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- Ruffed Grouse & Woodcock hunting this time of year brings challenges of warm weather and thick cover that can make getting shots on birds a humbling experience. Join us for a few days of hunting as we chase the king in early October. Before this trip I picked up a new shotgun to hunt with this fall, a Weatherby Orion Side by Side. At the end of the video I talk more about the new scatter gun, the chokes I'm using and the ammo I'm shooting this time of year!
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nice hunt, i’m 13 and killed my first pheasant Saturday over my 2 year old brittany.
Awesome to hear - congrats!
Hopefully not in Minnesota it’s not open yet….
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This is so great! It's cool to see you hunting with your wife! My wife has always loved when I bring home Duskies when I'm up archery hunting here in Colorado, so I finally convinced her to get a bird dog, and she's stoked to join me for upland hunting now! It's the best.
Awesome to hear man. The dog is what ties it all together! Enjoy your time in the woods this fall, and best of luck to you guys!
Your videos definitely help with the flush withdrawal after the season closes. Love your videos keep posting man
Appreciate that man, thanks for following along!
Aspen was our best Golden's name too! Absolutely the best pheasant dog I've ever seen! Your woods are way to tight for us; we're in Washington, east of the Cascade crest, so it's much more open-ponderosa pines and such. Blue grouse country. Orion's a nice gun, but a little long for my tastes. I do like the ability to change chokes though. My Uplander's F& F, but as I said, it's a lot more open where I hunt. I use a .410, and I'll load with #8s on one tube, and 71/2 or 6's in the other.
I'm sure you've shared many good memories with Aspen! Thanks for the comment and best of luck out there this season!
Great video and always love watching the dog work. Enjoyed the gun review.
Thank you! Been able to make it out yet this year?
@@UplanderLifestyle -Yes- had some success just waiting for this wind and rain to push through so I can hit it again. Thanks for asking.
I have shot a sis for many many years. I truly love them. 28" is a great choice. I don't especially like extractors as it takes my eye off of where the bird is or was. I like both double or single triggers. Double triggers I understand are a bit more reliable. I also prefer English style stock. I shoot a Winchester 23. In the past owned a Beretta Model 410E. Your videos are great and your dogs are wonderful. I live in the south west but have family in or near Traverse city Mi. Quail is the game here as you know.
I can really see why a dedicated quail hunter would prefer ejectors! A lot of times parts of the covey are taking off at different times. Really don’t have that when ruff grouse or even pheasant hunting. Best of luck this year, I know your guys season is getting ready to open shortly!
12 days and counting. We had much rain and the amount of birds is be crazy! I also had a CZ Bobwhite for awhile and loved it. Very reasonable and a pleasure to shoot. I picked up a Benelli Montefeltro this year and looking forward to shooting it. Except looking for shell casings. Have a great season and I look forward to your video's.@@UplanderLifestyle
Loved watching this man! And I’m only a little jealous lol
Appreciate it dude! Thanks for following along 👍🏻
You do a great job with the videos and I love to watch your Britts especially on ruffed grouse and pheasant. The new hoodies are very nice as well.
I appreciate the comment and the support! Good luck this season 👍🏻
Good to see a few birds. Headed back to MI end of the week, hope to get a few myself. Agree 100% on shells, Grouse are such a delicate bird it doesn't take much to bring them down. Give me more shot every time!! Another reason I like an O/U or side by side, they tend to be a little shorter than a pump or semi auto, easier to swing through all the brush.
Good luck man! It looks like things are finally cooling down. Maybe a little bit of rain here and there, but typical for this time of year. Should be a good few weeks of hunting ahead of us! At least the bugs will be gone 😮💨
Great stuff Cliff and Bonnie, that was fun. I too am swinging a new SxS this season, just plain more fun! Can't wait to get in the woods again, opener for us was hot and green.
Thanks man! I think some cooler weather has finally arrived 👍🏻 best is yet to come!
Love it man. Glad Bonnie is coming along. I notice you are stealing her shots tho 😂
Sometimes the birds just do what they wanna do 🤣 thanks man!
Good doggies!
@@UplanderLifestyle suuuuuureeee blame the birds. I do the same thing when I miss.
Nice video... Love the double triggers; biggest advantage is immediate barrel selection when hunting more open ground (i.e. pheasant jumps up long, go right to the tighter choke with bigger shot). Me... Especially for upland hunting, I vastly prefer ejectors; Hold my hand over the chamber, shells pop right into my hand and I can load quicker.
Yes, great point on the double triggers! Thanks for the comment, good luck this season 👍🏻
I was out in the woods last Friday myself. I bagged my fastest limit ever! I got six birds in 4.5 hours. I started the season by bagging two grouse in one shot! I saw a total of 20 grouse (all ruffed) and even flushed one woodcock!
BTW, your dogs are awesome!
That's a great day of hunting! Congrats on your success. Thanks for following along 👍🏻
another great video! got me pumped to go shoot grouse. Love the gun review also, been looking at different SXS and this was very informative.
Thanks a lot, great to hear! Best of luck this season 👍🏻
Great content as usual. Always good to see people hubting together. Thats a neat gun, i never knew they made SxS with changeable choke tubes
Thanks man 👍🏻The SXS is a new addition to their line, just came out this past August.
Great video as always!! Keep them coming!
Appreciated the gun and choke review
Great to hear, thanks for the comment!
Glad to see you take the wife out, and great video footage.
Thanks man 👍🏻 we try to make it out a time or two together during the season!
I'm a fan of the extractors as well on my SxS. Not as flashy as ejectors but the shells don't get launched into Narnia when I'm in thick brush.
I’m right there with ya! Thanks for the comment and following along 👍🏻
Love your videos..it’s funny how shotguns are so personal preference…I grouse hunt a lot and I don’t want a gun longer than 45 inches and prefers closer to 5 1/2 pounds …I really enjoyed to hear what you like and why
Appreciate that and the comment man! I’ve tried some of the sub 6 pound guns before and I just can not shoot with them! I’ll slowly keep working that direction and see how it goes lol. I definitely get the advantage of the shorter and lighter gun in the grouse woods. Best of luck man 👍🏻
Nice video as always!!! I was invited to grouse hunt in Park Falls Wisconsin a week ago but had to turn it down.😢 I hope to make it north next season and get me some birds. That’s a nice looking shotgun for that price. Have a great season!!
Thank you! The trip up is definitely worth it 👍🏻
Nice hunt bro. I dig the new Weatherby. I prefer my autoloader over my side by side or my over under. God Bless.
Thanks man! That’s what makes scatter guns fun, you get you pick your flavor, and can mix it up from time to time as well 👍🏻
I really enjoyed your video. Love watching your dogs work. I like the sight picture that you get down a side-by-side as well. But as it turns out my browning Citoris are over under and seem to be the ones I grab when I go out the door. I have a 12 gauge sporting hunter with a 28 inch barrel but my favorite Grouse gun is an upland special in 20 gauge with a 24 inch barrel. It has an English stock just like your Weatherby. I have to disagree with you on some of the shot size thing. Not completely. But the bit about smaller shot making it through leaves. What pushes shot through leaves is energy and larger shot has more energy at the same speed than smaller pellets. For the same reason that you shoot pheasants with number six shot. Heavier shot penetrates better, whether it's pheasants or leaves. On the other hand. I completely agree with you that Grouse and Woodcock are fairly fragile birds and you don't need a lot of power when you hit them. But they are smaller birds and they are fast so what you do need is a shot pattern that doesn't have holes in it. I definitely go with 7 1/2's or eights for Grouse and Woodcock. Once again, I really enjoyed your video and I love watching you shoot.
Right on! Great to hear from you, I appreciate the comment 👍🏻 we’ll agree to disagree on the shot size. Larger shot has great energy before it hits its target, absolutely, more than smaller shot does. But we’re talking about the energy that the shot has left after it goes through something. Physics says the larger shot will loose more energy after going through something than a smaller shot, based on surface area. So yes, lager shot will impact harder on its first target, but will have less energy going through something towards the next one than smaller size will. I’ll take the shot that has more energy to hit an object after it’s been through foliage, which smaller shot produces. Thanks again for following along! Best of luck this season 👍🏻
Oh yeah, this video got me pumped up. Great work!
Thanks a lot! How’d your sharpie trip go?
@UplanderLifestyle the trip was great, evidently I didn't do enough homework ahead of time though. Thanks for asking.
Yidiz makes that gun for weatherby I believe.
Yes, they do.
Great gun and setup.
Thanks for following along!
Great video we're heading grouse and woodcock hunting for 10 days next week I have a liver and white Brittany and my buddy has an English setter.
That’s gonna be a good stretch of hunting! Best of luck man. It’s cooled down finally!
@@UplanderLifestyle thank you we're going to try the bacus creek gem unit
Hunting birds with dogs is something I have little experience in. Where I am from, most do all of their grouse hunting riding trails and driving roads. is the density of grouse in your area the reason why our hunting strategies are different? Or do road/trail hunters make up the majority of grouse hunters where you are from as well?
Great video Cliff. I noticed you were not running bells on the dogs. Is that because you are feeling that you get better and closer points on grouse? Not alarming the birds as much?
Definitely! I've noticed with any upland bird, silence makes a difference.
Thanks a lot! I do like the dogs being silent without the bells. The biggest thing is I just got tired of listening to the bell. After a day of hunting all I hear in my head for the next 12 hours is that bell ringing, I can only image what happens to my dogs hearing because of it. They respond much faster to me when they don’t have a bell on, probably because they can hear me clearly.
Hi, Thank you for an excellent understanding of the rough grouse, which would be the equivalent of woodcock hunting in Europe.
I would like to help you out regarding using a s/s with proper snap shooting.
1- Barrels are kept level at all times, there is no rising, in ONE move the stock is at our shoulder, and as our left thumb is pointing in the direction we want, we fire immediately. There is no looking. it is done. This is the basis of the EJ Churchill method , who wrote "Game Shooting" you simply lean in to the stock, with your weight on your left leg. Keep both eyes open.
2-You should not even be aware of the rib ,or the bead, to use as a sight, you left thumb has already done that for you. So you are too high every time. For instinct shooting your eyes need to be ONLY on the bird. Try on a large cardboard at 30 yards.
3-Look for an AYA xxv 12G s/s (25" barrels) designed by- EJ Churchill for woodcock! Spanish, very well designed, made. Churchill rib.Small money used, nowdays. Get it fitted. For all game.
4--Consider using some cartridges on cardboard to see how far out your gunfit is, and read up on it. Eye dominance, stock cast etc.
5- Becasse- see tube videos in France with setters hunting woodcock (becasse). Some use a Baby Bretton 12g, others 26" s/s 12G.
Hope this helps, excellent dog, not overtrained, good bond.Bye.
I shoot an over under but now I need a side by side. The view to the bead looks much more intuitive on a sxs.
I didn’t think it would be an easy transition for me when I first started shooting one. But your eyes are just naturally drawn to the bead centered between the two barrels, making it really fast to get on target. Good luck out there 👍🏻
Very impressed with your Bird hunting.
Question if you don't mind, What what dog breeds are yeti and Amber?
Thank you.
Thank you! They are all Brittany’s.
Awesome video. I’m heading up to the UP next week to chase some birds. I know you’ve been out west chasing prairie birds but wondering how you feel ruffed numbers are this year?
For the area I was hunting, I would say bird numbers were average and about what I would expect. I’ve heard good things for most areas. I don’t think it’s going to be a banner year, but there’s definitely birds around. Best of luck up there man 👍🏻
Are you in Michigan? Sure looks familiar
Which brand of choke tube are you using?
The factory tubes that come with the gun.
Great footage as usual! Curious, what breed of dogs are you hunting with?
Thank you! They are Brittany’s 👍🏻
Collars country
Keep up the awesome vids!! Love seeing the dogs work! Also have you tried the CZ Bobwhite shotgun?
Thanks a lot man! I have not had my hands on the Bobwhite.
Who’s the manufacturer of those choke tubes?
They are the manufacturer stock tubes that come with the gun.
Curious on your GPS setup- is that a Garmin Instinct and is it linked to your dog’s tracking collar?
Yes Garmin instinct watch, which is connected to my Astro 430 GPS handheld that’s tracking my dogs wearing Garmin T5 mini tracking collars.
Will the garmin alpha work
With the garmin fenix?
@@mauriciomontero2039 yes, all Garmin products will connect to each other.
I'm missing the north woods!!
And im missing the prairie while getting whipped in the ears by sticks! 🤣
@@UplanderLifestyle I'll pass on that! lol
Can you do a video using bells.
I just finished up a week of hunting and will have two more grouse hunting videos coming over the next week. In the second one I will be talking about using a bell vs not using one, pros and cons etc. thanks!
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Thank you 👍🏻👍🏻
Not a fan of the big gold script on the Side of the action otherwise looks like a cool gun
I can see why some would think that. I think the logo is classy enough to make it work. Thanks for the comment 👍🏻