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How to Stretch Your Game Bag

September 3, 2024 by Ruffed Grouse Society

by Bradley Gorzek I refuse to come home empty-handed from a day afield. A lack of contacts or inability to connect can make it hard to put feathers in my game bag some days.  Other times, the birds come down faster than I planned.  Whether I’m killing it or getting killed, I never want to cut a good day short – especially when I drive a while to get somewhere special. Luckily, there are a host of edibles in the uplands to help me extend those days without discharging a single shell. Though my griffon sidekick might find it odd, I keep...

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Clandestine Quest for Fungus and Flushes

April 29, 2022 by Ruffed Grouse Society

by Brian Koch Every upland season has a final bird. I usually go into that walk with mixed emotions. For those obsessed with upland pursuit, it’s one last opportunity to try and make sense of the world through the rush of wings and burnt powder. And it’s our final chance to stretch legs and follow dogs, to soak up all that’s good and wild before hanging up the boots and hosing off the shotgun.  Then the time comes for bony and scarred bird dogs to recover from the hard-fought covers of a long season. I stow hunting gear in the back corner...

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