Whos going. I will be out with my pops, walking roads. I know its green still, But he is itchin' to go and I will help him scratch. Post reports please.

went for a walk through the hunting woods north of grand rapids and kicked up at least a dozen birds. one covey had 5 birds.
nice numbers. encouraging.

With the rain this afternoon, that should save a few of them for poor schmucks like me that are stuck at work this weekend! LOL Say Dave, where exactly did you see those birds????? LOL

Brian

ah, it's easy brian, you head nort on dat von hivay, den tern right at da big pine tree. go a cupple more miles til ya get to da yard wit da cream seperator in da yard, den ya take a left and head nort again. ven ya see dat leanin popple tree ya no yer gettin close.
roll yer winder down and ya can smell da cows cuz ders a farm across da way tru da voods den just pull over and go huntin.
be careful tho cuz if da farmers home, he might want to wo-sham-bo ya fer da birds if ya got any

LOL! Glad to hear there's a few birds around. Now all I have to do is find some time to hunt them in between fishing, bowhunting, and the up coming duck hunts. We need about 3 months of October around here.

Let's see...............which 2 months do we get rid of?????
February, yay, no more stressing about Valentines Day gifts.

And how about April, not much going on then.

Brian

We found 6 birds, bagged 3. They were all huddled up under clumps of balsam. It was VERY wet and we didnt stay out as long as we would have liked, so for a short peirod of time, six birds aint too bad.
go vikes!

Yeah, the vikings, hmmm Anyway, where can I look up walking and/or atv trails for hunting up in that area? Which areas are typically better grouse areas than others?

The Forest Service has ATV maps outlining the routes open in the Chip and the Big Fork State Forest. This map illustrated those routes open to ATV's which was finalized (and now enforcable) since last year.

Thanks for the info. I don't hunt, but my dad does. It'd be easy to talk him into going up there though and do a hunting/fishing combo trip.

How are the leaves looking in the Remer area. Looking to head up to the cabin to hunt the weekend before deer opener.

Very Close to peak. I was up last weekend and about a fourth of the Maple leaves were on the Ground.

Well..... Between me and my pops, and between Marcell and blackduck we have gotten like 12 grouse so far(very good). We have done real well on rainy, misty days in balsam stands. The rest have come in random mature hardwood uplands. Surprisingly we haven't done that well in young aspen stands. With all the rain we are suppose to have this weekend I will be hitting some balsam stands again. GOOD LUCK! heres a pic of one I got with my mossberg bolt action 20 gauge.

our group did ok this past week. 4 geese 12 grouse ducks, and oh yea the spring lake area has one less bear.

Hey glennda, whats a grouse duck...new hybrid??? And whats up with the bear....roadkill??

hey blueberryum, i see your taking notes from the womens forum giving me a hard time! thats ok. hey its a new breed up there. j/k. i failed sentence punctuation in school thats all. nope no road kill, i used my daniel boone/ davey crockett huntin skills on that bear. anything else?