For the first time in seven years, Wisconsin may host a sharp-tailed grouse hunting season this fall. At least that's the recommendation of the Department of Natural Resources' Sharp-tailed Grouse ...

Sep. 13—The season of long walks with a shotgun is upon us. Washington's forest grouse hunting season begins Sunday, drawing hunters into the woods with dreams of wingbeats. Some hunters view their ...

Grouse hunters are a notoriously opinionated bunch. Put more than two of them in the same room and sure as sunrise they’ll find something to disagree about. More likely, they’ll find lots to disagree ...

Here is the weekly report from Department of Natural Resources conservation officers in northwest Minnesota and adjacent areas of northern Minnesota for the week of Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. CO Ben Huener ...

Something funny is going on with Minnesota ruffed grouse hunting this fall, and even the experts are at a loss to fully explain it. A whopping 57 percent increase in spring drumming counts hasn't ...

Ted Dick and Meadow Kouffeld-Hansen can tell you how to shoot more grouse and woodcock this fall. Both Dick and Kouffeld-Hansen are avid grouse and woodcock hunters, and they’re in the business of ...

MONTPELIER — Vermont's hunting season for ruffed grouse or "partridge," is Sept. 27 through Dec. 31 this year. The daily limit is four grouse with a possession limit of eight. The Vermont woodcock ...

IN THE CHIPPEWA NATIONAL FOREST — They have pitched an old army tent and rekindled old friendships at this time in October for the past 22 years, here in a thick maple forest painted bright yellow by ...

Grouse and the cover they live in shape grouse guns. Heavy brush demands a light, compact gun that can be carried in one hand while the other fends off branches. Limited visibility dictates open ...