Shooting grouse with large caliber rifle?

[hunterbobthebuilder]

Not even sure if this is legal but my gramps always told me your not a real hunter till you can take a grouses head off with a large caliber rifle. Anyone else do this when then don't have a shot gun or 22 handy ?

[1899b]

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[TheLegend]

Waste. Must be awfully desperate if your going to shoot a grouse with a 300 winnie or something like that.

[1899b]

Aint no thang but a grouses wing!!!

Originally Posted by 1899b

[elkhunter11]

It's legal in Alberta, but neither myself or my hunting partners shoot grouse when we are hunting big game.

[hunterbobthebuilder]

Originally Posted by TheLegend

Waste. Must be awfully desperate if your going to shoot a grouse with a 300 winnie or something like that.

Not sure where the waste would come from if your taking there head off ? Do you eat the eye balls or something ?

[1899b]

Originally Posted by elkhunter11

It's legal in Alberta, but neither myself or my hunting partners shoot grouse when we are hunting big game.

When the tags are filled i do...

[Okotokian]

Asked myself this exact question yesterday morning as I looked at a fat grouse in a tree, having my .270 in my hands... figured a head shot was entirely do-able.

[TheLegend]

Originally Posted by hunterbobthebuilder

Not sure where the waste would come from if your taking there head off ? Do you eat the eye balls or something ?

Wasting your bullets.

[elkhunter11]

When the tags are filled i do...

When the tags are all filled, you shouldn't still be hunting big game.

[NIKON]

[hunterbobthebuilder]

Originally Posted by TheLegend

Wasting your bullets.

Only need one bullet for a big game correct what's the max amount of tags you can get at once 4? Or 5? So maybe tops 8 bullets needed so there's 20 in a box 20-8=12 where's the wasting if your eating?

[1899b]

Originally Posted by elkhunter11

When the tags are all filled, you shouldn't still be hunting big game.

[Richard B.]

Cast bullet loads work well for small game -

I once shot a grouse with a .30-06 and my plan was to take off it's head but as I squeezed off it decided to fly and my bullet struck the grouse in mid-body and flight.

There was a very spectacular explosion of feathers and we did manage to recover one wing.

[catnthehat]

Some old timers would ague thsat you are not a hunter unless you can shoot them on the wing while they are flying through the poplars and jack pines!
Cat

[riden]

Fill your boots if you want to, lots of people do it and it is perfectly acceptable.

If you feel you can do it with little chance of meat loss, shoot away and have fun.

But if you use a shottie when they are grounded, we're fighting

[catnthehat]

Originally Posted by riden

Fill your boots if you want to, lots of people do it and it is perfectly acceptable.

If you feel you can do it with little chance of meat loss, shoot away and have fun.

But if you use a shottie when they are grounded, we're fighting

I know quite a few guys who have no peobloems taking head shots n grouse, and they do it quite often!
We used to take the muzzle loading rifles out with the sole purpose of grouse hunting!
Cat

[TheLegend]

Originally Posted by hunterbobthebuilder

Only need one bullet for a big game correct what's the max amount of tags you can get at once 4? Or 5? So maybe tops 8 bullets needed so there's 20 in a box 20-8=12 where's the wasting if your eating?

Your not accounting for misses which will always happen. Lol just having fun

[TheLegend]

Originally Posted by catnthehat

Some old timers would ague thsat you are not a hunter unless you can shoot them on the wing while they are flying through the poplars and jack pines!
Cat

[TheLegend]

Originally Posted by elkhunter11

when the tags are all filled, you shouldn't still be hunting big game.:sha_sarcasticlol:

nailed it

[1899b]

Originally Posted by TheLegend

nailed it

Learn about squib loads possibly fellas...... IMR Trailboss with a hardcast bullet gives me a dead on sight in at 25 yards.

[duffy4]

I have shot a few heads off, grouse and a ptarmigan with my big rifle.

One grouse I hit a little low and the top of the breast meat was sort of a jelly like consistency.

I believe it was the "energy in the bullet transmitting shock" to the adjacent meat.

I apologize in advance if that comment derails this thread onto a bullet performance tangent.

[Andrzej]

My best ever Sharptail shot was at 107 y with 140 gr TSX out of 7 STW...
cut the neck half way through....I am 3" high on 100y with all my rifles so I aimed at the base of neck...

As to taking head off it was 10 y 338 Win Mag 225 Barnes TTSX.

[Attilathecanuk]

Originally Posted by hunterbobthebuilder

Not even sure if this is legal but my gramps always told me your not a real hunter till you can take a grouses head off with a large caliber rifle. Anyone else do this when then don't have a shot gun or 22 handy ?

did it on Sunday with my hunting buddy and brand new 7mmRem Mag 11/111!!

[Okotokian]

Originally Posted by duffy4

I have shot a few heads off, grouse and a ptarmigan with my big rifle.

No problem with that, as long as they are on the ground. In my case, with bird in a tree, I was thinking "this bullet is going to go and go and go... god knows where. Pass".

[Big Daddy Badger]

Originally Posted by riden

But if you use a shottie when they are grounded, we're fighting

And why is that?

[houndsmen]

Originally Posted by TheLegend

Waste. Must be awfully desperate if your going to shoot a grouse with a 300 winnie or something like that.

Do terms like "300 winnie" bother anyone else, just curious?

[killer18]

Originally Posted by 1899b

When the tags are filled i do...

please stop hunting

[Bigwoodsman]

I've shot grouse this way in the past, not often but I have done it. Taken the head right off of one. One other grouse fell over never had a mark on it. The shot was less then 10 yards, not sure what stunned the other, might been muzzle blast, or the repercussion of the hit, not sure but it was stunned, picked it up and had to dispatch it by hand.

BW

[Walleyes]

Originally Posted by killer18

please stop hunting

Why ??? theres wolf, theres coyote, theres grouse, heck when one hunt is over the next starts. Stay out there as long as you can..