Ruffed Grouse Catch Clean and Cook - Washington State Grouse Hunting
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2022
- Ruffed Grouse Catch Clean and Cook! Washington State Grouse Hunting.
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Ruffed grouse hunting catch, clean and cook on a hot day in the Cascade mountains of Washington State.
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The Adventure Wife sounds like a smart Lady ;) Grouse looked good!
She doesn't know not nothin! It was so good :)
Glad to see you out having fun in the woods. Hoping to get some grouse soon myself. See you on the next one.
I walked a LOT! Was definitely a great day in the woods tho. Hope you get into some birds!
Another great video!!
Thanks!
Nicely done....grouse is delicious!
Heck yeah! Thanks!
Nice video! Provides the psych to get out and after it.
Right on! There's just two more weeks of grouse season here in Washington!
Great video as we enter into our Grouse season. Those drum sticks are just a complicated piece of meat to do any kind of flash cooking techniques. Got a recipe in mind for some this year that includes my smoker and then braising with some chilis.
Thanks! Man that sounds good! I got some recipes in mind too.. I can't give away all my secrets tho haha Wish you could email me a piece of that braised grouse!
Great hunting video! Keep them coming. I want to go grouse hunting now, see what you started! Nice 20 gauge and i like your shirt too!
Thanks! Grouse hunting is fantastic and I do believe the Northeast might be a great spot for it haha That shirt is pretty awesome.. only 5oz!
You are just getting better and better. Keep going strong and you will have 100x the followers.
I certainly wouldn't mind having 100k! UA-cam is kind of a fun hobby for me so we'll see if that ever happens 😂
That's what she sa... Ah beat me to it! Another great video! I got my first 12 gauge this month. Just had a .410 before. Looking forward to going on some grouse quests of my own. Thanks for putting out all the educational grouse content. Really enjoyed the cinematography on this one!
Heck yeah man! A .410 would definitely work but a solid shotgun is where it's at. Maybe a Washington Grouse Quest? I've never hunted to Olympics... maybe a grouse colab is in order
I'd grouse collab fo sho. Olympics grouse would be pretty cool!
Man that'd be fun! Well let's see if we can make it happen!
Awesome videos man. Went out last weekend and this coming weekend for grouse. Nothing last weekend but hopefully this weekend will be a success!
Thanks! Persistence pays when grouse hunting!
Awesome hunt
Thanks! Aways a good day when you're out in the woods!
Awesome video man. Gotta love forrest grouse
Thanks! Yeah not as flashy as elk or mule deer but I love grouse hunting!
The North Cascades is such a fantastic place to hunt Grouse. I always love to get up a bit higher and get into the Blue Grouse as I always thought their meat was a bit sweeter. But Ruffies are good eating too! I'm pretty sure I've been on those same roads a time or 2 over the last 35 years. Great video!
It sure is. I think blue grouse are more fun to target. Probably mostly due to where they live. Plus they're bigger!
I need to try that recipe! I usually just pan fry but that gets old. Great hunt!
Thanks! Yeah chicken strip style is a fantastic way to go
Nice! I finally got a couple birds this season. I had to completely change where I was going way too many people these days. In fact I just left western Washington as a whole. Just waay too many people these days.
Oh nice! Did you end up in Eastern Washington? Definitely a lot of people out n about
He's baaaaack!
Hell yeah boyeeeee!!!
Can’t wait to get out and find some grouse! I live in Washington on the Peninsula. Hopefully I can find some around my area! I need to try out my new 20g single shot.
I have never personally hunted out there but I get comments from people that have had success. You'll get some!
Thank you! Love your videos! Your one of my favorites to watch.
Thank you! That's awesome! I'll keep tryin to put out decent videos.. I try not to set the bar too high tho haha
Just had grouse and rainbow trout for dinner when I saw your video! We played is that a rock or is that a grouse all day yesterday 🤣
Nice! Sounds like you had a successful day!
So cool to see you back out on the grouse ! Looks like you ended up going with the CZ upland ultra light or CZ drake? Either way nice looking new shotgun man. Here in northwest Oregon the grouse hunting has been hard for sure so far but I've managed to get a few mtn quail which I'm happy about. Do you have mtn quail in your area ?
Thanks! You nailed it. CZ Upland Ultralight. So nice to carry all day. I think the grouse hunting will improve as soon as we get some rain. I believe there are some mnt quail around but scattered. Don't quote me on that tho haha
Went out this last weekend and played grouse or rock/stick/leaf/shadow as well. Some flushes but no success. Loads of bear poop though!
Yeah it's tough out there right now! Need rain. Apparently it ain't tough for the bears tho! They're everywhere right now
I have only been out hunting for grouse once this year so far. I didn't see any. We need some rain and cooler weather or this hunting season is gonna suck
Yeah I agree! Hopefully it'll happen here in the next few weeks!
Nice work 50% on grouse is tough odds to keep. Do you do much clay pigoen practice during the off season? My buddies and I usually meet for skeet and sporting clays weekly during the summer. I have a CZ drake 12 gauge I use on ducks, looks a lot like that Ultralight. I hit the woods with a 16 gage side by side for grouse.
I do ZERO practice. My first shot of the year is the first grouse I see haha I also have a CZ shotgun. Frickin love it
Try cooking your grouse with cream of mushroom and cream of chicken soup in an crock pot or Dutch oven. Brown Grouse, potatoes,onions ,green peppers and mushrooms. Throw in above cooking vessels for 2 hrs. We have done this for many hunting camps. Can't go wrong. Also used rabbit.
That sounds great! Definitely gonna try it
You can’t have buffalo wings without celery, carrots and ranch or blue cheese!! Most of the time the never get eaten, but still, you need them available! 🤣
To quote Bon Jovi... "it's my life!" Haha
thanks for the videos. All ready for my first grouse hunt next week!
Right on! Good luck man. Hope you get a few birds in the bag. Thanks for watchin!
@@CascadeBackcountry thanks! Just have to decide now: Dad's old Ithaca 37 or my fancy new A400? Whats the model and gauge you're using in this video?
Decisions Decisions! I'm using a CZ Upland Ultralight 20 gauge
Got three! 12 gauge maybe is a bit much though 😂
@@cahilldrummer kick ass!!!!! What size shot are ya using?
Love it buddy! Franks red hot haha I put that s*** on everything too! 😂 earned a new sub here, been liking what I’ve seen on your channel keep it up! 🤙🤙🤙
On EVERYTHING! Haha Thanks a lot!
You ever make the franks red hot wings? It's four ingredients (including the wings), and are such a treat!
Oh wait... Just got to the end!
Haha!
In my younger days I worked in food service.. I still remember the secret buffalo sauce recipe from that restaurant! Maybe try er out some time
Thanks for the videos! Informative for me as a gear up to become a hunter over the next year or so. What calibre/gauge shotgun do you find to be best-suited for grouse hunting of this type? I have some friends saying .410 is best, and other saying 20-gauge is best. Your views?
Heck yeah man! I personally use a CZ Upland Ultralight 20 gauge over-under. Really any shotgun has the power to knock down a grouse. What differentiates them is the amount of shot each will hold. A .410 shell might hold say 50 pellets of #7 shot where a 12 gauge might hold 300. So the 12 gauge will have a bigger spread... aka easier to hit stuff like a grouse. Honestly I think a lightweight 20 gauge is about perfect. Hope that helped and/or made sense haha
@@CascadeBackcountry awesome, thanks!!!!
Went out this weekend, and flushed more while driving than when I was on foot. What’s the best way to keep them from going deeper into the woods? Stop there and get out and walk closer? Drive up to where you saw them go in and get out? Keep driving passed them, get out and come back? No difference any way?
You'll almost always flush more driving than on foot because you can cover way more ground in a car. You have several options... if you see one in the road, get out n try to shoot it. If you flush it into the woods, go after it. Or you can drive right by it then stop and try to shoot it. They will all result in either a bird in the hand or a bird into the woods. I can give you this advice... usually when they flush into the woods, they just fly into a tree, so keep your eyes peeled and can probably pick one off a branch!
Liver, heart, and gizzard, are all tasty! The legs are hard work, yet make a tasty snack…
Yeah I almost set the liver and heart aside to fry up. Delicious!
Hey buddy it's Compass we have been talking on one of your other videos Its great to see you hunting that's definitely what I do.. I got very fortunate this year I drew a quality deer tag for the Diablo unit from Nov. 1-17 I'm super pumped I have taken some small white tails over the years but this is my best opertunity to get a good buck I have 2 bait piles up by Rainy lake and a couple around New Halem
Oh man that's awesome. Those are my stomping grounds. I spend a LOT of time up in that area and grew up near there. Is that Nov 1 - 17th a special season you have to draw for? There are definitely some big bucks up there! Hope you you get tagged out man!!
@@CascadeBackcountry yes its a draw hunt I got 1 of 10 tags. I got a couple cameras few miles below Rainy lake its been really tough the last month trying to locate even does its so dry and smokie im hoping deer activity will pick up once the weather changes. I could use some suggestions for trails to walk once the hikers slow down a bit once it rains. I have been avoiding the main trails so far because of so many people. Thanks buddy appreciate it.
Wow that's an awesome tag to draw! Wow man, rainy lake.. that whole area is obviously super beautiful and rugged. There's lots of people there all the way into October to see the Tamarack trees change color but sounds like you'll be there after they leave mostly. As far as trails.. do you have to stay north of hwy 20 (kind of) to avoid being in the National Park? There's so many trails out that way it'd be hard to even know where to start. I imagine, during your hunt, if you just follow the snow line you're bound to run into somethin!
@@CascadeBackcountry I got from just east of bacon creek to just west of Rainy Lake its it prett much runs the top of the ridge on both north and south side of hwy except around Ross lake thats huntable also. Gmu 426 I guess I'm looking for more of off the beaten path trails not the main hiking trails. Yes it's tough rugged country all up hill..lol But there should be some big boys showing them self a bit more once we get some weather.
That's a pretty awesome GMU! No idea how the hunting is there but if nothing else, you'll have great views. Let me know how it goes!
How do you find your spots? I am in snohomish county and wanna hunt the west side this year. Wanna get my first grouse! Lol
Honestly just wander old logging roads. There will be grouse haha. But a couple things I look for is a food source and water. I did a "where and how" to find grouse video last fall. Covers a lot of it. Go get em!
is it worth chasing ruff grouse in the evening? I am new to the PNW and have only gone after them in the early morning hours. Thanks for the video content, I have enjoyed them a lot. Also surprised you don't have more subscribers by now, keep going strong.
Heck yeah it is! Like most animals (and fish haha) grouse are most active in morning in evening but I hunt them all day. In fact, the grouse in this very video was shot a bit after noon. In my opinion, grouse is about covering ground and persistence. The weather right now is also super terrible for grouse hunting so they will be fewer and farther between. Thanks so much for watching and for the subscriber comment. I think I should have more subscribers too! haha
@@CascadeBackcountryThanks for the response, I did go out this evening. Saw one ruff down low before I got up to my hunting spot after that nothing but a cottontail. Still was a nice evening to get out for a couple of hours.
How do you like that CZ Upland Ultralight? I switched to the All Terrain model this fall.
I frickin love it. Actually carried it about 18 miles yesterday. Was WAY better than my old Mossberg! Thoughts on the All Terrain?
Well the AT is ugly. Let's get that out of the way. But I live in the mountains of Northern New Hampshire and it's rough country. I don't see the point of a $3,000 Browning getting mangled in the timber here. It's a great light weight user that handles well. I don't regret buying it despite that ugly green coat on the barrel.
Haha I haven't seen one in person but I take your word for it! Yeah I hear ya. No reason to smash through the brush with an expensive gun. Some day I'll make it out to the northeast to do some grouse hunting
Hey dude great videos Thank you. Question.
Looking at food, water, cover, gravel and roosting... If you could only have three (maybe four) of those important grousey things, what would they be and in what rank?
we're hunting here in Huron national Forest in Michigan and can't seem to get all of them in combination. curious what your thoughts are when you have a limited number of those perfect conditions.
cheers,
Kevin and Karl
PS. How does the wind affect grouse?
Thanks! That's a loaded question haha
Grouse are nuts and there are definitely spots where I get that grousey feeling but honestly I find them in all types of conditions. True story.. just 3 days ago I passed 2 grouse just hanging out in the MIDDLE of a busy highway. WTF! So I essentially never total disregard any spot, however!! there is one type of spot I find to be the grousiest. And that is the creek draw.. lemme explain. If I'm walking an old logging road and I find a bend in the road (into the hillside) with a gully with a creek in it, that's gold. The creek provides water for the grouse, cool damp air and water for ground food sources to grow and the creek gully provides a quick escape route if the grouse wants to fly off real quick. But if you forced me to pick 3 things... it'd be roadside cover so the grouse feel safe feeding there, a food source and water. Good luck out there guys!
Oh yes.. as for wind.. like most creatures, grouse will usually hunker down if the conditions are real nasty out but a little wind won't really matter much
@@CascadeBackcountry Awesome! Thanks for the feedback. We were thinking the same thing but wanted to bounce it off someone with more time after these guys. Thanks again!
@@oiludder heck yeah!
How long did you fry that grouse on each side?
They cook similar to chicken.. just smaller! Fry for a few minutes on each side. You'll know when they're done. Or just give it a cut with a knife and check it out
I want to get into grouse hunting, the hunting regulations are puzzling me big time - it there a simple way to understand where you can hunt and where you can't? WDFW map simply highlights the entire state... Is there a place you could recommend for a complete beginner to go for a first hunt?
You can grouse hunt on DNR and Forest land. A good resource would be OnX maps as it can include property lines and types of land you're on. If you are driving on an old logging road and it's not gated, there's a good chance you're on public land! The rules can definitely be a bit daunting but yeah.. Grouse hunting can be super fun!
What elevation you usually at when you go?
I generally hunt forest grouse from about 500 ft to 3000 ft. Once you get above that you'll start getting into the blue grouse
I shot a rock today. Willapa hills. Got into grouse twice in two hours. Missed twice.
Did you kill the rock at least? Haha
@@CascadeBackcountry I got the moss of one side. The rock seemed ambivalent about the entire episode.
@@grob25 haha! Maybe some buckshot will do the trick
What time did you start hunting, and about what time did you kill that grouse?
Grouse, like almost every animal and fish , are generally most active morning and evening. However... that grouse was shot a bit after noon. We really need some rain to get these grouse outta the woods tho!
@@CascadeBackcountry I got my first grouse of the season last night 5 min before last light in Whatcom county. No rain in the forecast at all still, crazy late summer.
Good job calling out the folks who waste the thighs. It's tender dark me that tastes amazing. I never waste the legs on a grouse.
They are delicious! And not that hard to get off the bird
I don’t know anything about hunting but I have some questions I was curious about:
1. How do you know what’s legal to hunt and what’s not legal?
2. For much larger animals (deer or bear) are they still hunted for food, or just for fur etc?
I feel like my stomach can easily handle fishing or grouse hunting, but a larger animal might make me too emotional. Like I said, not a Hunter but I’m curious. Thanks
Let me see if I can muddle up this answer haha
1. Most DNR or Forest Service roads are public land and you're allowed to hunt and probably the majority of old logging roads fall under these. You can also use an app like OnX that will show what is public and what is private.
2. I would say the majority of larger animals harvested animals like bear/deer/elk are harvest for meat but of course some people just do it for sport. Lots of people do it for both meat and sport! I feel ya on emotional thing. Taking a life is a serious matter!
@@CascadeBackcountry thanks so much for the thought out response. I really appreciate the information. Love the videos too! My wife and I vacationed up there recently and it’s been nice prolonging the beautiful views and feels of hiking up there with these videos. Thanks again
Thanks! The Nirth Cascades are a magical place... but of course I'm bias 😁
What gauge shotgun do you use?
I have used both 12 and 20 gauge. My favorite and current is a 20 gauge
@@CascadeBackcountry Thanks for the response.
I just bought a 28 gauge side by side for grouse. Did I make a mistake?
Of course! Hell no ya didn't! I was this close to pulling the trigger on a 28 gauge (sorry I had to say that haha) I fully intend to purchase a 28 gauge sooner than later. The only difference between a 28, 20 and 12 is that with the 28 you have to be a slightly better shot. Great purchase! Hope ya get into some birds!
@@CascadeBackcountry Oh good. Whew! I have been using a Savage over under with 22 on top and 410 below. I always used the 410 with a good success. But I just wanted a side by side before I croak! 😂
If you're getting grouse with a 410 you'll surely be fine with a 28 gauge! Side by sides are awesome. I would also like to use one before I croak
Recipe I just mentioned is for 3 or 4 grouse with breasts and legs.
Looks like Skagit?
Very close! I do spend a lot of time up the Skagit but this is a bump north of there
I've seen so many birds this year so far, and I've never tried grousing. It can't possibly be this easy can it? I mean you can just walk right up on them, they're dumber than a buck in rut
Not gonna lie... they're pretty dumb! Haha They're tricky to hunt tho cuz they're extremely camouflage, fast and dissappear into impossibly thick brush. It's a lot of walking miles for a few seconds of extreme excitement
@@CascadeBackcountry I've been rock throwing distance on maybe a dozen birds out where I'm at, just in the back yard. Looks like me and the 22 are gonna put in some work this year.
@Feeto Orourke in my younger days I definitely killed a few with a thrown rock. Sounds like you and your 22 are gonna get some dinner!
I should have waited to mention bird hunting!!!!
Haha plenty more to come!
The only thing you’re missing is a good dog
Sometimes I do think it'd be great to have a hunting dog
Would be much better to view this if you used a dog.
I am just distraught about disappointing you. I'll try to do better