Hunting Blue Grouse with 16 Gauge Over Under Franchi
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For 44 years I’ve had the good fortune to photograph and write about my passion - the outdoor life. Wild creatures and wild places have always stirred me - from the first flushing pheasant that frightened me out of my socks in grandpa’s cornfield to the last whitetail that dismissed me with a wag of its tail. In my attempts to connect with this natural wonder, to become an integral part of our ecosystem and capture a bit of its mystery, I’ve photographed, hiked, hunted, birded, and fished across much of this planet. I've seen the beauty that everyone should see, survived adventures that everyone should experience. I may not have climbed the highest mountains, canoed the wildest rivers, caught the largest fish or shot the biggest bucks, but I’ve tried. Perhaps you have, too. And that’s the essential thing. Being out there, an active participant in our outdoor world.
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I'm getting winded just watching this old man! What a fantastic hunt!
Thanks for taking your old crippled fans along on your hunt. I loved bird hunting with my GSP Indian Brook Fritz!
Covey says HI to Indian Brook Fritz.
Thank you Ron, you're such a legend and inspiration even for young guys like me I'm 15.keep on keeping on
Thanks Cameron. I love hearing from young go-getters like you. Keep on keeping on yourself! Maybe we'll bump into one another in the field someday.
@@RonSpomerOutdoors hopefully but I live in south africa in the province of kzn you should drop by some time there are lots of awesome places to hunt like goss farm in pongola.💪
@Eric E thank you sir
Great video Ron! Thanks for bringing us along. Some of my fondest memories are of hunting pheasant over my Weirmararner, Chomp in the corn and alfalfa fields of Lancaster County, PA. There is nothing quite so satisfying as seeing your dog work well and the taste of fresh meat! And yes!! We ate the morning's harvest for supper!
The terrain is a bit different, but up here I love going grouse hunting in Manitoba and North Western Ontario each year. It's peaceful and relaxing, and even if you don't get a bird, you still got some fresh air, exercise, and let go of the stress.
And when you do spot a bird and stalk it for the perfect shot, that's just the cherry on top.
Ron if you see the ghost of Patrick McManus up there still trying to get a grouse please tell him I still enjoy reading his books! Have every one!
McManus brought more tears to my eyes than all the tragedy in my life.
I think that is my same exact gun, Ron! I chose it because it is half a pound lighter than the 12 ga. That's a lot when hiking all day. And everyone knows the 16 kills as well as the 12! Covey is going to need a bath after that sojourn. Thanks, Ron!
Carry’s like a 20 packs like a 12. Something like that, but ever since buying a 16 it’s my main shotgun
Love my great-grandfather's old-old Winchester Model 12 in 16 gauge for birds. Full choke is great for pheasants, but for your hunt, modified or more open would be great. The 16 hits perfectly hard for big birds.
Doesn't get much better, getting in some quality time with Covey And bringing home some good eating!
Ron i love your style of camping out. Hats off.
Definitely an Elk scrape and a BIG one at that!
I'm pushing 70 Ron and I get out of breath and stumble around too...lol
Can't eat meat the same day it's shot?
Makes you laugh when you hear BS like that doesn't it? Great video!!!
Right on
Just love how excited the dog was. He knew what was up.
Great video Mr!! Nothing like spending the day hunting with your pup.
Awesome hunting, awesome scenery, awesome company. Thanks Ron.
Lived in Idaho for 5 years, loved it, thank you for taking me back with this video!
Watching the automatic opening of the action to cross the creek made me smile.
Such a lovely video. Was out hunting sprucies with the missus yesterday. Rough and wet hiking on Canadian shield and boreal forest north of Yellowknife, but it was fun and successful.
That bark chew looks very similar to what our moose do to poplar trees up here.
I watched two other grouse hunting videos before yours came up, and both were rampant with muzzle sweeping each other. Sheesh!
Always enjoy your videos and demeanor. If you're ever up this way, let me know. Happy hunting!
I could hear the altitude taking effect. Thanks for taking us along with you!
Awesome video. I always loved hunting grouse. Like you said, you don't get a lot of shooting but it's the best way to see nature
Mr Spomer,..came here after reading about Covey in my issue of NRA Hunter. Beautiful pic of her on the cover, eyes intent on point and paw up. Have had 8 ESs, working on #9. Good episode. C looks like shes having a ball, in her element.
What a wonderful video! Thanks so much for sharing Ron!!
I’ve been hunting over my fathers dogs since I was ten years old. I’m 37 now and started running my own dogs in 2005. My father can’t get around anymore but watching this video and seeing that terrain brought back sooooo many memories. I loved this video, thank you for producing such quality content.
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Out here on the coast, they're Sooty Grouse Ron! Awesome video. I plan to hunt for this same bird for the first time this coming October with my father, so this video is very well timed. Love the channel as always.
Yes, I remembered Sooty AFTER finishing the soliloquy. Have never gotten one of those.
More of this. Beautiful setter. Managed to get 3 pheasants over my lab, and leaning into hungarian partridge and sharptail soon.
Hi Mr spomer habitat looks great,very different to here in the rsa🇿🇦 beutifull hope you guys enjoyed it👍👌
Thanks Ron. I enjoyed the video. I love the bond with the Covey.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Well done sir. You are my favorite writer and video host. I really appreciate your humor and ease in the field. Some folks take it all to serious, we’re supposed to be having fun right. I just brought home brace of blue’s and they hit the pan tonight. Fast and hot right 🥩
Thank you Ron. You and Cubby really put some work into this grouse hunt.
That break action 16 gauge brings back fond memories. My dad inherited a break action 16 gauge and it was the first centerfire firearm I ever fired.
We'll be after chukars and Huns in Hell's Canyon soon. Videos to follow, I hope.
@@RonSpomerOutdoorsin Idaho or Canada?
Working dogs always amaze me. So impressive to see
Great video Ron, great to see Covey doing her thing. Made cooler by the “heat it and eat it” cooking session and the Mossberg T shirt, desperate to get my hands on one of those! 👍🏻
Thanks 👍
Loved it Ron , I became a hunter on Ruffed Grouse when I was a kid in North Western Washington state this brought back some great memories of hunting in the 70s
Thanks Chuck.
Chuck, where did you grow up?
I'm out of Forks.
Tripping over spruce grouse in central and northern Alberta . Blue grouse are the rare ones here. Happy hunting
Ron,
What a nice presentation and so well communicated as usual.
When I was a youth I thought the only thing worth doing was grouse hunting. These days I have some mobility issues and no dog, so enjoy doing it vicariously through you. The cover certainly was thick. I enjoy seeing Covey work.
Thanks
Ned Jones
P.S. I had read your TriStar side-by-side article in American Hunter but failed to connect it with you. A video presentation would be nice.
Loved this video! 👍
Hunting grouse is one of my favorite activities.
"Covey" is a great bird dog. ❤️
I'd love a video talking about pros and cons of 16 gauge... or 12 vs 16 vs 20
I usually find ruffed grouse on shady north side slopes in heavy pines. Good targets of opportunity during scouting for deer and elk season. They have a great flavor but are sometimes a little tough. Wonderful video. Love your channel.
I absolutely love my Franchi Veloce 20 gauge Over / Under for pheasant hunting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have just discovered your channel and I really love your videos! All the best and greetings from Austria
Now that looked like a real tasty treat! Thanks for putting together this video, Ron. Makes me anxious to get after some pheasants with my dog Macey!
You bet. Good luck to you and Macey.
I remember hunting turkeys in n. Arizona with my dad when I was 12. My dad spotted 2 turkeys behind a log with just their heads showing. My dad let me shoot first with my single shot 12ga. Direct hit on one and a single pellet through the head of the second. My dad hurried to put them in the game bag and said we were done hunting. Dad cleaned them in the trailer with the door closed. Cooked them in the fire after dark and then I found out how much I loved the taste of grouse.
Yep. 😁
Awesome hunt, congratulations! Absolutely love Covey, such a beautiful dog.
Thanks 👍. Covey is one pretty dog!
Great video Ron! Need more of these.
I had just today put the kennel in my suv for the beagle. Shes 2 now and I'm expecting great things this year. Now I see u and ur dog and looking even more forward to hunting with my hound lol! Another great video!
Thanks Jake. Good luck to you and your beagle.
Ron,I love your franchi bird gun.Looks like 26 in barrel and no doubt as light as a BB gun.With the gun being 16 guage it doesn't destroy the bird when you shoot it.Back in the 70s and 80s I used to hunt ruffed grouse ,woodcock,snipe,and bobwhite quail.Watching your video brings back the memories I have when I used to hunt.Great looking bird dog.
Thoroughly enjoyed this please do more.......
Beautiful point, and good shooting. Heat um and eat um. Just my style. 🤣🤣
great gauge, beautiful gun, all in all very classic firearm on a classic hunt
I got on these in north and Central Idaho. I use an old Winchester 12 20ga and an Alex Henry 12ga double.
Good to see a 16 gauge double in use
Great video. We live in Colorado and just got our first hunting dog, a German Shorthaired Pointer. I just started to plan a grouse hunting trip with her - can’t wait!
Good luck.
The smoothie! LOL. Wasn't expecting that.
Beautiful dog Ron. I live and hunt Northeast Washington and I recognize that habitat and I know how hard it is to wingshoot in. I’m actually heading up tomorrow between Preist lake and Sullivan Landon the Wa side looking for Blues but I always end up in Spruce grouse. If you wanna come Spruce grouse hunt I’m your man lol.
Great hunt! My dog does the exact same thing! Been hunting him in the prairie for sharp-tail grouse
Great video Ron and always nice to see the pup. While elk hunting I ran into a pocket of Dusky Grouse. Wasn't able to get any, but I didn't forget where they were. May go back this weekend and see what I can do. 😁
You need a .45 revolver that'll shoot .410 and carry as a side arm!
Great video Ron, we here in Wyoming hunted ruff grouse and blue grouse. My dad and I got 5 ruffies and 3 blues. Super good eating.
Good stuff
Great video, would love to see more like this.
No offense Ron, you're great but Covey is why I subscribed.
Looks like your dog was having a good time.
The classic 16 you can’t beat it
I have found that Shake and Bake is very good for oven frying or pan frying grouse and chuckars.
That is really great land up there.
Cant wait for Grouse to start here in Michigan
I'm in the foothills close to Yosemite and hunted Quail until a few years ago when my back and knees said enough. I kept going down in gauge to get a lighter and lighter gun. My model 42 was about perfect but lacking a bit in our heavy brush. I settled on the Model 12 in 16ga and had a special stock made for it. It turned into my upland gun. Lightweight and plenty of punch! The 16 never became popular in the west but after hunting with one I don't know why?
First! I always love getting here early. Its nice to see a 16 gauge getting some attention. These days we can do anything a 16 can do with a light 12 gauge load or a heavy 20 gauge load, but I still think they are great.
I take close to hundred rabbits every winter withe a Remington M46 16 GA
Well said!
I love this video and content!
Great work!👍🏻
Thanks so much!
Living in north central British Columbia, the Ruffed Grouse is the most common grouse we see. On occasion a Spruce Grouse is added to the bag. A favourite way to cook them at my place is to cut the meat into bite sized cubes and do them up in good old Shake 'N Bake. The kids call it "grouse nuggets".
Maybe it's the lower population (thus lower hunting pressure) around here compared to most places in the US, along with the vast areas of forest but I can safely say that a day's grouse hunting will usually lead to a full daily limit of ten birds. Back when all five kids still lived at home, that was simply putting food on the table. Now that all five are on their own, a few hours out in the afternoon will provide three or four, just right for the wife and myself. Two for dinner that night and leftovers in the fridge for a tasty, memorable snack the next day.
Mmm mm. Sounds good Stephen. Enjoy.
Great Video 👍🏻 Ron I am from Sweden 🇸🇪🤠🦅🇺🇲 I Love this channel 🎥 ❤️
Thanks 👍
What a great video Ron! Even our Black Lab (Wigeon) enjoyed the video. She has never really watched a show like that. I think she spotted your dog hunting and was quite interested. Love your style!
Always cool when a dog recognizes another dog on screen. Thanks NW.
That dog os a legend! Keep ot up Cubby!
Covey and I will keep it up. Should have another video in a week or so.
Awesome hunt Ron!
Love the mountains. Just wish the environmental cult earth worshipers would understand that forest service needs to get in and clean up all the downed timber for fire reasons. I've never been in a Norwegian forest, but I hear they are spick and span out there by comparison. Returning to wood-burning for household heat and ash application on private gardens would bring a lot of health back to the population.
Blame the lumber companies for leaving so much slash...almost impossible to hunt some places here in N. Idaho with it everywhere
@@xxxarmycop Trump said it a few years ago, about the lack of forest cleanup in the western US and it's mostly the environmental crybabies that have every kind of non-scientific religious excuse to stop it.
@@exothermal.sprocket Not the case where I live....lumber companies go in take the good stuff and leave tons and tons of slash....environmental types are rarely the religious types as well.
@@xxxarmycop Your situation there might be more anecdotal.
What I mean by religious, they worship the earth essentially and many refer to it as mother. That's a religion.
Nice hunt, gets ne excited!
Great video R. Spomer.
Thanks James.
Great video, thank you so much for sharing all of this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hey Ron, I am getting ready to build the 4th version of my truck bed camping set up, and I'm wondering if you could do a quick video on your bed/ storage set up? A little off the topic of guns but I bet a bunch of other folks would like to see it as well ;)
Might do that. Didn't know anyone cared.
@@RonSpomerOutdoors I'm sure there are many of us who travel and (at least some times) camp in our trucks :) Trailers are great, but limit you, motel rooms make it too easy to "sleep in" on crappy days.. nothing will get you out of bed like waking up in elk country, during season when it's 11 degrees outside, and you are in the back of your truck!
It’s amazing how Covey transitioned from Kansas.
Looks like a pretty good place to be.
Someday I would love to go out west and hunt. Being a farmer in Ohio not much time to get away
Great video- lots of spruce grouse where I am in northern Ontario if you feel like taking a road trip
Thanks for the tip!
Good to see the real way to hunt , you best with a dog to hunt grouse , I use to hunt ruffle grouse back in MA when there was places that had them . I found that going after them more fun then pheasant . They test your skills more then pheasant. Ron you know what I mean .
I sure do. But they can be frustrating, too. Sometimes I move 14 ruffed grouse, see about 8, shoot at 6, and bag 3. But the scenery!
@@RonSpomerOutdoors Thank you Ron for showing this , that way others will have a better understanding of hunting these type of birds also brought back of the times I use to go out with my dad also with the dog I had . Yes it can be frustrating , that is the why not many wants to go after them . Also you know if you do not have a dog that you have a hard time finding them . I know ruffle grouse have a thing that when they hit they go down in the leaves a cover themself. Try to hide , with a dog they do not have a chance .
Love the 16! I miss my side by side 16ga! Unfortunately, the 16 is getting harder to find! Great video
Thanks for watching!
What a smart dog! Our dog once helped us catch a fish , we want to train him to hunt with us as well. 😂😂
Nice video im thinking of getting a franchi . Nice looking dog to !
That looks like a LOT of fun!! I've never hunted Grouse, but I'd love too! If you ever find yourself in Southern Arizona, we have GREAT Dove and Quail hunting! It'd be awesome to hunt with ya! Keep up the GREAT work good sir! Much respect and support from Yuma, AZ. 👍👍
Ryan, I've had some incredible quail hunts around Oracle, Sonoita, etc. Let me know when the populations are high. I've got to get back down there.
@@RonSpomerOutdoors Will do good sir! They should be really good! We've gotten quite a bit of rain and I've ran into a lot of them. How can I get in touch with ya?
Good hunt Ron..
That was fun!
16 ga is a great upland game caliber. I love the dedicated 2 3/4" chamberings which make for amazing slick pump action. Sadly when 3" offerings for 12 and 20 gauge hit the market dedicated 2 3/4" actions as factory new guns disappeared. Nothing wrong with shooting it out of a side by side or over under either.
Awesome video, would love to try this style of hunting
Try it Richard. My blog on ronspomeroutdoors.com gives more information on how to hunt here in the west on public ground.
Good shooting,Ron. Best eating birds out there!
I gotta get one of those smoothie blenders.
Man I enjoyed this. You just want to be there with you, covering the right wing.
I was never lucky enough to hunt grouse in the west. Hunting grouse in Pennsylvania and north to New Brunswick is similar with exception of being done at lower altitudes. In some areas you had a mix of Pheasants, Woodcock and Quail. In other areas you might find Ruff Grouse and Woodcock. However; hunting Grouse meant Grouse in mountain woods and Ringnecks in rolling farm lands. West Virginia and Ohio had good hunting too. A good day hunting for Grouse was counting the flushes. There were fewer shots and Grouse taken than bird’s flushes. Getting a pair of Grouse or limit was a rare occasion for time spent. I figured on walking ten miles for every Grouse I put in my game bag as doing pretty good. Best thing about hunting Grouse is seldom seeing anyone else most days. It doesn’t get any better hunting Grouse alone with just the company of your Dog. As Grouse guns go; I like short barrels and light weight guns; and having a sling on one is even better. I shot two doubles on Grouse in my life; both times using a 20ga. So that is the best gun for me. My second choice is a 28ga. If you are a hardcore Grouse hunter we all have one thing in common. Sitting down for a break sharing your lunch with your dog. Then having a Grouse flushing giving you the best shot of the day with a cup of coffee in your hand. You had pretty good day in your video. I suggest leaving that Yuppie smoothie machine home and eat man food. ✨👏✨🍺🍜
What?! No more fruit smoothies! Well, I need to give up milk anyway, so my wife might inherit this machine. Maybe she'll concoct some nice milkless fruit smoothies. Maybe I can find recipe for Pina Colada with ice cream!
I found my first big boomer spruce grouse hunting moose the year before last, my dad and I have a 20 gauge "beater" Pointer over under I took for a walk next to the border of a wildlife corridor we'd seen a big bull dissappear into the day before, hoping to call him out. I saw several ruffs and spruce, so the next day I took the shotgun along, and as I didn't have my lab I still hunted across deep moss and the soggy floor of a pine forest in a swampy bottom. Ended up ground swatting a big old cock bird and then tagging one of his two hens, promptly plucked and turned them into camp fare. Good days. I find lots of them in those edges of where swamps, bogs, and creek bottoms meet older pine woods.
Great video!
Excellent video, you don't see a lot grouse videos....
Thank you very much!
Delicious. Grouse nuggets 😋
I've only taken Sage Grouse in S.W. WY. I'd love to try the Blue Grouse though. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching!
Covey, great name and a cutie at that…
Great video Ron! Let me know if you ever want some more company this season. I’m in the Nampa area. I have a small Munsterlander, and just got a new Triad SXS 20 ga. Thanks Ron!
Cool, thanks. And good luck this fall.
I'm one of those folks that doesn't like to eat grouse the same day I've shot it. The meat tastes delicious, but it tastes just like it smells when you're dressing the carcass (if that makes sense), and my brain doesn't let me enjoy it because of that. Otherwise, looks like a fun hunt! I've got an English Setter named Duke and an old Stevens 311A SxS in 16 that I hunt ruffed grouse here in northern Utah, so your hunt looks a lot like my own. Hopefully heading up this weekend! Good luck next week!
Good luck Jiggy. We've got our fingers crossed for spruce grouse, but then moving into chukar country for that opener. To circumvent any bad odors while cleaning your birds, filet the meat off without opening the body cavity. Breast, legs, wings and some along the back. Slick.