Any Reports ??

[CodyDawg]

WalleyeGuy, similar to your experience. We walked grass and saw a few, but then we hit the willow lined ditches and swamps and got our 3-man limit pretty quick on Saturday. On Sunday, we only hunted about an hour and a half at the same place and got 4 for 3 guys (and one easily shot bird got lucky and flew towards a house so we let it go). So we harvested 10 birds off one place this weekend. All were young birds and we also let some go that were too young.

[muc33]

I broke down today after taking a break this weekend to spend with the wife. The dogs were both looking at me like I shot thier mother right in front of them all weekend, (well at least is seemed that bad)... So we went for a quick walk this afternoon, expecting more exersize than anything. So much for that. I got into the first patch of dogwood and rooster one popped up, cackled like a big boy and fell just as hard! About 3 seconds after I got him in my vest number two popped up and tried his hardest to cackle like the first one, but sounded alot like Peter Brady hitting puberty... I let him go without a shot, and then just a couple minutes later, a hen followed by a nice mature bird came up, and I missed with shot one low but corrected nicely on shot two and the deal was done. It was a private piece of switch grass and red cedar and a couple patches of dogwood, it had a creek in the property and was surrounded by soybeans. All in all a good half hour and fun for the hounds!

[grousehunter]

Went out for a little while this afternoon. Should have had my limit, but my shooting was lacking. I ended up with one nice rooster.

[MinnesotaMongo]

Nice Picture Grouse Hunter. The hound is getting one last sniff in - LOL.

[BLACKJACK]

Hunted Saturday on a public area by Atwater and was pleasantly surprised by the number of birds!!! Trouble was lots of immature birds, hard to identify roosters. Got the one nice one I saw, my brother missed a couple that he should have had. Sunday went to a different public area, only saw one pheasant but should have had my plug in because I jumped a lot of ducks.

Went out last night to a big (+300 acres) public area that I had never hunted before. Had a nice hunt, I love hunting new territory, jumped a few birds, never got a shot at a few that got up on the far side of the brush, got the one bird that I had a good shot at, he dropped right in some brush and water, made me appreciate the dogs, sun came out for awhile, overall a nice hunt.

[CodyDawg]

Grousehunter,

Nice pic! I love the gun. I shoot the same thing. Mine has shot over 10,000 rounds and just keeps on performing. I would love to find a used 20 ga 390 for my kids, but havent had any luck yet.

[tweedlap]

Hunted SW MN. Saturday 4 guys and 4 dogs. We hunted most of the day and ended up with 5 Roosters. Did not see many hens or roosters. 85% of the beans and 100% of the corn still in the field.

Sunday, hunted two hours in the morning and baggeg 1 rooster.

Saw 5 Roosters, at about 7:45 walking into a standing corn field.

Just smiled and moved on.

tweed

[Archerysniper]

Got off work too late to make it to the tree stand tonight and figured might as well take the labs for a walk behind the barn walked 100 yards of grass and brush in the creek bottom and the dogs put up 2 hens and one rooster 1 shot one rooster now the 1.5 year old pup is whining by the door still wanting to hunt. Man I love watching good dogs hunt.

[CRAZYEYES]

5 Roosters from this morning near Glenwood. hope this works! First time I have posted an image.

[CRAZYEYES]

It works, cellphone quality but what the hay! I think the one on the right got its neck wrung a little hard.

[BLACKJACK]

Made it out last night after work, hunted a big wildlife area with corn on one side, got the first rooster by the edge of the corn and on the second one, the dog worked great, she frantically worked her way into a tangle of downed trees, willows, and dogwoods, I knew a bird was coming out of there, it was just a matter of whether it would come out my side and give me a shot or whether it would go out the far side out of my view - and it came out and gave me a nice 30 yard crossing shot. Then the dog had to find it in the cattails. What would we do without them?! Then I had a 45 minute walk back to my truck but it was worth it.

[Neighbor_guy]

I took advantage of a day off to get out and hit the WMA I wanted to hunt on Sat. Had the place to myself and got the dog out and running. Missed an easy shot at a Woodie I jumped out of the drainage ditch. Hard to sneek up on them with Blaze on.

Then we worked the willows and cattails in the "dry" end of the ditch but the dog wanted to get out of it and run an area with birch/poplar whips. Not 10 min in and ROOSTER!!! Black Cloud #2's nocked him down on a left to right. The dog did FANTASTIC on that bird, it was our first "public land" rooster. 10 min after that and I fanned on a right to left from a small patch of willows on the edge of a mowed off alfalfa field. I was WAY behind on the first shot, second barrel got nothing but tail feathers. Dog gave up after that. And has been snooring since.

This was the closest I could get to getting her to pose for a picture. I like the second better...

[CodyDawg]

excellent pictures!