My high expectations in pounding my favorite coverts around Mcgrath were met with two days of walking resulting in very few flushes. In the good years (which they say are beginning now) I can typically put 10-30 birds up in a day of walking quality cover. I flushed two grouse on Saturday. I flushed six birds on Sunday, including 2 woodcock. I was wondering prior to my weekend trip why everyone was so consumed with low bird numbers…well, I quickly found out. I attribute the phenomenon two ways, either the volunteers working the drumming routes need new batteries in their hearing aids -or- the MN DNR really wanted to sell a large amount of small game licenses by skewing the drumming count numbers.
October 15, 2007 at 2:20 am
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