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2022 Wisconsin Grouse Camp

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Mark your Calendars and clean your gun. 2022 Grouse Camp is on!

New to grouse and woodcock hunting? Don’t know what good habitat looks like? Don’t have a bird dog? We’ve got you covered!

RGS & AWS members and partners will be on-site and ready to introduce you to the grouse woods. Expect opportunities for mentored and DIY hunting, how-to demonstrations and new connections.

 

Proceeds go towards conservation of forest wildlife and support for RGS & AWS.
Please consult your doctor and the state’s COVID-19 guidelines before attending events. For more, visit cdc.gov.

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words: How to Choose the Best Shotgun for You – Part I

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By Oliver Hartner Shotguns become tangible and intangible extensions of ourselves. Our minds meld with them in an almost miraculous feat of complicated mathematical calculation between the time a shooter acquires a target, pulls the trigger and tumbles a game bird. We create memories with them during our hunts, and they become familiar companions as we move through different stages of our lives. They inspire us to practice our craft because we owe it to the birds we kill. And when we part the veil between this world and the next, they stay behind as coveted family heirlooms, or they find...

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Woodcock as a Southern Bird

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by Tom Keer A few winters ago, Quebec’s Don Keddy, a field trialer and grouse and woodcock hunter, had enough. The long, gray, Canadian winters are hard on bird doggers. To break his cabin fever, Keddy packed up his truck and road-tripped his way to Georgia. For him, the balmy weather would be a nice change of pace. Equally, trading the hawthorn tines and thick alder runs for soft grasses would change attitudes, certainly for him, but more importantly, for his dogs. Along the way, Keddy found a trend that has been forming for a long time. The ruffed grouse is...

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When Snow Falls

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by Tom Keer Photography by Tim Flanigan The rain poured down for three straight days, and it wasn’t a mist or a pitter-patter on the tin roof. It was consistent, like the rinse cycle at a carwash, and the noise from a fire hose-worth of water on the metal echoed throughout the cabin. A faucet drip can be irritating, but the drone was maddening. Mercury hovered in the high 30s, and that was the only saving grace. But the winds were shifting, and that meant the temperatures would drop soon. When they went below freezing, there would be snow in the...

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24 Ways to Miss a Woodcock

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Respect for a gamebird born from the tribulations of crazy flight and thick cover. by Jay Hanson Originally published in Covers magazine – Spring 2019 We’re all introduced to bird hunting in various ways. If wealth is measured in long-haired bird dogs and access to an abundance of wild birds, some of us are born into fortune. Others were introduced into wingshooting later in life by being invited to a posh Dakota pheasant lodge, maybe a corporate shindig or by a fast-talking brother-in-law. In my neck of the woods, my dad and his cohorts made up a small circle of hunters that walked...

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Pennsylvania Wilds Upland Bird Hunt: The Ruffed Grouse and American Woodcock Society Celebrate the Upland Lifestyle

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Recapping the fun and fervor of the Upland Bird Hunt hosted annually in the Pennsylvania Wilds.

Upland hunting is a lifestyle. The conscious uplander is part hunter, conservationist, art lover, biologist, chef and storyteller. When people gather at the Ruffed Grouse Society’s Upland Bird Hunt (UBH) in the Pennsylvania Wilds, they celebrate that lifestyle, contribute to scientific research, and have a positive impact on the local community. 

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