Video of my first grouse

Great video!

Thanks for taking us along.

great video thanks

Don't worry about getting the shot, we enjoy the videos. Thanks

Awesome job. I like how you used the sausage for the grease. I have always wanted to try grouse but i barely ever see them. They usually scare the "poop" out of me when i spook them and they fly away.

I made a homemade mount for a camcorder to mount on my scope so i can make a video. Even with that it is hard to get a shot off. By the time you get it on and zoomed the critter is gone. So no worries. Keep the videos coming.

Quail used to scare the hell out of me. I've stepped within six feet of a covey before they took of instantly. I got over it later when I worked at a "hunting plantation" where wealthy people came to shoot fish in a barrel. We kept the quail and pheasant in long buildings so they could fly inside. To put them in burlap sacks for transport to the field you would walk them slowly down one side of the room with your arms outstretched and being sure not to spook them, turn them at the end wall and come down the other side until you reached a 6x6 chicken wire room. Once they go in you shut the door behind and start grabbing them out of the quail tornado of birds and poop dust. People would buy 50 or 100 birds for a shoot. We put 5 per bag, took them to the field and spun the bag hard like a bolas for about 20 seconds before dumping them out under different bushes. This made the birds stay put for at least a half hour for the dogs to come and point.

Pheasant shoots were pathetic. The pheasants were hauled up into a high tower with eight foot plywood walls at the top and we would chuck them one a time over the wall like footballs while as many as twenty men shot at them with 12ga shotguns... Usually all at once. At least 1/3 of the birds kept flying out of sight.

I've actually been to pheasant preserves before. I never went to one that did the tower shoots though, those were pretty out there for me. My theory on going was that the few spots that I could hunt where there were actually pheasants at didn't hold many. Some friends and I decided instead of taking out the wild population we would just do the preserve instead. One good thing was there are a lot of bad shots that go to those places so there are quite a few that actually make it into the wild. I'm not big on canned hunts but in the right circumstances I'm ok with them. We'd save the wild ones and takes ones that were raised to be shot. I've since lost my spots to hunt wild pheasant but hopefully those that hunt it now let them go and continue to grow the population.

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Pheasants and chickens cross breed if left to it, the owners farm had lots of them running loose. That place had lots of red tail hawks around, fox and bobcat too.

Fantastic video, much enjoyed watching! 

great vid.. I've shot many grouse and just wanted to offer a little helpful hint about breasting them out. not sure if you already know or not but just figured i'd let you know anyway. if you take the bird and grab the feet and place you feet on the wings tight to the birds body and pull... the breast basically falls right out without any cutting at all then just cut the wind off and your done. just a little fyi.. a lot of the time i'll do it in the field before heading home takes literally 10 seconds...

You pull the breast off with the bird's legs? I can't picture how this works.

Got it, thanks.

Great hunt! Thanks for sharing. Nothing like cooking and eating your own catch.