Grouse season open- any birds out there

[laker1]

Out in the woods around Brainerd and did not see anything.

[Grum]

How are the leaves? I'm thinking it's still to thick for me as I no longer have a dog. I hope those who made it out had some luck. Love to hear the reports on number of birds sighted.

[iceman2010]

I went out yesterday up north, about two hours and no birds... very disappointing opening weekend thus far. But I plan on giving it a go again this afternoon.

[srfishin15]

Missed one I should have hit yesterday, hit the tree instead. Only bird in 3-4 hours.

[setterguy]

Moved one bird twice. That was it. I really hope they are in family groups still and we will start to see more birds as they break up otherwise this might be a rough year. Don't know about you guys but I was about 2 hours north of the cities and it was really dry. We tried to find water but there was little to none to be found and the little we did find was too hard to get to.

[Matt Breuer]

We spent Friday night at the cabin in NW MN and hunted all day Saturday. Between ruffs and sharps we put up 29 birds and bagged 5. Woke up to pouring rain and slept in then drove home... worst year I've seen for underbrush and trail weeds...

[life=outdoors92]

saw plenty of birds. upwards to 40. lots of family groups. north of rapids. didn't shoot any due to the leaves. had a lot of great opportunities in the mist today with all the birds hangin out under the balsams next to the roads/trails, but haven't shot a thing since pigeons this summer so my aim was off....

[2thepointsetters]

Took out one of the dogs in the rain this afternoon for an hour and had 8 pointed birds with 1 bagged.

[TRZ II]

Very bad near Moose Lake. Seen 2 birds in about 4 hrs of hunting. I'm done till leaves come off.

[fishuhalik]

was out most of the day saturday up by the hibbing/grand rapids area checking tree stands but had the 20 gauge with. heard one flush in thick cover, didnt see it. logged 6.7 miles walking according to the gps, both trails and woods. its usually a really good area, i was shocked. saw one other hunter that had 2 flushes, 1 bird. we did find a nice 6pt skull about 50yds behind my parents house, which was pretty sad/cool.

[Cheetah]

I was out deer hunting in Polk County, WI. Last year and again this year I didn't see any grouse in the areas I was checking for deer sign. There used to be birds in those areas, but not lately. Doesn't look good over there.

[TylerS]

Hunted nearly all day Saturday and, despite my better judgment, an hour Sunday morning in the rain. Saturday my buddy and I along with our two dogs put up two shootable birds (one bird twice) and knocked down one...a youngin' that had a single tail feather. I'm hoping it was just the density of the underbrush as the reason behind a lack of bird sightings. We also heard two grouse flush back in the brush, but I hardly count those in my tally.

Sunday was awful. The pooch was "dog tired" (Ha!) and all the wet grass made tromping trails miserable. We called it a morning around 8:30 a.m. and hit the dusty trail back to Fargo. Hope luck improves (and, in the meantime, the leaves come down) by the time we're back up in two weeks!

[Harmonica Bear]

We were up in Cotton MN. We hunted pertty hard Saturday and hunted some nice areas with a local. Still didn't matter, one bird, that was it. There were quite few people out I thought.

Talk about dog tired. Gus the Dog couldn't even wait for spot on the couch inside to open up. He just deciced I am going to take this piece of concrete right here and lay down. Haha!

[Jmnhunter]

dad and I went near the Park rapids area and it was disapointing, not a flush all day saturday.. didnt go out sunday, stayed dry instead and slept in alittle... next time we go will be when the leaves drop

[RustySasquatch]

I went up near isabella and it was pretty rough. Kicked up 3 birds all day and ended up with 2.

[TRZ II]

Grouse hunting looks to be a WOT this year. Waste Of Time.

[Harmonica Bear]

Yep - everybody should go back to duck hunting. no sense wasting your time

[DinnerPail]

Yep - everybody should go back to duck hunting. no sense wasting your time

Agree, no birds, everybody should stay home and save the gas money

No deer either

[DANR]

3 of us spent all day Saturday in the woods and logged tons of miles - saw more ATVs than Grouse

[knowsnothing]

Harmonica Bear,

That is one tired looking setter. I didnt know they laid floors!!! That would be nice as 58 lbs is getting excessive for a lap dog. Hopefully I can get our girls out this weekend and experience that!

[Dusty]

yep,no Grouse around at all. I wouldn't even bother going.