Grouse Hunt, Pipe/Coffee Break

[pipedreamin]

No grouse were harmed in the making of this picture, post or prior, nice walk though! Stopped for a pipe and coffee up on a ridgeline. The Stanwell 95 loaded with C&D Palmetto Balkan, one of many gifted by our incredibly generous @Servant King, thanks again brother! Awfully quiet in the North Woods today, it often is. No matter, nice to spend time with a pipe and a new tobacco.

 

[DesertDan]

Great picture.
Didn't get drawn for turkey this year (dang!) but quail opens back up in January.
I love hunting upland birds. There is grouse in the northern part of AZ and pheasant around Yuma.
I have never had an opportunity to hunt over dogs, I'd sure like to try that sometime.

 

[pipedreamin]

Thank you Sir! Grouse hunting out West is a whole different animal than doing so in a Balsam thicket of the North Woods! Spent a good bit of time in UT, N & S but never hunted it, I would like to give that a go soon. Good luck out there.

 

[Bbailey324]

Sounds like a fine outing in the field. Good tobacco as well. Hopefully the grouse are more cooperative on another day.

 

[kcghost]

Always good to get out amongst nature.

 

[verporchting]

Paradise! Love upland game hunts - especially over a good pair of bird dogs. Once you get used to hunting over dogs you’re spoiled for life.

 

[yanoJL]

What a great photo!
And well done @Servant King

 

[pipedreamin]

Always good to get out amongst nature.

No doubt!

 

[Mike N]

That’s a fantastic photo. I have many great memories of hunting birds over dogs with friends and later my two sons in Western Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia. When you flush a grouse it can sound like a small helicopter taking off by your feet.

The first time I ever hunted was for rabbits as a boy with a .410 ga around 1968 with a neighbor who smoked a pipe. He had earned the right to have Semper Fi tattooed on his left arm and always had a great beagle.I can still smell that Half and Half.

 

[trudger]

Great memories of days in the UP stomping up pats and woodcock. Lately it’s been club pheasant which is nice but totally different.
Scuttle vents always make side-by-sides and pipes look classy . Thanks for sharing!

 

[Grumpy11]

Great picture.
Didn't get drawn for turkey this year (dang!) but quail opens back up in January.
I love hunting upland birds. There is grouse in the northern part of AZ and pheasant around Yuma.
I have never had an opportunity to hunt over dogs, I'd sure like to try that sometime.

Speaking of dogs, I've hunted grouse and quail with setters for 50 years. I can't walk well enough to bird hunt anymore, but I still own a beautiful Llewellyn setter. You're right; nothing beats following a bird dog with a 16 gauge Parker in grouse country in the fall.

 

[Servant King]

Glad you're enjoying those! Happy to do it. Lovely setting there...I could spend all day taking the scenery in, with a few pipes of course.

You wouldn't want me firing that scattergun, though--I'm like the Jewish Dick Cheney...

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

A lovely scalloped back box lock, what make?

 

[trudger]

Ok @pipedreamin more pictures and info on the rig and the shotgun please.

 

[Tbaggins]

Awesome looking country for a bird hunt. And yeah we need some more pics!

 

[solideogloria86]

I have seriously been reading up on Hun hunting. I really want to start hunting birds, but my problem is, I have 3 useless dogs, and I cannot/will not get a 4th. I know that hunting birds in the high desert without a dog is a huge task, and I'm not sure where to begin. I do eventually want to get a Brittany pup and train it up, but that'll probably be a few years down the road.

 

[pipedreamin]

That’s a fantastic photo. I have many great memories of hunting birds over dogs with friends and later my two sons in Western Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia. When you flush a grouse it can sound like a small helicopter taking off by your feet.

The first time I ever hunted was for rabbits as a boy with a .410 ga around 1968 with a neighbor who smoked a pipe. He had earned the right to have Semper Fi tattooed on his left arm and always had a great beagle.I can still smell that Half and Half.

I've been spooked by grouse so many times over the years, by design I'm sure.

 

[Mike N]

The best book series on hunting birds over dogs was written by the late George Bird Evans of Bruceton Mills, WV. His line of Old Hemlock setters is legendary.

link;

Old Hemlock

oldhemlock.org

 

[pipedreamin]

Glad you're enjoying those! Happy to do it. Lovely setting there...I could spend all day taking the scenery in, with a few pipes of course.

You wouldn't want me firing that scattergun, though--I'm like the Jewish Dick Cheney...

Much obliged SK! And I trust you could manage just fine!

 

[pipedreamin]

A lovely scalloped back box lock, what make?

1961 Sauer & Sohn, nothing too fancy but I like it.