Grouse hunter Austin Fisher walks up behind Bogie on point during the 2023 Minnesota ruffed grouse hunting season. Hunters, guides and biologists agree it was the best season in years, maybe decades.

The dogs do most of the work, picking up and following a fresh scent to its source. Like many prey species, grouse may react to a perceived predator either by freezing of fleeing.

The assistant area wildlife manager in Two Harbors, Minn., Bailey Petersen, 37, started hunting after being hired by the DNR in 2009. Now she and her husband, AJ, own four hunting dogs, three ...

“I can’t tell you how many grouse this dog has brought me over the last decade or more,” Amman said, taking the bird from Sigg. “But you never know when it might be the last one.” Sigg ...

Which is to say, he knows where to find grouse and woodcock. Pollard owns no hunting dogs, but Searle and Lee are happy to share. Now, with Boozer and Scout on point, Pollard and Lee move in to flush ...

They’re locations in northern Maine, a state renowned for its upland bird hunting – meaning woodcock and ruffed grouse. Interestingly, while 94% of Maine is privately owned, much of it – 11. ...

Grouse, on the other hand, run, flush wild well out of range, act like they’re landing when they’re not, and otherwise mess with one’s head.

Minnesota is, after all, the nation's No. 1 destination for ruffed grouse and ruffed grouse hunting. The state has more public forest land than other states, and better grouse habitat.

Sports Outdoors To the woods: Washington’s forest grouse season opens Sunday Sept. 13, 2024 Updated Fri., Sept. 13, 2024 at 6:25 p.m. A dusky grouse sits on a log in the Selkirk Mountains of ...

Like many prey species, grouse may react to a perceived predator either by freezing of fleeing. When it works, the dogs hold the birds on point until the hunters are in position and ready.