What kind of grouse hunter are you?

[fishface5]

What kind of grouse hunter are you? A fast paced bust'em out kind, or a stalker slow quiet get on top of them type? I've been experimenting with booth, and can't decide.

[captkev]

It all depends on many differant things... where the birds are, what type of cover they are in, and that all depends on rain, snow, hot or cold, windy or calm, it changes from day to day and month to month and hour to hour. Over the past couple of years I've come to find that hunting is a great deal like fishing, or fishing is a great deal like hunting. If you keep throwing a top water bait when you should switch to a diveing bait you might not get as many bites. so if you go to slow on a day or time when the birds seem to be running, you might not get as many bites, same goes for moveing too fast, if you burn threw when the birds are sitting tight or when its calm and they can hear you coming a mile away, you will either bump them from cover or move right past them and hear them get up behind you. I say read your dog like a bottom machine, and fish for the conditions at the presant time. There is not any one method that will work 100% at any time. You just have to figure out when the best time is to speed troll or to drift.

[HawgMan]

Depends on the cover,wind,weather and mood of the dog. Somedays it's slow,and somedays we pick up the pace a little.

[EatSleepFish]

went grouse huntin 3 times this week, and have been walking too fast since all the birds I've flushed, were all too far to even see them, So far I've flushed 15 grouse and only shot 2

[setterguy]

I'm a follow the dog and wait till she finds em kind of grouse hunter. She runs hard and I get to walk slow, it works out perfectly.

[fishface5]

I have no dog, at least one that isn't afraid of the gun. So I agree it's kind of like fishing without a locator. It seems presure has a lot to do with it too. It seems they let you get pretty close untill they've been shot at once or twice. Then they get jumpy.