GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. — We were driving into the rising sun, humming along an Itasca County back road toward a patch of young aspens Tom Engel knew about. He figured some grouse and woodcock lived there ...

SOUTH OF BALL CLUB - In the woods of the Chippewa National Forest, with the late morning sun shining through mostly leafless trees, a beam of light enveloped an English setter named Tyler that was ...

Grouse hunters are a notoriously opinionated bunch. Put more than two of them in the same room and sure as sunrise they’ll find something to disagree about. More likely, they’ll find lots to disagree ...

Minnesotans chasing a cavalcade of seasonal colors often parade at this time of year from the Twin Cities to Duluth and from there farther north along the Lake Superior shoreline. Alternatively they ...

GORDON -- Thirteen-year-old Connor Pennings advanced cautiously through the head-high alders and hazel brush, his 20-gauge shotgun at the ready. He knew that at any moment, a ruffed grouse might roar ...

NEAR BRULE, WIS. - The high-pitched tone blaring from Casper's beeper-collar told hunting guide Damian Wilmot all he needed to know. "Casper's on point," Wilmot hollered through the stand of doghair ...

GORDON, Wis. - Thirteen-year-old Connor Pennings advanced cautiously through the head-high alders and hazel brush, his 20-gauge shotgun at the ready. He knew that at any moment, a ruffed grouse might ...

Harvesting the surplus from a grouse moor with dogs makes for one of the most exciting forms of shooting, finds Adrian Dangar Surplas: the grouse shot indicate a successful breeding season We have ...