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How successful is upland game hunting in the mountains of NH and Maine? I've kicked up partridge a few times in the piney alpine areas near mountains while hiking. Does anyone hunt these areas regularly and successfully?
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If you've kicked up a few partridge on an area....and it's legal to hunt there......that's all the info you need. Hunt it. Partridge (aka grouse) don't move around too muchHow successful is upland game hunting in the mountains of NH and Maine? I've kicked up partridge a few times in the piney alpine areas near mountains while hiking. Does anyone hunt these areas regularly and successfully?
Grouse production here in MA is really bad, I'm lucky to flush one a year and I hunt a lot.
I think that the grouse production in Mass has been on the upswing the last year or so. I’ve seen multiple dead grouse on 91 the last year or so. Before that I haven’t seen one in many many years.
I stopped hunting them many years ago. You can’t hunt what isn’t there.
Bob
I'm surprised mass has a season on them they have been so rare.Ive seen a few on the roads myself.
I dont shoot grouse in MA either.
I'm surprised mass has a season on them they have been so rare.
In maine when I hunt up there we see a dozen or more for every mile of dirt road we drive down. I don't road hunt them like the Main hunters do.......just telling you they are EVERYWHERE on the logging roads up north central maine based on my trips up and down those roads to get to hunting spots. I don't expect them to be that prevalent to consider them not rare.....but......With a good dog and the right location, they are not rare. When I was hunting hard, we would take at least one grouse per hunt. That does not count the ones we missed.
I'm surprised mass has a season on them they have been so rare.