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By the Numbers
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.
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Tags: grouse hunting, woodcock hunting, fun stuff, New Hampshire, Vermont

Grouse hunting in northern Vermont
Final Week
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.
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Tags: grouse hunting, ruffed grouse, New Hampshire, Vermont, Tall Timber Lodge

Ruffed grouse hunting in Vermont
Snow Days
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.
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Tags: grouse hunting, ruffed grouse, NH, Vermont, Tall Timber Lodge

Grouse hunting in Vermont
Vermont Grouse Hunting Update: 10/31
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 ...
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Tags: ruffed grouse, grouse hunting, Vermont, Bode, Tall Timber Lodge

Grouse hunting in northern Vermont
NH / VT Upland Bird Hunting Update: 10/26
Filed in: 2020 Upland Bird Hunting | Rosie | Monty | Bode written by: bs
Fall is when I feel the most alive, and I'm sure I'm not the only person that feels this way. Don't get me wrong, there are parts of the other seasons that I like as well - the rebirth of the north woods in the springtime, casting dries to rising fish on a warm summer night, and even the stillness of winter can be appealing as well. For me, they all pale in comparison to fall - the grouse woods are strikingly beautiful, as their secrets are revealed as the leaves drop.
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Tags: grouse hunting, woodcock hunting, NH, Vermont, Tall Timber Lodge

Ruffed grouse hunting in NH
Predictions
Filed in: 2020 Upland Bird Hunting written by: bs
Making predictions isn't generally my thing. I'm bound to be wrong, eating my words just a couple of weeks in to the season. This can be for a number of factors. Perhaps I just wasn't right about what I thought the grouse and woodcock hunting seasons would be, or a sudden change in the weather makes conditions more favorable (or worse) than what was originally thought. That's why I don't like to make predictions when it comes to the season for hunting ruffed grouse and woodcock.
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Tags: fun stuff, ruffed grouse, woodcock, Vermont, NH

Grouse hunting in northern NH
September Scouting
Filed in: 2020 Bird Dog Training | Rosie | Bode written by: bs
The season is now less than a month away (actually, it's 24 days away, but who's counting?) and we are starting to hit the woods with a bit more regularity these days. We're trying to sharpen the dogs for the rigors that lie ahead, improve my own "grouse woods" conditioning, scout out new areas for this season, and just get back in the swing of things generally.
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Tags: grouse, grouse hunting, woodcock, Vermont, NH

Grouse hunting in NH
2019 Grouse hunting Highlights
Filed in: 2019 Upland Bird Hunting | Monty written by: bs
It's feeling more and more like autumn in northern New Hampshire lately - 56 degrees today as I write this, and a much needed change in the weather and, thankfully, no more humidity. While summers tend to be short and sweet up here, fall can be even shorter at times, and becomes a more treasured part of our memory banks on those especially beautiful days.
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Tags: grouse, grouse hunting, woodcock, NH, Vermont

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Grouse Hunting Season Stats

2024: 190.5 Hours
VT Hours: 70.0
NH Hours: 120.5
VT Birds Moved: 172
NH Birds Moved: 389
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

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