What do you use for grouse?

[finaddict]

.410 single and or .22 pump (preferred)

[Squamch]

I use a frisbee golf driver disc once this year. Wasn't a clean kill, the bird started fluttering around in a circle so I grabbed it and wrung its neck.

[Foxton Gundogs]

[QUOTEthehammer]This tread kills me every time it gets resurrected. Some folks on here talk like all grouse are equaland all are hunted in the same terrain, seems all they know is a “road chicken”,makes me laugh. In BC we commonly hunt 4types of Grouse in more different types of terrain than you can think of, how is it one shell or bullet does it all. Oh and some do fly.[QUOTE]
Well I have hunted Blues, Ruffies, Spruce, Sharptail as well as Ptarmigan from the Yukon to the US border, The Island to the Rockies over dogs using a 12 ga, #7.5 shells, seem to do just fine for all.

["No Choke"Lord Walsingham]

If one were to take the same combination posted above they would surely do well on Sage Grouse too by carrying the travel on south of the U.S. border.

As for me, I like a 12g with #6 shot but am flexible/not too picky on the shot size as long as it is not smaller than #7.5.

[Bubba123]

Marlin 795 loaded with mini-mags with a 2-7 x 28 Leupold rimfire scope. Pop the heads off ditch chickens all day within a stone's throw.

[thehammer]

"Well I have hunted Blues, Ruffies, Spruce, Sharptail as well as Ptarmigan from the Yukon to the US border, The Island to the Rockies over dogs using a 12 ga, #7.5 shells, seem to do just fine for all."

Funny I remember reading one time you said you us high brass # 6 for blues.

[Foxton Gundogs]

I may have, 6 are the preferred load for some of the bigger birds ie blues and pheasant BUT I've killed a pile with 7.5 upland load and you said "how is it 1 shell does it all". My point was that combo does just fine. So would 6s for that matter. Take your pick either or. if you want to split hairs.

[835]

20 Ga #6 for me.
Great uncle used 7.5 in the early season because the birds held tighter.. Then as the season progressed hed switch to 6's.


I have just always bought 6's... When you are Ditch chicken shooting it usually is at a distance. Hunting behind a dog, well i still use 6's ..

[eric]

I use a 20 Ga..22 LR..and I tried a sling shot using steel shot this yr...I sucked with the sling shot, went back to the 20 Ga

[Sasquatch]

I will use 7.5, 8, or 6 shot in that order...depending on terrain and what I have in my pocket at the time.

When wing shooting, I think choke is more important than the size of shot or gauge. I like a cylinder choke or IC for grouse.