Shooting grouse wouldn't be that hard. It's shooting through all that brush and trees that would make it tough for me. I hope I can take my dog out next year to hunt. Thanks for sharing.
Shooting grouse through the brush and trees is only half the battle. And naturally, it does get a bit easier in late Fall after the leaves drop and visibility improves. What makes hitting Ruffed Grouse especially challenging is the way they twist and turn while flying quickly through the trees, grapevines, and brush. They also seem to have a knack for making their noisy flush at the least opportune time, such as while you are climbing over a felled tree branch in a logged out area, or trying to extricate yourself from briars and multiflora rose, etc.
They might be extinct if they flew in a nearly perfectly predictable trajectory like clay targets. But they don't.
