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Business As Usual

08/21/2021 Filed in: 2021 Bird Dog Training | Monty written by: bs

A simple grouse feather - it's what we'll be after in another month or so, or rather, piles of feathers. At this time of year, it's a reminder of what we're preparing for, and an indicator that perhaps we are indeed in an area where grouse habituate.

Hello Again

07/14/2021 Filed in: 2021 Grouse Hunting written by: bs

"How will this season compare to last year?" is the question I seem to get the most these days, and while I cannot give too much information yet (we will start scouting new coverts in August), I can make a prediction or two as to where we might be headed. The grouse in the picture above was strutting its stuff this week, undoubtedly in anticipation of the upcoming season ...

That's a Wrap!

12/31/2020 Filed in: 2020 Upland Bird Hunting | Monty written by: bs

Bittersweet.

Another grouse season in the books for me and my spotted gang, and one inevitably wonders how many more there might be ahead. Thankfully, the legs are still there, and the back and heart most days, but this grouse hunting is really a young man's game, and I am the ripe old age of 51 ...

In Conclusion?

12/05/2020 Filed in: 2020 Upland Bird Hunting | Bode | Rosie written by: bs

If this week marked the final excursions in to the grouse woods for me and my pack, it was a fitting conclusion to our season in the strangest fall ever. During the time of COVID, bird dogs, grouse and most importantly the woods themselves became even more of a refuge than normal, and the grouse woods were calling us back again for more exploration.

By the Numbers

11/17/2020 Filed in: 2020 Upland Bird Hunting | Rosie | Bode | Monty written by: bs

Now there's some time to sit down and analyze the recently passed grouse guiding season. Frequent readers of the blog know that I keep a "tote board" of each grouse season (except the first season that I guided, in 2008), but this year I want to put some context with the numbers that we have collected during our five-week guiding season.

Final Week

11/11/2020 Filed in: 2020 Upland Bird Hunting written by: bs

I don't think I've ever seen such changes in weather, literally in a matter of a few days, for hunting grouse here in northern New Hampshire and Vermont. My last post detailed how we had just begun dealing with 4-5" of snow in the New Hampshire uplands, slogging it out through some pretty challenging spruce cover, but conditions would quickly change yet again.

Snow Days

11/03/2020 Filed in: 2020 Upland Bird Hunting | Bode | Rosie written by: bs

Old Man Winter has reared his ugly head again during our grouse season. It all started yesterday morning, as my client and I had to endure moderately falling and blowing snow as we first followed Bode, and then Chris's Weimaraner Monty, up and down a hillside in Vermont.

Vermont Grouse Hunting Update: 10/31

10/31/2020 Filed in: 2020 Upland Bird Hunting | Bode written by: bs

That's Bode, with a hard earned Vermont ruffed grouse that we took today. Lots of miles, quite a few birds flushed, a couple of errant shots, and finally this one fell on the second shot from my 28 gauge. How has the hunting been in our limited explorations of some of our Vermont coverts?

Let's get to it ...

2024: 193.0 Hours VT Hours: 70.0 NH Hours: 123.0 VT Birds Moved: 172 NH Birds Moved: 390 Birds Taken: 24 Grouse (VT - 7, NH - 17) 41 Woodcock (VT - 12, NH - 29)	2023: 222.5 Hours VT Hours: 65.5 NH Hours: 157.0 VT Birds Moved: 143 NH Birds Moved: 430 Birds Taken: 14 Grouse (VT - 4, NH - 10) 43 Woodcock (VT - 7, NH - 36)	2022: 123.0 Hours VT Hours: 49.5 NH Hours: 73.5 VT Birds Moved: 96 NH Birds Moved: 178 Birds Taken: 11 Grouse (VT - 5, NH - 6) 6 Woodcock (VT - 2, NH - 4)
2021: 193.5 Hours VT Hours: 66.0 NH Hours: 127.5 VT Birds Moved: 226 NH Birds Moved: 427 Birds Taken: 36 Grouse 21 Woodcock	2020: 199.5 Hours VT Hours: 36.0 NH Hours: 163.5 VT Birds Moved: 77 NH Birds Moved: 552 Birds Taken: 24 Grouse 21 Woodcock	2019: 184.5 Hours VT Hours: 28.0 NH Hours: 156.5 VT Birds Moved: 65 NH Birds Moved: 509 Birds Taken: 14 Grouse 29 Woodcock
2018: 144.0 Hours VT Hours: 32.0 NH Hours: 112.0 VT Birds Moved: 114 NH Birds Moved: 417 Birds Taken: 18 Grouse 12 Woodcock	2017: 180.5 Hours VT Hours: 44 NH Hours: 136.5 VT Birds moved: 110 NH Birds moved: 407 Birds Taken: 23 Grouse 24 Woodcock	2016: 178 Hours Birds moved: 563 Birds/Hr Avg.: 3.16 Birds Taken: 23 Grouse 30 Woodcock
2015: 202.0 Hours Birds moved: 607 Birds/Hr Avg.: 3.0 Birds Taken: 18 grouse 26 woodcock	2014: 138.0 hours Birds moved: 350 Birds/hr. Avg.: 2.53 Birds Taken: 17 grouse 17 woodcock	2013: 152 Hours Birds moved: 480 Birds/hr. Avg.: 3.15 Birds Taken: 20 grouse 27 woodcock
2012: 114 Hours Birds moved: 526 Birds /Hr Avg.: 4.61 Birds Taken: 22 grouse 4 woodcock	2011: 161 Hours Birds moved: 522 Birds / Hr Avg.: 3.24 Birds Taken: 34 grouse 21 woodcock	2010: 139.5 Hours Birds moved: 430 Birds / Hr Avg.: 3.08 Birds Taken: 26 grouse 21 woodcock
2009: 93.5 Hours Birds moved: 307 Birds / Hr Avg.: 3.28 Birds Taken: 16 grouse 14 woodcock	2008: 82.5 Hours Birds moved: 188 Birds / Hr Avg.: 2.27 Birds Taken: 10 grouse 5 woodcock

FROST FIRE GUIDE SERVICE

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Frost Fire's Grouse Hunting
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Business As Usual

Hello Again

That's a Wrap!

In Conclusion?

By the Numbers

Final Week

Snow Days

Vermont Grouse Hunting Update: 10/31

Grouse Hunting Season Stats

Frost Fire's Grouse Hunting"Partridge Blog"

Grouse Hunting Season Stats

Frost Fire's Grouse Hunting
"Partridge Blog"