Grouse, there's not a better eating small game animal out there

If I had to pick, it would be snowshoe hares. I grew up hunting all small game but hunting snowshoes was the best. With or without a beagle.

Was always bobwhite quail for me, but with declining numbers, and dwindling land to hunt we're pretty much stuck here. The fact that I haven't been around a good bird dog in 20+ years doesn't help either.

Feel your pain YJ. Back in the late 50s and early 60s that’s all my grandfather hunted. Used pointer’s until he got old and then used setters. He lived at St James and when I went down there my grandmother would fry a heaping plate full and we eat till we almost got sick. Last one I shot was 2012. Still love my Squirrel hunting and at least we have timber still. Quail habitat is not getting any better and that sad thing is a little management would really help

I'll take a grouse ( excellent eats right there ) once in awhile when I'm elk hunting but other than that , I never really had any desire to purposely hunt any small game or any water foul for that matter .

I know some of you on here get jacked up on Turkey hunting ( nothing wrong with that ) but I just don't get excited when I see one of those grouse killers.

Please explain? Read studies that claimed that was a myth. Same as folks down here saying fox squirrels raid quail nest.

Rabbits.

Yep, we used mainly GSPs, but any good dog would do, even up to 30 years ago. We see quite a few around our property, just can't seem to bring myself to shoot any! Don't discount those little legs, I'd eat them by the hundreds if I could!

I have not witnessed it my self , but a friend was watching some turkeys acting odd . They were flipping something up in the air . When he walked up to where they just left , there were three young dead grouse.
Others I've talked to said they've seen the same crime.

Turkeys were reintroduced in eastern Oregon in the eighties I believe , and the grouse decline started not to long after.

When I lived in Pennsylvania, maybe that explains why I would see less grouse when the turkey population increased over the years.

A couple more pics, bunnies with a homemade elm bow and a flintlock fowler.

Grouse. Nothing like October grouse hunting in northern Maine. Maybe Ontario, never had the opportunity.

I was always to busy hunting deer both archery and rifle along with small game ,waterfowl and trapping to take up muzzleloader hunting .But I always thought it would be another fun way to spent time outdoors Thanks for the pictures

Ducks. Hunting with good friends and dogs is hard to beat. If you hammer the birds that's great, but if you don't, it's still usually a good day

Blue grouse with a 22.

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Ruff grouse, woodcock, squirrel, rabbit, goose and ducks in that order.

Grouse, rabbit and some gray squirrels. I'll hunt ducks as that last northern push comes down in late November as well

My best duck hunting was in the beginning of Jan. By than most other hunters where finished for the year There was a small creek where I hunted that did not freeze over unless the temps where bitter cold So it was the only open water and if it was really cold ducks would come in from other areas .I would some times use decoys ad other times I would stalk and jump shoot them . If I was lucky and we had a little rain or fresh snow the wood was quite and if I was patient enough I could get within good range by stalking them and shooting them when they flushed . I often was able to get a double on mallards and some times I would also get a black duck .The limit at the time was either 5 or 6 and I had a number of days when I shoot 3 or 4 and called it a day and was home before 10:0 AM few ducks every day for about 5 days in a row It was so cold they did not want to fly .And I was able to sneak closer than normal Some people frown on jump shooting ducks But my experience is it takes a lot of skill and effort to see them up ahead of you and stalk within range without them seeing or hearing you .And than flushing them and picking out one to shoot and sometimes being able to take a double

It used to be rabid with an air rifle. Now is squirrel with a 22lr pistol. I have a bunch of rabbits here and may give that a go with a 22 rifle or pistol.