I have seen grouse so shot over, they flush up a 1/4 mile ahead.
I have seen grouse so unexposed, that we killed them with rocks.

Where we used to live, we had grouse on our property. My 6 year old son was too small to lift a 10/22 so I would kneel and he used my shoulder as a rest to shoot medium stupid ruffed grouse.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps