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2019 season got off to a late start for us... A short vacation turned up no birds but some fun times... Finally got into some sage grouse hunting... Needless to say Maggie was happy.. Kate hates to get her photo taken and hopped into the truck... My old 870 and WW 3 1/4 -1 1/4 - 7 s did a fine job..

Nice start!!!! Hope you have a great season. 👍

Like wise...

great job Kate and Maggie!

Very nicely done! Sage grouse are a hoot to hunt! Got them on Hank's bucket list. Maybe next year...

We have been out a couple times after prairie grouse. A huge sunflower field is messing things up currently. Lots of grouse around, lots of hawks too and 3-4000 acres of sunflowers next to our pasture isn't helping. Things might straighten out in a few weeks.

Nice sage hen you got there, I haven't taken one in ten years. The season was open, then closed, then tags were issued and now closed again. Fun birds to hunt.

I'm in the Black Hills right now working on some projects and hoping to get out after a ruff or two this week.

Hunted about 5 times in northern michigan without a dog. Have flushed a couple woodcock but no pats. I must be in the wrong places.

I’ve killed 80 or so doves since September 1. Not enough quail around here to bother with these days so when the doves leave I’ll have to wait until December to go chase pheasants. Picking up an old friend I haven’t seen in a few years on my way to SD this year for the pheasant hunt so I’m really excited, should be a blast.

Best of luck Kid.. We only have a few doves that mostly move in with cold weather up north... Pheasants should be fun.. We usually do ok... Blue grouse have been a bust the couple times I have tried for them... Hang in there..

These were the last sage grouse of the 2019 season.. A good year..

Good stuff!

Hawk season is shaping up to be a banner year. With hawk numbers at record highs all across North America, expect many spot and stalk opportunities for riflemen shooting 22-250's and the like. Calling produces some while most hunters hunt the telephone pole lines from the F250.


<wakes up from dream>.

4 ruffed grouse and 6 woodcock from around the cabin, one ruffed from home. Feel pretty good about that as I have maybe 5 hours hunting up north and about the same at home between dodging rain storms and work. Home is much better pheasant country and am anxiously waiting for that to open. Sharptails will open then in this zone, it normally opened in September but is a month later now. I prefer chasing them in the morning before the dew dries as I only get wet to the shins rather than head to toe.

I finally caught a good night on the prairie grouse and filled a limit with two prairie chickens and one sharptail. Dogs were in heaven, it was a long time coming.

Headed to SD on the 20th for 5 days hunting pheasant. Taking all my sons and SILs. We're gonna have a blast, been looking forward to this since we did it last year.

Today was opening day for pheasants and sharptail grouse up here. Conditions were not very good, winds 15 mph, temps in the mid-30s, and snow/sleet/rain all day. The dogs never found the sharpies but we did manage to find 2 roosters and put them in the bag. The bright spot was taking 3 mallards which were sitting in the many ponds found in every low spot. It is about the only good found in the seemingly month of rain we have had.

Will give a brief run at ruffed grouse tomorrow as I swap out cards in the game cameras. Then it will be deep cleaning to make the place ready for my wife's "craft weekend" at the cabin. Hopefully, aflight of woodcock have arrived as the one dog could use the contacts. He lost the desire for birds over the summer and is just beginning to show interest. It would be nice to get him on another 47 contacts in 30 minutes like happened with a different dog.

I finally got another Blue Grouse. They are hard to find here in Kalifornia. Even then, they often give you only a glimpse. Got a nice male on my 3rd. hunt. Have an area that has produced at least sightings for many years. But, this year there were none to be found. And I still haven't seen any Mountain Quail. Maybe they just didn't get up as high as I was hunting. E

I've only been out twice for sagehen and did OK.

Owen and I took limits opening day and went out one more day the next weekend where he was deer hunting.

Rosie had a great time. She's not altogether convinced she likes the smell of gutted sagehen, however.



Last Saturday...

Also, Owen and his dad went out the end of Sept for the forest grouse opener and got three blue grouse. They were few and very high, but the two toughed it out. We forgot to take pix.

I have to go to a shooting preserve to shoot any birds around here. I do put as much fun into it as I can. Black powder muzzle loading guns help add some challenge.