First Grouse

Traveled up north today with the crew and had a great morning. I put Coco on the ground first and she did a nice job, scoring on a grouse after about 5 minutes, and another one around 50 minutes. Funnest part of trip was the next shift, I ran Roxxy, who is Coco's barely 5 month old daughter, with one of Dave's shooting dogs. This was her first time in the woods pretty much other than some walks in the woods by my house which don't hold birds, and she ended up pointing 3 grouse. The first one was great, I saw her start to work a bird, then slam on point, and stand there about 20 seconds, then the grouse started moving a little bit in front of her where she could see it, and she took it for a ride out of the county. Put a big smile on my face, and boy did it get her fired up! Hopefully we can get some birds shot for her in a couple of weeks, planning on a long weekend up to the Northwest Lower for the season opener. I put Mo down next and it started to pour after about 10 minutes so that ended the trip, but still had a good time.