Went north for some ruffies on sat morning, booked a tiny economical cabin with a little kitchenette and a bbq , dropped off our things and headed to the logging roads with our mt bikes and hunting stuff. After hours of not seeing a grouse we headed to our cabin and had dinner and a campfire and decided to try the same area in the early morning. By 11am we went back to make some burgers without a bird and pulled out the backroads mapbook and came up with a plan to check a couple new spots.
Made it to the new spot at 1pm and saw a grouse right away but it gave me the slip as I was getting loaded up. Started walking the trail and heard some leaves shuffling looked at the boy and he said I heard that too, I found an opening in the thick bush and looked in saw a grouse and the 12ga mossy went bang and the boy said "did you get him" I replied "yes" for the 1st time. Walked into the bush to grab him and heard another noise and the 2nd grouse was down. dropped those 2 at the car and went the other way on the trail and saw 3 grouse on the trail caught up with 1 and we now had 3. went to drop that 1 off at the car and said to the boy we will shoot the 4th on the way to the car then try the pellet gun to get the 5th, well number 4 and 5 fell to the shotty on the way back and we were done after an hour and 20 mins.
here's a happy kid, he held the birds with gloves and even helped me pull on the legs to get the breasts, we took the legs also. made some tacos for tues night dinner.
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