Yoteassasin
Lil-Rokslider
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I was scouting for deer during bow season in NorCal and ended up with a few grouse on my arrows . Does any one reliably get these guys or is it normally a spontaneous bag ?
I understand why people call them spruce chickens or tundra chickens, but I can't imagine anyone to have ever tasted one to think it tastes like chicken. It's red meat.I don't know how it works in California. But the short answer is no. Yes, you'll get lucky and see them along a two track and, yes, they might not pay someone in a vehicle much mind. But grouse are elusive birds. They taste like chicken...to everything. The stupid ones don't live long.
Umm the ones here are exactly like chicken (sootys duskys , ruffed) all white meat even the legsI understand why people call them spruce chickens or tundra chickens, but I can't imagine anyone to have ever tasted one to think it tastes like chicken. It's red meat.
Rock and Willow Ptarmigan breast look like a fillet of deer backstrap. They rather taste like it to.Umm the ones here are exactly like chicken (sootys duskys , ruffed) all white meat even the legs
It's possible we have different ideas of what a ruffed grouse is. Mine would be the actual ruffed grouse. Not spruce hens or ptarmigan.I understand why people call them spruce chickens or tundra chickens, but I can't imagine anyone to have ever tasted one to think it tastes like chicken. It's red meat.
Here in Minnesota there are Spruce Grouse and Ruffed Grouse, Spruce grouse have darker meat and Ruffed have lighter meat.I understand why people call them spruce chickens or tundra chickens, but I can't imagine anyone to have ever tasted one to think it tastes like chicken. It's red meat.
Ruffed grouse home ranges are small when they get one. But they will certainly travel further than a quarter mile to find one after they disperse from their mother's territory.You learn the area's and what they like and depending on the year they arent hard to find.
Read somewhere that they dont normally go more than 1/4 mile from where they hatched. I dunno how true that is. But I sure seem to kick em up in the same area over an over
No they aren't hard to find when you know where to look. But you will find them flying away at a very rapid rate through the timber when you find them. Not posing for a bow shot. Getting them to flush without a dog is also an acquired skill.
Alaska ruffed grouse are white meat too. No clue what z987k is talking about.Here in Minnesota there are Spruce Grouse and Ruffed Grouse, Spruce grouse have darker meat and Ruffed have lighter meat.
Them days are going away fast. At least in the Southern Appalachian mountainsI’ve hunted Africa and hunted and fished over much of Canada and the US. But my very best days afield, the most perfect days, were chasing ruffed grouse on the Appalachian ridge the third week of October when the leaves are at peak color.
I’m kinda surprised to read this. My ruffed grouse hunting was always in western Pennsylvania so I really don’t follow any discussions out of that regionThem days are going away fast. At least in the Southern Appalachian mountains
Habitat loss. My guess is bad to worse. I was never able to put many up in southern Ohio and that was almost 10 years ago.I’m kinda surprised to read this. My ruffed grouse hunting was always in western Pennsylvania so I really don’t follow any discussions out of that region
Any sense as to why or how bad the decline is