree with a .22, tis my fave now, head shot bird makes for good eating.
btw how was that skin? yummy?
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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