GRAND MARAIS - Even at 1 or 2 miles per hour, the pickup lurched and bounced over a rough crossing on the marginal forest road. “This is the good part,” said Kelly Shepard of Grand Marais. He was ...

WEBVTT HAND AT A GROUSE HUNT. REPORTER: YOU MAY HAVE BEEN STARTLED BY A ROUGH GROUSE IN SPRINGTIME WITH THE DRUMMING NOISE THEY MAKE IN THE WOODS. BUT WHEN I WENT TO THE KILKENNY RANGE WEST OF BERLIN ...

Bob Barbo is known as a duck hunter. His family cars have never seen the inside of the ga­rage. It is reserved for two duck boats and vast piles of decoys. His dog is a Chesapeake and he shoots a ...

Ruffed grouse hunting grew up in 19th century New England, so naturally it can be a bit of a prude. So genteel in certain circles, so neatly wrapped in tradition and style, it must seem to some ...

Minnesota’s spring population of ruffed grouse appeared to be about the same this year as in 2019, according to the annual drumming survey conducted by the Department of Natural Resources. The average ...

Grouse hunters — who hope for good weather for the opener of the season this Saturday — have forever been looked upon as the elite among small game hunters. And why not? Most consider grouse as the ...

The ruffed grouse season opens in mid-September and does not end until sunset on New Year’s Eve, but few hunters pursue grouse in November and December. In fact, during the 30-plus years I have hunted ...

BRAINERD — It wasn’t what I was hoping to find as I wandered my property on a cold January day. Atop the snow lay a pile of feathers, grouse feathers to be exact. I knew the remains were that of Ruff, ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will allow sharp-tailed grouse hunting in Grand Forks County north of U.S. Highway 2 this fall, an area that has traditionally been closed to sharptail ...

This story, “Best Grouse Hunting in America,” appeared in the Sept. 1985 issue of Outdoor Life. Bob Barbo is known as a duck hunter. His family cars have never seen the inside of the ga­rage. It is ...