Ruffed grouse hunting grew up in 19th century New England, ... If you want to quickly clean your grouse in the field and keep on hunting, here’s a trick: Lay the bird on the ground breast-up.

Ahead of bird hunting permit applications opening, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources shared important information ...

When grouse hunting’s urtext, New England Grouse Shooting, was published in 1942, author William Harnden Foster felt that only two breeds merited consideration: the pointer and the English setter.

The ruffed grouse was the king of Maine game birds until the re-introduction of wild turkeys. However, it’s still immensely popular with everyone from wax-coated Filson-jacketed upland ...

It's easiest to find them near water, early in the morning. We saw our first bunch of sage grouse just after 7 a.m., picking their way across the gravel road near a culvert. Seeing us and startled ...

And so goes upland bird hunting in the traditional pointing dog style, where only birds flushed from under a solid point are considered fair game. If there's no shot, so be it.

No. 8 shot works great on woodcock, but No. 7 or 71/2 is better suited for the larger-bodied grouse. Sometimes the bird that flushes isn’t the bird that was expected to flush, so consider using ...

A soulmate in this regard, the late writer and artist George Bird Evans of West Virginia, was for many years a sort-of philosophical guru for ruffed grouse hunters, and hunting.

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 is no question that the ruffed grouse, Pennsylvania’s state bird since 1931, is the most challenging upland game bird to hunt. In 2007, it was estimated that close to 100,000 hunters ...

The Sharp-tailed Grouse Advisory Committee has recommended the DNR resume a hunting season for the species this fall. If ...

The Sharp-tailed Grouse Advisory Committee has recommended the DNR resume a hunting season for the species this fall. If approved, it would be the first such season since 2018.