I always used to carry a sling shot while moose hunting in Quebec..
I ve killed a few spruce grouse , they are good eating..
I had access to some surplus ball bearings , that where cheap ammo ...
With some practice, you get pretty good at it ..

I don't know anything about grouse but a sling shot should kill them fine if you can shoot well enough. My boys have taken several critters with theirs. Last I can remember were pigeons in the neibors barn thar were leaving a mess on the hay. One was a banded racing Homer from Oklahoma city area about 700 miles from homebwhen it was killed.

Seems I remember Jack O'Conner using a slingshot to hunt grouse out west during an elk hunt.
Many Canadians call them stupid birds.
At least where I was in Quebec , they hunted them a lot.

ever got ito them might take a walkabout this weekend

Thanks guys I will give updated post when I get back going to give it a try

Use a gun. If it is anything like around here there are folks shooting at grouse all season. The moose hear plenty of gun shots. I walked up on these on the way back to the truck after shooting some grouse.

keep us posted, I'm sure it will work fine!

Killed a couple blue grouse in 1987 in Colorado with rocks they just ran around like chickens but I threw a lot of rocks lol great eating to from what I remember

All depends on what kind of slingshot your using, a wrist rocket for example with lead shot will pass right through most game at 20/25 yards or if you go for head shots, my friends as a kid nicknamed me head hunter because that’s what I did and it’s totally doable with some practice

I saw some video's, of snaring grouse , They use a thin pole with a snare wire , on the end. They approached roosting grouse, placed the noose over the grouses head and set the snare. If several in the tree , snare the lower one first and work your way up. It definetly wouldn't work on our local grouse. old243

used them ever since I was a kid and I use 00 buck or ball bearings, I lost a lot hit in the breast, a side shot works good breaking a wing. The best shot I found is in the back, you hit the backbone and they are stunned or paralyzed fall out of the tree or walking away from you just start flapping.

I used to shoot blue grouse with a wrist-rocket. I'm sure they still make them, or something similar. They were the go-to slingshot back in the 70's.

Thanks for that I was curious on best place to try and take ‘em
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