My List of Excuses
Over my years of grouse hunting, I have garnered an appreciation for all of the many ways that grouse have eluded me, sometimes as a result of their cunning, but mostly because of my ineptitude.
The list of reasons is long, and undoubtedly there are some that I am forgetting, but the last one is probably the real reason.
The list of reasons is long, and undoubtedly there are some that I am forgetting, but the last one is probably the real reason.
- It's too warm
- The sun was in my eyes
- It's too cold
- There's not enough wind
- It's too breezy
- The birds are running
- I almost stepped on that grouse
- I slipped on an old log
- That tree got in the way
- The cover was so tight that I couldn't swing my gun
- I rushed my shot
- I didn't hear that one flush
- The leaves are too crunchy
- Too much foliage
- Not enough foliage - they're seeing us from a great distance and getting out
- My reflexes are getting slower as I grow older …
