Most challenging game in Ontario

[Lor79]

Definitely evil southern grouse for me too!!
Lorenzo

[Species8472]

Results so far:

Wolf/Coyote - 9
Southern Grouse - 5
Snowshoe Hare (no dog) - 1
Greater Snow Goose - 1

For myself I would say early season (first 2 weeks) mature whitetail buck with the bow. In 30 years of deer hunting I have filled my tag(s) every season except one, but I have never taken a mature buck in the early season. They don't have the hormones driving them and there is still plenty of food around. Any mature bucks I have taken where either during the rut/pre-rut or the late season bow (last 2 weeks of December) when food was scarce.

[sawbill]

Wing shooting spruce grouse. Gotta hit them before they land in the next branch above your head.

[cuulguy]

I vote for grouse

[tracker]

Last day of the season for our group I was pushing a yote track and found this southern grouse. We knew this bush had only one grouse there until the yote got him. So my vote is yotes are harder to hunt.

[MikePal]

The trick to hunting grouse is to go out and hunt something else; Set up for Turkey and they will walk right in front of your blind....in the stand for Deer...who shows up, sounding like a hippo coming thru the bush..

The worst is when your walking out at dawn to your stand/blind and they wait till your 3' away then take off with great flourish and send your heart in to fibrillation.

See far more grouse while out hunting than I ever see yotes....

[zoli 16ga.]

Southern, Southern Ontario grouse....without a dog. Hunted one for five flushes, until I finally connected on the last flush. A few 'hail mary's ' on another one I flushed 29 times in ten hunts (I got good at tracking second and third flushes), but never connected. Sorry I let that one contribute to the gene pool!

[bigtedd]

Ill give it to southern grouse 1st, then coyotes 2nd.

Also worth mentioning is the mature whitetail buck over 3.5 YO

[ninepointer]

ESG's get my vote too. Heard many flushes last fall, saw a few, and even got to the gun to my shoulder once.

[Species8472]

Seems evil southern grouse are coming on strong:

Current standings:

Evil Southern Grouse - 10
Coyote/Wolf - 10
Snowshoe Hare (no dog) - 1
Greater Snow Goose - 1
Mature Whitetail Buck - 1