08-20-2003, 03:17 PM
[cool]My most effective blue grouse hunt was on an archery hunt for deer above Salina. While breathlessly waiting for a big buck to take the next two steps from behind a tree...broadside at about sixty feet...a blue grouse flew up right in front of him and spooked him back up the trail. The grouse flew up into the tree directly overhead from my stand.
A half draw at short range and a three bladed broad head up the anal orifice insured that I had camp meat that night. Revenge tasted good.
I've probably nailed more grouse with a slingshot and steel balls or marbles than with firearms. Slingshots have been a part of my family's huning gear since I was a kid in Idaho. Works good on bunnies too. Even snuffed an aggressive coyote once, that I suspect might have been rabid.
I guess it pays to be the deadliest kid on the block. I used to be the kid no mother on the street wanted her kid to associate with. Slingshots, blowguns, throwing knives, bullwhips, pellet guns and of course bows and arrows. I don' need no steenking guns.
Good luck on the grouse. My suggestion is find anywhere with some water nearby...higher altitudes early in the hunt and then dropping as the snow flies in the high country. Water is likely to be a key factor in the current dry conditions. That area above Salina had several little springs that helped bring in the game...and the birds.
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A half draw at short range and a three bladed broad head up the anal orifice insured that I had camp meat that night. Revenge tasted good.
I've probably nailed more grouse with a slingshot and steel balls or marbles than with firearms. Slingshots have been a part of my family's huning gear since I was a kid in Idaho. Works good on bunnies too. Even snuffed an aggressive coyote once, that I suspect might have been rabid.
I guess it pays to be the deadliest kid on the block. I used to be the kid no mother on the street wanted her kid to associate with. Slingshots, blowguns, throwing knives, bullwhips, pellet guns and of course bows and arrows. I don' need no steenking guns.
Good luck on the grouse. My suggestion is find anywhere with some water nearby...higher altitudes early in the hunt and then dropping as the snow flies in the high country. Water is likely to be a key factor in the current dry conditions. That area above Salina had several little springs that helped bring in the game...and the birds.
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