2018 Upland birds, post your picks!

dilly said:
The young boy taking a break.
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What drilling is that?
 
Yesterday morning, a quick hunt for pheasant in SE Sask before the long drive home. A bird, a 16 ga. and a Pudelpointer. All i need.
 

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This morning's walkabout, I always seem to bring the wrong gun. Nonetheless a wickedly fierce grouse down with head shot from Sauer 202 in 300 Weatherby. He is already in my tummy and was very yummy :)

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Rob F said:
It is illegal to hunt grouse with a centerfire rifle in Manitoba.
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I assume that this comment was not a general public service advisory about Manitoba hunting regulations and was rather directed at me. You will be happy to know the grouse was not shot in Manitoba and no laws were broken.
 
Have managed to get one or two the last while, dropped one today as it and two companions flushed. Since the snow has started to stick on the logging roads they seem to be sticking to the steep timber, the days that it warms up and is sunny is when I’ve been getting the drop on them but the season is almost over around here. I’m going to be sad when nov is over...
 
Grouse population around our area is way down this year. Between mid-September to mid November I had seen and heard 1 Grouse and that was during deer hunt. Our neighbour, who lives at his camp year round, had only seen about 3 grouse by this point. He did say that there was quite a few Fishers in the area and if so, that is most likely having a negative effect on the population.
 
Season closes tomorrow hope to get out in the late morning and see if I can get the jump on some, things have warmed up some and I’m going to check an area in a lower elevation. Got two this evening just before last light, photo isn’t the best as it was dark but you get the picture lol.
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Nova Scotia pheasant season ended on Saturday. Having lost permission on a few important covers this year, but gained only one new one, I pressured my remaining spots that much harder and the last few weeks have seen me hunting very well educated roosters who were, frankly tired of my bull####! At one spot in particular I am quite convinced that I could not so much as firmly close my shot gun action without sending them scurrying down the ditches to the river where they would flutter across just over the water and sneak off into safety. By the last week I had disabled the ‘beep’ when I lock my car, discarded my whistle entirely and was working each spot surgically and methodically into the wind. We were getting birds, but usually only one and we worked goddam hard for them! So I was pleasantly surprised mid-week when I stumbled on a covey of relatively naive young of year roosters, and was very pleased to shoot about the loveliest double I could hope for.
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Saturday, the last day of the season, that spot was hunted by others, so we went to another spot that we haven’t hunted that hard due to frequent flooding and an unfortunately timed spreading of manure. We managed 8 hen flushes, but no roosters. Still, after a great season over Pearl in the prime of her fourth year, it was not a chore to seek solace with a piece of farm country diner pie and coffee.
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Now on to a couple of grouse (not our forte!) and some late season ducks if we can find ‘em and get at ‘em safely. Then starts the countdown to October 1 2019 when we start it all again. In the meantime I will be visiting the land registry to chase down a few leads on landowners who I hope to be able to convince to tolerate my silly chasing around a few birds while they work at making a living from their land.

Dave
 
Who cares anyway? He was obviously deer hunting, and the bird is just as dead.
These rules are to keep you from carrying a centrefire rifle in the woods when you don't gave a deer tag, not to keep you from overkilling grouse.

Rob F said:
It is illegal to hunt grouse with a centerfire rifle in Manitoba.
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