Friggin grouse...

[Spogatz]

When I was young and working for the Ga Forestry Svs I walk up on a Pileated Woodpecker once and it screeched and flew off. I thought I would have to have my heart restarted after that. I was only about 3 feet from it. That was the loudest sound I think I have ever heard.

[Old Grouse]

Hey, if you have something to say, say it to my face!

[Serial 07]

in the doah's, i had a toad the size of a fist leap out at me with a rattler attached to one of its back legs...that was an adrenaline rush...it was the nature channel right in front of me...

oh, and the snake won...

[emerald]

I understand grouse are called "woods chickens" in some parts.

What parts might some include? I've never heard of "woods chickens" before.

[ki0eh]

Somebody who can spear a grouse with a hiking pole must be durned good!

[Tinker]

I had a Spruce Grouse walk about two feet ahead of me for 20 or so feet last month in Maine. Different from the noisy and nervous Ruffed Grouse. It would have been easy enough to hit it with a rock.
I heard a thruhiker say that one of his companions had killed one to eat. Hardly necessary (or sporting).

[Sly]

What parts might some include? I've never heard of "woods chickens" before.

Google says:

http://www.tofinotime.com/articles/A-T710-16frm.htm

[Pedaling Fool]

I've heard that Spruce Grouse are awful, thus no natural enemies - nothing will eat it. Any truth to that?

[taildragger]

I've heard that Spruce Grouse are awful, thus no natural enemies - nothing will eat it. Any truth to that?

http://www.outdoorsdirectory.com/akf...ting/53448.htm

Apparently some like em

[Ziggy Trek]

Hey, if you have something to say, say it to my face!

I just got off of the floor from lauging after I looked at your name
I love Whiteblaze for the entertainment value too!

[Nearly Normal]

Grouse are tasty.

[woodsy]

Grouse are tasty.

Yup, taste like chicken, of course

[canoehead]

I was up in the Whites Backpacking on Ethan Pond Trail, (AT in NH) for the past 5 days, checking out all the local peaks and a bit of climbing.... We had our first snow and the peak of Mt Washinton was great. We had a Blue Sky Day Sunday but the summit was coverd in a fresh blnket of the white stuff on Saturday. sweeeet.

Oh yeah,,,,, while on the EPT A Grouse flew up to a low branch in a tree 15'/20' away, and was watching me. So I walked to it slowly and it did not move. when all of a sudden it took off, made a bunch of noise. I thought I had scared it away.
As I turned around to get back on the trail, a big bull moose was standing on the trail watching me..........................It was brosing. Sort of like he was watching a movie, and I was in it...
I stayed put and we enjoyed each others company for a few. Then he was off.
And so was I.


Great Trip

[halibut15]

My first grouse encounter was on the Benton MacKaye just north of the Toccoa River Bridge. It shot out of a laurel thicket at us, popped up about head level with my fiance, let out a giant squawk, and took off like a rocket. We could hear it screaming down in the valley for a while. Awesome.

[sticks&stones]

On a nobo nighthike out of rangely I witnessed a female thru hiker completely breakdown when a pheasent took off in front of her. I mean uncontrolled sobbing, and screaming histerically, heaped out on the side of the trail for half an hour.
I always used the adrenline surge from pheasent scares for a quick boost up the trail.

[middle to middle]

The Ruffled Grouse has the uncanny ability to wait for a change in the rhythm of your pace before exploding into the air. I am an old bird hunter and they would wait until you were stepping over a log or barbed wire fence and off balance before flying. They do taste like chicken.

[wrongway_08]

Somebody who can spear a grouse with a hiking pole must be durned good!

Naaa, too much work, he just swung at them and broke the necks.

[taildragger]

Naaa, too much work, he just swung at them and broke the necks.

I would just let my 5yr old off his leash and he could go kill the grouse for me, also helps him pull his weight

[wrongway_08]

Hahhaha, i have tears in my eyes..... I can see it now.... kid running after the grouse..... kid gets to the end of the leash ...... busted up kid and no grouse to boot!

Thats why us real hunters use shock collars on our kids.

[Doctari]

Hiking in the AZ desert, one flushes quail and dove. A bit nerve racking but nothing compares to your first encounter with a rattling diamondback. Now there's an adrenaline rush!

Yep. Tenn, @ some state campground, 1967 or so: Brother & I were walking, he stepped on a snake, didn't even notice. I about 5 steps back saw what it was (& not just a stick), just as it started to rattle. I aged from 13 to 30 in that instant