Amen Randy. OSU's beating by Purdue has left a bad taste in my mouth for this season - but nothing a good Michigan ass-kicking won't fix. My 2 favorite teams are Ohio State and ANYONE that plays Michigan!
Birds were a little tough to find at first. Damn that's a big area. But basically when we started moving birds it was in a specific kind of cover and we continued to hunt this type the rest of the week. 3-4 year old aspen growth, small oak scrub, basically stuff that was clearcut 3-5 years ago and bordered bigger woods. We hunted the transition lines on ridges and fingers. We might go 3-4 hours without a flush, but once you found them... there were always several in the vicinity.
Even if Michigan grouse numbers are down - it's still grouse utopia compared to our dismal population here in Ohio.
