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I got spoiled in Alaska with grouse hunting there 12 years .I use to see over 100 grouse a day .Here in North georgia mountains grouse are few and far between .I just saw one today by my cabin.I need to plant some sorgum for them.I hope thinning trees and planting sorgum brings more in .My English setter Princess has not got to hunt any yet !
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Cabin...ruffed grouse...English setter... What more could Anyone ask for! Rates two-cool 
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Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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100 a day. I gotta hunt those woods!
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100 a day. I gotta hunt those woods! Places here where the daily limit on ptarmigan (the red grouse of Europe) is 50 and some where it is 100!
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Michael,
It was a good year for ruffs here but our apex predators ground-sluice em off the gravel roads very early.
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Don't plant sorghum, plant clover and fruit trees like crabapple, pincherry, chokecherry, high bush cranberry.
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Good advice: Along with young buds of almost any tree, tree nuts, ground cover leaves, grapes, etc. Don't forget some thermal cover. They need a young emerging forest. Give them what they want and they will stay. Addition: Ground logs and stumps for drumming. A water source is always a plus. Water seeps and rivlets. https://www.ruffedgrousesociety.org/grouse-facts
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laissez les bons temps rouler
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I have a dozen or so on my 3 acres. They are incredibly stupid. Sometimes I almost have to run them over to get out of my driveway. I love to eat them, but i have a problem shooting them because my wife considers them her "Chickens". They get a little thinned out some years, but they always seem to come back. I put out a little Corn or Sunflower seeds when we get a lot of snow. They get some of it, but so do the crows and Blue Jays.
VernAK is correct. They like to hang out around Aspen or Poplar trees. Also put a few Raspberry or Chokecherry bushes in full sun. They like those also.
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Come down here and I will show you some educated ones. For the most part, the show will be short and quick. 
laissez les bons temps rouler
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The one's I hunted in Idaho in Oct were dumber than a sack of hammer's. Had to throw pine cones at 'em to get them airborne. Good tasting tho wrapped in bacon.
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