your weapon of choice for mountain grouse

[mtwarden]

No o/u or s/s purist here I've been using a small .22 revolver (S&W 317), but my grouse take could be better so just purchased a Ruger American Compact in .22LR, topping it with 4X Leupold/Talley Lightweights

What do you use?

 

[justinspicher]

Suppressed ruger 22/45

 

[BRTreedogs]

I just bought a Tikka T1x 22LR mounted a Nikon 4-16 I've had forever. Not sure that scopes gonna stay but probably.

My old 22mag is at the Smith rite now getting cut down to 17" and threaded.
Probably transfer my old Vx2 4x over to it in a set of Warne rings.

 

[slvrslngr]

JL Galef SS 20ga. But, I have a Browning Buckmark that I’m itching to take some grouse with.

 

[z987k]

Chiappa double badger .22LR over .410

 

[BAKPAKR]

Most of the grouse I have taken were with rubber bludgeon points while I was archery hunting for elk. I got three one day with a recurve - not as exciting as taking a bull but I was still proud of myself. Judo points make too much of a mess for me.

I have also shot several with hard cast bullets out of a 44 magnum revolver. If a bullet hit the breast, the damage wasn’t that much different than that created by a 22 hollow point.

 

[Brendan]

73# Hoyt, 520 grain arrows going 280 FPS. Borderline unethical, maybe I should step up to 80# limbs?

I like the G3 Small Game Head.

 

[orionsbrother]

Bow for me too.

 

[5MilesBack]

Bow, but I've pretty much given up grouse shooting unless I'm starving. "Maybe" if I'm on my way back to camp for lunch of dinner.

 

[Billy Goat]

Iron Will's.

 

[BRTreedogs]

No freaking way I'm flinging a $35 plus dollar arrow at one.
Im not rich.

 

[DerkPerk]

Bow. Judo with a fender washer behind it. Only shoot them on the ground. Either head shots or high back. Grouse stew at camp is clutch


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[5MilesBack]

No freaking way I'm flinging a $35 plus dollar arrow at one.
Im not rich.

Stop shooting $35+ arrows, and you might be........."richer".

 

[BRTreedogs]

Stop shooting $35+ arrows, and you might be........."richer".

An axis with brass insert, wrap and a broadhead is about $35 well I stand corrected $29-30 but still.

 

[Billy Goat]

Just make sure of what's beyond your target. I don't shoot them off branches.


Don't think I have lost an arrow yet to a grouse. Can't say the same for marmots.

 

[BRTreedogs]

I thought is was a sin to shoot birds unless they are in flight???

 

[5MilesBack]

An axis with brass insert, wrap and a broadhead is about $35 well I stand corrected $29-30 but still.

My Axis 300 with a 16gr HIT, fletching, and a FP with a washer behind it was about $6. I use it on rabbits too.

 

[Runningwater]

Recurve with blunt or old ruger single six - depending on what the prime quarry is.

 

[Porterka]

.22mag but I only shoot them to and from where I am hunting. I don’t carry a firearm when archery hunting and I don’t carry 2 rifles so the .22mag lives in the truck. Not shooting a broadhead tipped arrow at a grouse and not carrying a special arrow. Not a problem though I usually see 1-3 on the way in or out on a half day hunting.

 

[BRTreedogs]

My Axis 300 with a 16gr HIT, fletching, and a FP with a washer behind it was about $6. I use it on rabbits too.

Where do you buy them for that price Sir?
I'll take 2 dozen.
Last I checked an axis bare shaft is $10