This lady's first hunting trip and grouse!

Congratulations and good for you!

Some of my best memories of my teenage years are of cruising the back roads and edges of fields with a .22 rimfire in the morning or after school and getting a limit of sharptails and ruffies.
 
Good for you EE.
They sure taste good when you wrap them in bacon and low broil them for about 45 mins too... bah, they just taste good any which way you cook them really.
 
Congratulations on the first - doesn't sound like it'll be the last. You didn't comment on whether it was wing shot or whatever, and I'm not asking you to. Just mentioned it because, if it wasn't, you have an even bigger thrill to look forward to - knocking one out of the sky! Either way, if you're anything like the rest of us, it will become a passion. I find the challenge of locating them along with just the euphoria of being in the woods in the first place is good enough. Getting birds and eating them is a bonus.

Sharptail and I are rabid grouse hunters (I was going to say "avid", but that falls waayyy short of our passion for the sport). Every year, after the season, he puts on a lavish grouse meal for our non-hunting friends. He was telling me that this year he has settled on a chicken pot pie recipe. I hadn't thought of that idea for a grouse recipe, but I can imagine it would be excellent - mainly because grouse meat is VERY lean and dries easily. Roasting a grouse in the oven like a chicken would yield a slab of leather. Baking in a pie offers moisture retention, not to mention gravy and the rest. I can't wait for Grouse Meal 2008!!! :dancingbanana:
 
straightshooter said:
Congratulations on the first - doesn't sound like it'll be the last. You didn't comment on whether it was wing shot or whatever, and I'm not asking you to. Just mentioned it because, if it wasn't, you have an even bigger thrill to look forward to - knocking one out of the sky! Either way, if you're anything like the rest of us, it will become a passion.
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I'll admit, we were flushing quite a few and either couldn't get the shot off or (I admit it) I completely missed. Found one at the end of the day that didn't want to flush, and I did a perfect head shot. I was very proud of myself, even though people sometimes think it's a cheap shot. But it's true, can't wait for the one that drops from the sky for me!

We're trying for deer this weekend. Should be interesting :)
 
Good for you Eva.
I got into hunting for the grouse, love it but too few around here now to take it serious.
Wing shooting is tough but you'll get it soon enough if you keep at it, you have to be really on the ball cause when they flush you've got about two seconds to line up and and take you're best shot, or the bird wins.:... as they usually do.:)
 
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