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Nice cool morning so I said "heck" with the work. Took a walk on the South quarter, hadn't checked things out at that piece for a while. No more get started and a turkey hen with some pheasant size chicks squawk like crazy flying up into the oaks. Pups love it, of course.
Little farther on the 2 labs are off to my right enjoying all the water that's in the low ground, lots of rain up here this Summer. :)
Woody my Britt just two years old is to my left couple hundred feet, He is on point! little stub of a tail going a hundred miles an hour (at least) :eek:
I'm walking over, Woody is fired up! Something is in the Tag Alders. :confused:
As I walk into the area 8 or so half grown Ruffs take off.
That kind of stuff makes my day. :cheers:
 
I wish I lived where there were ruffed grouse! I loved all the Burton Spiller, and George Evans stories. If I grew up hunting them I probably would be one of the old high booted, woolen coated, double gun, ( side x side) shooters, with secret coverts, and disdain on anybody who shoots anything but the "king of game birds". Maybe it's not to late!
 
Yeah that's enough to light up an uplander's world. Sounds like a nice day. How far are you from the "pheasant line" up there?
 
1pheas4 said:
Yeah that's enough to light up an uplander's world. Sounds like a nice day. How far are you from the "pheasant line" up there?
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Nick, If you look at a MN Map follow US 10 from Morehead to Little Falls from there State Road 25 East. South of that would be considered Pheasant range. With some exceptions of course. I'm 50 miles to the North. Considered the "snow Belt" comes early stays late.
We have had a series of record cold record precipe the past few years. I saw a rooster a couple miles from my place in May the only one.
When there were dairy farms in the 60's and 70's with that sort of farming we had good pheasant hunting and also good Prairie Chicken populations.
 
oldandnew said:
I wish I lived where there were ruffed grouse! I loved all the Burton Spiller, and George Evans stories. If I grew up hunting them I probably would be one of the old high booted, woolen coated, double gun, ( side x side) shooters, with secret coverts, and disdain on anybody who shoots anything but the "king of game birds". Maybe it's not to late!
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Just a short ways from me there is a lot of public land, state and federal. Much of it is in prime Ruff habitat. Selective logging especially on our state lands. Aspen by far the species of interest for the harvest but here is a large variety of hardwoods and pine.

At the peak of the Fall colors (early Oct) a frosty morning, walking an overgrown logging road with the scatter gun and a pup may very well be as close to heaven as you can get on Earth. No sir, not to late. :thumbsup:
 
mnmthunting said:
At the peak of the Fall colors (early Oct) a frosty morning, walking an overgrown logging road with the scatter gun and a pup may very well be as close to heaven as you can get on Earth. No sir, not to late. :thumbsup:
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I have to agree with that;). There's been a few moments I've been stopped dead in my tracks by such beauty/moments. Add in that sweet smell of fall that radiates from the damp leaf-covered ground and yes, you would think you're died and gone heaven.:)
 
oldandnew said:
I wish I lived where there were ruffed grouse! I loved all the Burton Spiller, and George Evans stories. If I grew up hunting them I probably would be one of the old high booted, woolen coated, double gun, ( side x side) shooters, with secret coverts, and disdain on anybody who shoots anything but the "king of game birds". Maybe it's not to late!
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Yup.

And with a pipe, and a truck tailgate with steaming mugs of coffee for end-of-hunt rehashing the day.
 
How do you guys do it?
I mean you guys South and East.
We are at 95 degrees. We have the option to hydrate or dehydrate. :confused: Drink it or breath it. For instance I'm hydrating with a ice cold one and sweating. DANG! hard to keep up. :)
It's hot and sticky in other words, :confused:
 
thats how you know your way up north grouse are called partridge lol

with 3 species of grouse living in the very far north woods mn i always wondered if the locals knew what species they saw... u ask them they just say they are partridge idk??? in my experience partridge is north woods for ruffed grouse... grouse in most areas with sharpys are sharptails and nobody sees spruce grouse so its a safe bet they were not seen lol throw prairie chickens in the mix and people dont know what they seen...

wayne knows i trust him im more excited about them turkeys making a living up north... mn will always be ruffed grouse king... not lacking spruce or prairie grouse either...

thanks for shareing wayne... its a humid sticky 1 for sure we had more humidity then the brazilian amazon today in mn thats saying something!!!
 
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