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TedNugent

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Just wondering if anyone knows of places to go hunting in and around the Orangeville area. Am definitely willing to travel, was thinking up near Penetanguishine(*sp) or Midland would be a good area to take a walk on back roads on crown land.
If anyone is up for a partner, I'd sure like to avoid driving up North every time I want to go. Have a friend way up north, and want to make a couple of trips up there to hunt with him, but it's an 8 hour drive, and would live to find a place within 2 or 3 hours.
Any tips on where to go would be greatly appreciated.
Aaron
 
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Secret spots close to cities will remain secrets. Always folks on the hunting forums looking for exactly where to go to find birds and it always goes unanswered. You don't need to go 8 hrs away but you do need to put in the work yourself. Good spots can get shot out pretty quickly if folks can't keep their mouth shut

Patrick
 
Got up to my Dad's camp on Manitoulin with my good friend. Went out on the quads about as far as we could go, and huffed it on a trail from there. Didn't have to go far, within 15 minutes of walking, my friend heard the beating wings of a partridge just off the trail to our right. We beat some bush for about 30 or 40 yards and it ran back towards the trail, right in between us. Then it turned and was running back between us and he shot it on the run.
Had to go back to the quads, as we weren't smart enough to bring a plastic bag with us, and we didn't have to walk nearly as far before we cut into the bush again, and within minutes, we heard another bird. It flew away from me back towards the trail, and I took a shot but missed. I saw where it flew, and it was across the trail on the other side, my friend pushed it towards me where it flew again, but I didn't get a shot off. Ran to where it flew, and my buddy pushed some more till i saw it,took a shot and got a nice clean kill using #4 shot. Really happy to finally get back to some hunting, and making new memories instead of just recalling all the cool stuff we used to do 25 years ago.
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Raton57 said:
Grouse are few and far between here in the past few years. They used to come right into the yard at one time.
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It was dark when we were heading back, saw a couple rabbits and a real brave woodcock, came out of the bush right in front of my buddy's quad and fanned it's tail - not sure if it was attracted to him or was challenging him. Big sucker too. He was leading on his quad, and saw a few more partridge on the way out too. Going to go again in the morning before the long drive home, hope to get a few more to have a meal for the wife and kids. It'll be their first wild game, looking forward to it.
 
Well Ted, it would appear you can reach an old dog new tricks ;)
Congrats on your hunt and the memories of yesteryear !
What are you shooting, does looking an 870 Wingmaster , but the orange vest is pretty dam brite :)
They sure are tasty and you need a few more for the family, but you know that already ;)
Best Regards,
Rob
 
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FLHTCUI said:
Well /ted, it would appear you can reach an old dog new tricks ;)
Congrats on your hunt and the memories of yesteryear !
What are you shooting, does looking an 870 Wingmaster , but the orange vest is pretty dam brite :)
They sure are tasty and you need a few more for the family, but you know that already ;)
Best Regards,
Rob
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Thanks,
Well I tell you, it's been great to see a smile on my old friend's face. Hard year for him, lost his brother in January last year at the age of 40, then this past January his wife screwed him over bad and he's fighting for custody of their 2 kids.
Sure nice to get his mind off things.
Ya, picked up a Wingmaster in trade last year, same friend bought one new back around 1988, and I've been envious ever since.
 
Curious, where does this partridge speak come from, and which regions use the term? I've seen it a couple times lately here and my interest is piqued. Perhaps shouldn't say where does it come from, partridge is a Eurasian bird, but rather how did grouse get the name and who here uses it? Imagine there are some interesting regional considerations dating back to European settlers. Much more recent thing out here, the term likely didn't make it as such.
 
Congrats!
Yesterday I took a drive up to Kawartha Highlands to do some scouting and fishing and flushed two grouse... The first one scared the crap out of us because we were deep in conversation and it flushed from about 1 meter to our right. lol.




TedNugent said:
It was dark when we were heading back, saw a couple rabbits and a real brave woodcock, came out of the bush right in front of my buddy's quad and fanned it's tail - not sure if it was attracted to him or was challenging him. Big sucker too. He was leading on his quad, and saw a few more partridge on the way out too. Going to go again in the morning before the long drive home, hope to get a few more to have a meal for the wife and kids. It'll be their first wild game, looking forward to it.
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TedNugent said:
Got up to my Dad's camp on Manitoulin with my good friend. Went out on the quads about as far as we could go, and huffed it on a trail from there. Didn't have to go far, within 15 minutes of walking, my friend heard the beating wings of a partridge just off the trail to our right. We beat some bush for about 30 or 40 yards and it ran back towards the trail, right in between us. Then it turned and was running back between us and he shot it on the run.
Had to go back to the quads, as we weren't smart enough to bring a plastic bag with us, and we didn't have to walk nearly as far before we cut into the bush again, and within minutes, we heard another bird. It flew away from me back towards the trail, and I took a shot but missed. I saw where it flew, and it was across the trail on the other side, my friend pushed it towards me where it flew again, but I didn't get a shot off. Ran to where it flew, and my buddy pushed some more till i saw it,took a shot and got a nice clean kill using #4 shot. Really happy to finally get back to some hunting, and making new memories instead of just recalling all the cool stuff we used to do 25 years ago.
Here's a pic:
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Hey wow! I didn't think there were any on Manitoulin. I hunt around Wahnapitae & the wife has a camp in Sultan. It's pretty far but we got a ton of birds this year so far. I'm using my 870 with #4, she's using the Super-90! Way to go!

Cannon
 
Jonny_Cannon said:
Hey wow! I didn't think there were any on Manitoulin.
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We shot 15 upland birds on Manitoulin Island on Thanksgiving weekend hunting a couple hours on two mornings... I say "upland birds" because it was a mixed bag of ruffed grouse, sharptail grouse and pheasant. There are lots of grouse on the island.
 
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Curious, where does this partridge speak come from, and which regions use the term? I've seen it a couple times lately here and my interest is piqued. Perhaps shouldn't say where does it come from, partridge is a Eurasian bird, but rather how did grouse get the name and who here uses it? Imagine there are some interesting regional considerations dating back to European settlers. Much more recent thing out here, the term likely didn't make it as such.
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Ardent....

The use of the slang term "partridge" when referring to grouse is a well established and entrenched misnomer in NorOnt dating back before my time. I grew up referring to grouse as partridge... and to this day most of the hunters I know would say; "I'm going partridge hunting this weekend." I corrected my vocabulary many years ago, but still have people ask me what I mean when I say "Grouse." I don't know where the incorrect term originated from, whether a carry over from European Hungarian partridge hunters or some other source, but it is well established in local vocabulary... even still, it makes me flinch when I see it used in written form.
 
Along the same lines as Hoyt. I rarely heard anyone reference the term Grouse living in Northern Ontario and living with family who grew up in the north. They always referred to them as partridge. My Grandparents were born and raised in New Brunswick before moving to Ontario during the war years (WW2) and I am assuming they grew up using the term partridge as its all they ever called them also. When my Grandparents retired to Vancouver Island I was out hunting one time with my Grandfather when we met a fellow hunter who was hunting with some kind of a real nice looking setter breed for Grouse. He told my Grandfather the dog had flushed a few singles but had not yet put up a covey. Well I don't know what cord that struck in my Grandfather but to this day I can still hear him mocking the fellow by saying in his best fake English accent " a covey of Grouse" then chuckling softly to himself. I guess something about the term covey of Grouse provided my Grandfather with some humour. It still makes me laugh whenever I think of that day. Partridge are not only good eating they provide great memories of days afield. Lol
 
Yep - glad to see I've got back-up for my Super-90 thread from a few days ago. My in-laws are all northern French. Everything is partridge. Or "Parr-treesh" depending on who's talking, As for me - I'm working on it. Anglais Cochon and all...

I'm really glad to know there's a ton of birds on the island. I've got family there, and want to retire there when that day comes. Sultan and Chapleau are a bit too far for me.

Cannon
 
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