Headed out in a couple weekends for my first try at some blues! If it's anything like my other "first try's", I won't even see any until next year
Just tell yourself you are looking for Elk and Moose and all of the sudden Grouse appear!!!
We went up Thursday morning and limited out in less than 2 hours. It was a hot one even at 8800 ft. Louie found a ton of birds and did a great job for his first hunt ever! I needed a bit of a warm up on my shots but got into the groove of things after a few missed shots. Pretty exciting to see 6 or 7 birds bust every time I went to flush. I think I'd say I saw somewhere in the 20-30s bird count which I don't think is bad for a little under 2 hours of hunting.
Nice work primalphil! Hunted mountain sharptail for the first time and had a fun weekend. Bagged a few blues too which were bonus birds. Rained day and night on us though with brief clearings between storms.
Early season u can find them together foothills are wear the blue grouse brood not in mtn alpines most hunt way to high early season...