Any of you yoopers know where they are in there 10 year cycle. Myself and some troll buddies are thinking of making a grouse trip around Bergland area mid October.

All I could hear this spring was drumming from all directions. Ran across mother grouse and 10+ tennis ball size guys that sure were funny watch them fly, then she called them all back together 5 minutes later. Up=swing going on here

Well that's encouraging, thanks much.

I need Grouse skins 25 each for good males 20 females PM if you get some or have some
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skun down the breast or back, with wings and legs?

Almost enough to make a guy wanna cry................

It's our state bird and is functionally extinct here, where, once (20-30 years ago), they were EVERYWHERE.

Plenty of turkeys though I bet? Happy trapping! ScottW

That seems to be a thing, high turkey population low grouse population.

Our grouse cycle is zero one year to zero the next. They disappeared about the same time turkeys came on. You guys that still have them, enjoy.

we have seen plenty the last few years , and its spelled Yooper lol

Seen one this year when pulling some traps. Was happy to see it. An seen another around first of spring. First ones I’ve seen in probably 15-20 yr. Hope they can make a come back.

Hope ya get your limit!

I don’t think the numbers are as high as years ago. We have more predators nowadays. I haven’t shot one in several years, I just let them go.

Turkeys are holding their own here locally. Not the same story in a lot of places...............both in PA and nation wide. But back in the heyday of grouse hunting here, there were also turkeys. Our game commission blames it on West Nile virus. I'm not a scientist/wildlife biologist............so I don't know. Not sure why the virus would decimate one gallinaceous bird and not another. I do know that the avian predators that kill grouse are NOT in short supply.

Happy trapping is coming. Hoping to be retired when season opens. So it'll be the first time in YEARS that I'll be able to go all in on it. My goal is to eradicate every last nest predator and a good chunk of the foxes and coyotes along the way.

lol, fixed it ....

Plenty in the area of the Northern Lower I frequent.

appreciate that but if I get below the bridge then I might as well go spend time with the family. The plan is the west end of the U.P, Escanaba would be as far east that we're talking.

Turkeys eat EGGS and young grouse
PS. ----- pheasant too
just breast out

Hope your trend is up. The projections for northern WI are down and that could be caused by two aspects; the the downside of the trend and a cool, damp spring that lowers clutching success.

Bryce