How was everybody’s grouse season?

[tacklejunkie]

 The rain we had in October didn’t help mine.  I did see a lot of birds and did get a couple on my last day hunting before I hung up the shotgun 

[IceHawk]

Slow pockets of birds but the amount of rain we had definitely played a huge part in success. Did shoot and see more Timberdoodles aka woodcock this year than in years past . A great sign   The leaves stayed on longer than normal because of the moisture so made shooting conditons tougher. I own a 40 up Near Pine river and the bird numbers where definitely down there. 

[tacklejunkie]

18 hours ago, IceHawk said:

Slow pockets of birds but the amount of rain we had definitely played a huge part in success. Did shoot and see more Timberdoodles aka woodcock this year than in years past . A great sign   The leaves stayed on longer than normal because of the moisture so made shooting conditons tougher. I own a 40 up Near Pine river and the bird numbers where definitely down there. 

 

 I walk every day for exercise. The difference between any other season and the bird season is I’ll carry my shotgun with me. So because I go every day anyways I did see a good number of birds.

 

There was a lot of Woodcock this year. I don’t shoot them because they are kind of small and when I was younger I shot one and cooked it and did not care for the taste

[tacklejunkie]

 Sounds like they’re drumming pretty hot and heavy 

 

I can actually see one in my woods from outside my kitchen window sitting on his log