Grouse hunting guns
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madtrapper143
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Steep Rock Lake NWO
I use a 25" barrelled Remington 11 48 in 16 bore. It came from Ilion as a 28" FULL but now it is 25" with a wide open CYL bore. 1OZ. game loads of any brand with #6 shot work perfectly. The gun is very easy to carry, super reliable with it's long recoil action and portable in the thickets. A forum member here traded me some 1 oz. Fiocchi (marked target) 7.5 @1300 fps. They hit hard too. Never seen a 16 bore load marked as target until these came along. I shoot about 3/4 of my grouse flying because my lab makes them fly. Going to try the 11 48 with some #6 steel this fall for ducks over decoys.
Darryl
Darryl
Depends on the mood, but of all the cheating sh*t the .22 gets the most work. Seeing if I can evolve from that but a clean headshot at 20-25yrds cannot be beat....
Dirk
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You lucky man! Llewellins have to be the next best breed to the Gordon jk. A friend bought a Llewellin pup about 10+/- years ago. At 5 months she honoured my Gordon's squat and waited while we got over some lousy gouthe and dispatched 3 willow partridge. We showed her the worst hit bird and she insisted on carrying it all the way to the truck. She went on to be quite famous in Branch country. If he lives long enough, I'd like to breed my Gordon male with a great Llewellin.
Time and again,shooting motionless birds on the road.?? if you are after meat, it's about twenty times cheaper in the supermarket. There would be a lot more grouse if "hunters" were allowed to get them on the wing only. 20 ga and a bird dog, things cannot be any better.
I just bought 1, well may 3 dominion arms backpackers in 12 GA.. I do alot of fall backpacking and single shot with a mod choke should be perfect.. Was playing with it at range and surprisingly does well with slugs at 50m, might have to take a deer with it next year
Londonshooter
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- SW Ontario
Nimo, ground-sluicers will never understand wing-shooters. Wing-shooters will never understand ground-sluicers.
Not so much in the eating as in the picking and cleaning. It's called the pre-oven pellet search!
Words of wisdom for sure.
the spank
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Planet Earth Wearing My Tinfoil Hat
I have done both most of my life and drawn one conclusion. Dead is dead regardless of the method. Get over yourself!
rifleman762
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Southern Alberta
I agree. Shooting them on the wing with a shotgun is bird hunting. Shooting them on the ground with a .22 is small game hunting. Same as you'd shoot a motionless rabbit or motionless tree rat. What's the big deal?
chester007
New member
- Location
- Northern sask
I used a 22lr for the longest time, but i recently purchased a 17hmr. shooting them at the farthest possible distance is good fun
- Location
- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
Exactly, like any of the "I only wing shoot my grouse" actually pass up on a bird just standing there. I always get a laugh out of that comment.
If I ever did that Maggie, my Gordon, would stare at me with that WTF look!
colonel3006
Regular
- Location
- Ayton,ontario
I'll shoot them on the ground if I get a chance or shoot them in the air if I get a chance. Ruffed grouse are my absolute favorite meal, so the thought of seeing a grouse and letting it hit the air before shooting has never crossed my mind. They're hard enough to get a shot at around here so I'm not chancing letting them go when I get lucky enough to actually see one.
