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People shoot grouse with shotguns??? That just seems wrong.:)

If I can't get a head shot or its a bit far, I just aim for where the wing attaches to the body and that usually brings'em outta the tree.

My boys used to carry their .22's when we went elk hunting when we lived in Colorado. They'd shoot any blue grouse we found, and I'd shoot any elk we found with my .270.
Here in AZ the grouse are much more scarce, and the law don't let you shoot them with a .22, only shotgun. I recently got a H&R 20-ga that works just fine. Boys are grown up now, and still in CO, still hunting grouse and other stuff.
Those grouse are mighty fine eating.

Shooting mountain grouse with shotgun only...WTF?

Leave it up to Fisn-n-Game...

Ingwe

May??

I use "sub-sonics" - perfect for that!

Yep, May. The grouse pictured above with no head was shot whilst bear hunting in May.

Then that would make you a .....poacher. Sorry if I still believe in ETHICS.

FC2007

Better check your Alaska F&G regs and make fewer assumptions.

That would make you a [bleep] idiot, but no surprise there. Another [bleep] bird that don't know if he should wind his ass or scratch his watch.

Grouse in Unit 1 Alaska is open from August 1 till May 15.

Of course don't let FACTS get in your way. You should have been caught in a reservoir tip.

Looks like oldman1942 did produce one kid, cuzz FC2007 is too stupid to belong to anyone else.

Who in heck told you that lie? The only time shooting them with a shotgun makes any sense at all, is when you can ground sluice no chance of wasting money and just one bird at a time, I used to have a brother-in law (died this last year) that would just make you proud, his ground sluicing would always yield more than 10 birds at a time. I remember he once sluiced like 16 geese with one shot. A true Alaskan, it's how I will always remember him.

I enjoy the hunt. When the gun comes up the object is a dead bird, end of story it is no longer sport. On the ground or in a tree is fine with me even preferrable over a wingshot. I can hit them on the wing, I believe many many birds thought to be missed are hit only later to become fox food, this is especially true with flock birds such as ptarmys
pak

It wasn't a rimfire, but I did take a grouse with a cast bullet from my 30-30 Marlin. It was on the forest floor, running and stopping about 35 yards away. A Lyman 31141 over 10 grains of Unique took it. I had a 170 grain jacketed in the chamber. I had to lever out 3 rounds to clear the rifle, then single load the cast bullet load.

Stringiest grouse I ever had.

I have to confess, to the consternation of "traditional" grouse hunters, that a lifetime diet of various kinds of venison long ago rendered a grouse as a symbol of nothing more than white meat...and a welcome change.
Hence, when I see one, I'm just like Fat Bastid ( which I have been called... )
And have been known to pursue them with whatever weapon is in my hand, screaming " Get in Mah Belly!!!..."


Ingwe

My favorite (ruffed) grouse gun is a Smith & Wesson M-17 with a red dot scope.

I used to behead them with a .257 Roberts occasionally as well.....but the S & W is far and away the weapon of choice now.