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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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!!

newby wrote: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.

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.