grouse hit the window?

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As I was on the phone in my small studio, looking out the window, talking to a co-worker a bird crashed into the window and broke its neck. I've never been grouse hunting, but I'm thinking this is an eastern grouse?

Are they good eating? How do I clean/prepare it?

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Thanks.
 
Yes, they're good eating. Looks like a young one.

Look up 'cleaning grouse' on youtube. Easier to see than to explain. Cool the bird immediately.
 
Yup, that's what you have a small one but a grouse. If you don't have a hunting license you might just want to leave it be. but if you want to try eating there are hundreds of options. they sure are tasty.
 
Yep... you are good... get the breast out, wrap in bacon and roast at 350.... serve with melted garlic butter.....

When done eating you will start grouse hunting..... yummmm
 
It is in the fridge, very easy. I have seen them in our woods when I'm walking around, it is cedar and mixed hardwood forest, so I generally don't see them until they are flushed and flying. .410 shotgun would be the thing? People post all the time about shooting them in the head with a .22, but I just don't spot them standing around all that much. But I've never tried to stalk them either; could be fun.
 
If they are in your area, just walk slowly and quietly thru the bush (or trail). They are easy to hear moving around, hell a bear makes less noise than grouse stomping around.
 
I've got a mossberg 500 and three chokes; I just need some small steel shot. I've got a bunch of lead target shells (7.5 maybe?) but even if those were legal (I'm not sure?), I wouldn't want to eat them.
 
Use the lead shot.... It is perfect..... any pellets that do get into the breast (few will penetrate that far) are very easily dug out....

Once you get real good at it you learn to leed them properly and tak ethem out at the wing, head....
 
I aim above the head with my 12 gauges. That way a couple of pellets hit the head and make a quick death but no lead in the meat. If they are flying it is a little trickier....
 
A bird that unexpectingly hit a window means death of a relative.
That happened to me.

Sorry.

Just my 0.02$ .

Mush
 
I built a new house in a saddle in a ridge line... I had half a dozen grouse a year fly into the house... not just the windows... but some straight into the side of the house... they all went into the oven... or in a pan.
 
ThurnYTaxis said:
It is in the fridge, very easy. I have seen them in our woods when I'm walking around, it is cedar and mixed hardwood forest, so I generally don't see them until they are flushed and flying. .410 shotgun would be the thing? People post all the time about shooting them in the head with a .22, but I just don't spot them standing around all that much. But I've never tried to stalk them either; could be fun.
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A .410 is far too light for wingshooting grouse, IMO, cripples too many birds who die slowly later. Fine for shooting them on the ground if you know your ranges, but a .22 is a better choice for that too.

Mush said:
A bird that unexpectingly hit a window means death of a relative.
That happened to me.

Sorry.

Just my 0.02$ .

Mush
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In years of plentiful numbers, there is a thing called the 'silly season' for grouse (exactly what was seen here), during which they fly around like crazy things and do violently crash into things like cars and windows. And by golly, people do regularly die around that time! Must be a correlation!

Silly season is seen as nature's way to disperse the population, last I knew. The population of grouse I mean.
 
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