Calling ruffled grouse... can this be done?

If I'm walking down a trail that I plan to return on in an hour or two - I'll thump my shotgun stock or vest every 5 minutes or so.... anything to make a low frequency sound because those birds are curious &, not always but eventually, it pays off bigtime.
 
Best results I have is walk a trail for about 1/2 hour and then walk back on your trail for 1/2 hour or have 2nd hunter follow 1/2 hour behind. It just may be timing or a nosey bird that heard me walking.
 
AKD said:
so apparently a ruffled grouse makes this sound http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/Song/h3000ca.mp3 I cant think of any time i ever hear that noise in the woods but im more a visual memory kinda guy anyway. sounds like it could be copied. wonder if it would get a reply.

and than of course the sound we all know the drum. http://www.kwic.com/~pagodavista/ruffgrse.wav
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I hear that first noise every morning I am on a whitetail stand usually followed by the drum......never tried to mimic it tho maybe I will bring some gravel and a bag when I go out for deer this year.
 
Well, I don’t do any particular calling but I do check my berry tree in the evening close to home and have them filling up on berries. Then it’s just a matter of picking them off and having them for supper. Nothing like fresh meat...
 
I make a little poping sound with my mouth after I've flushed a group of birds and I'm getting near to where I think one has landed. Sometimes they answer, the sound I make is sorta like the call they make to each other to regroup after being scattered.
 
The best way I've found , is find some old forestry road/trail , something not considered a "road" by gov't . Make sure there is plenty of small gravel on this road, when hunting season comes , hit that road from sun up to about 3 hours after , and same at day's end around 2 hours before sundown to sun down . The darn things fly onto the paths and eat the gravel , for their gizzards. Everytime we go out we come back with our limits. middle of the day , just walk into the bush about 50 feet along the same roadways and you'll flush them as well . Never heard of anyone calling them tho. old logging roads work great , that's what we go on .
 
I herd a grouse drumming on a log a few years back, put on a stalk got within 40 yards or so and he busted me. He then run down the log to some cover and vanished .I slowly approched to within 20 yards but still couldn't see him.I then took off my hat and beat it against my leg in the same rythem he had drummed ealier in.He poped out of the cover and ran back out on the log to where I put an arrow threw him.
Responding to a "call" I doubt it.Likely just kind of one of those curious moments that gets the odd animals attention
 
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