Hey Guys,

The forest grouse season just opened here in utah and i'm eager to go out and get a few of them. I've killed several in my lifetime but it's just been while i'm out hunting elk or deer and i come across one or two, so i shoot em and eat them for dinner that night. However, I've never just hunted for grouse before and i'd like to this year. But i'm not really sure where to look to find them. Like i said, i just happen upon them while hunting big game in the forests. So i'm curious to know if anyone has any tips for me on what kind of habitat to look for to find forest grouse. Do they stay near water? Are they only in the pines, or do they hang in aspens too. Do they like haevy brush? or do they like more open meadows? I don't have a dog, so I'm just lookin to take my little brother out and just walk the woods and hope to find some forest grouse. Any tip would be helpful. Thanks!!!

i think an aspen is the same as a poplar tree and that's where we spend most of our time in the polars near a stream. let me knw how you do and good luck

i live in MN and i will find them all over from swamps to fields but the most birds we see are on gravel roads with clover growning on them. so i would try the edges of a field or maby right a long a swamp edge or drive some back raods. hope that i was able to help
good luck

I also live in MN and gravel roads with clover on them are ideal. Basically any backwoods road and trails are good places to start. I find them a lot near pines as well as they tend to fly into them when jumped.

MNhunter292 - Where do you live? I live in Victoria near the cities but we have a place up near Bemidji where I do most of my grouse hunting. Do you do any pheasant hunting?