If you are hunting grouse without a dog, the method to receiving success is not difficult in practice. While the flushes are few and far in between, there is a method to the madness.
When approaching likely grouse habitat, slow your pace. Walk about ten yards and pause for a minute, then repeat. Walk about ten to fifteen yards and stop. If a bird is present, your pause will unnerve them and they will flush. More times than not, you will hear the flush well before seeing the bird. But few flushes occur while you are walking; birds will set and let you walk by them. Stop and they explode.
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