Today's Adventure

[newby]

So today was the 2nd day of Grouse season in MT and I decided to take the dogs out to get some exercise and maybe find a grouse or two. I had just dropped them and came around the first corner when my 4 month old pup bailed off into the woods and started trailing a track, tail waggin, nose workin like she was getting ready to strike a cat but I was expecting her first deer race. Then she flushed a grouse up into a tree and proceeded to start treeing on it. I wounded it and it flew to another tree where she followed it and treed again...so, I may have invented a new way to hunt for grouse

I also found a fairly fresh lion scrape and a bear track and let her smell them both, and she went nuts opening like she wanted to take the track...got my hands full with this one.

[lepcur]

Good story Newby, sounds like a good hunt to me.

[outlaw13]

that is cool i wish i could have some luck with grouse like that. I just keep on missing them with my bow.

[newby]

yeah...it was pretty funny to see that pup trailin up that grouse and then treein on it! thinkin about starting a new breed of grouse-hound if anyone wants to get on the list

[kordog]

thats a pretty funny story ,but on a more serious note if you want to have a hound run your game of choice that is a step in the wrong direction imagine trying to run a cat or a bear and this pup now a dog keeps chasin grouse around .if that doesnt bother you then its no big deal . pups dont forget experiences like that.anything you shoot in front of a hound now becomes fair game.just some friendly advice take it or leave it.

[newby]

yeah...i could totally understand your point of view if she was more than 4 months old and it wasn't the first trash she'd gotten on. i was real quick to snatch it up and hide it real quick because i didn't want her to get a taste for it, but honestly, with this line of dogs, i think grouse is going to be the least of my worries as far as trash goes

i just couldn't pass up that grouse, hope she doesn't leave a lion track to go tree a grouse...that would sure be embarrassing, but i'm not real worried about either. While we're on the subject of bird-hounds, I used to have a friend in Nor-Cal whose strike wouldn't strike any trash (except turkeys). I thought it was funny. Later

[Teto]

Good story.

My Blackmouth curs will flush and tree grouse. I use them for squirrel and coon and they don't get to far out so I consider a grouse a bonus. Nothing like an all around meat dog!!

[Nolte]

While we're on the subject of bird-hounds, I used to have a friend in Nor-Cal whose strike wouldn't strike any trash (except turkeys). I thought it was funny. Later

I got a dog that likes to strike turkeys. She'll even run them too, but she struggles when they fly.

[newby]

Wonder how many "false trees" are trees where dogs put up birds of some kind, grouse, turkey, etc...

This pup is just gamey like her dad, she'll bay up anything I let her. Think we'll get her straightened out, hope to put her on a lot of lion in about 2 months.