bscrandall
Senior Member
Shot in the dark but about how far do you have to go for grouse? Anyone think there would be any on cohutta or would I need to go further east?
There are still a few and maybe even a few more than people think, but it is hard hunting. The eighties and part of the nineties were still good. I still think there might be enough left that they could come back if the land was managed right, but the clock is ticking.
Having been an old era Grouse hunter from the '50s through the '80s, I know I experienced the hey-day of Georgia's grouse hunting, I am sure. However, there are still a few grouse left, which I cross paths with going into and out of the turkey woods I still visit. I even saw a grouse walking across a White County blacktop road just North of Cleveland, GA. not long ago.
Also, I am the ole hunter who wrote the grouse story published back in December's GON magazine titled Mountain Grouse Memories.
I enjoyed that article a lot, it brought back some memories here, too.Having been an old era Grouse hunter from the '50s through the '80s, I know I experienced the hey-day of Georgia's grouse hunting, I am sure. However, there are still a few grouse left, which I cross paths with going into and out of the turkey woods I still visit. I even saw a grouse walking across a White County blacktop road just North of Cleveland, GA. not long ago.
Also, I am the ole hunter who wrote the grouse story published back in December's GON magazine titled Mountain Grouse Memories.
What led to their decline ? Loss of habitat ? Predation ?
We have no fire ants at all. The quail still disappeared about the same time they did down in the flatlands.The old time bird hunters around here, quail hunters, blame the fire ants for destroying the clutches. Is that a possibility ? Do y'all have them devils up there ?