Ruffed Grouse 1915 Lebanon, PA

[jeff of pa]

Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 11 Dec. 1915



https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...n+pa&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

 

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[Kray Gelder]

Do you suppose they cleaned and ate all those birds? If all the grouse in Pa. had been rounded up for these fellas, do you suppose they would have shot them all? Good thing we have limits today.

 

[jeff of pa]

LOL Must have had a Picnic.
I Don't remember seeing a Grouse since I was maybe a Teen '70's
but I'd imagine it's just their habitat is probably not in the mining zones.
probably more around the farms

 

[Joe-Dirt]

And you wonder why we find all those shotgun head stamps. I have so many, I’m making a display out of them.

Look at the dog, he looks beat!!!!!!!!

 

[Kray Gelder]

I cleaned 4 limits of grouse once, that's 12 birds, back in 1979. I was cleaning them, because my three hunting "buddies" decided to celebrate getting their limits by stopping at the tavern, and they were now on their lips. It took quite awhile, and kind of killed my appetite for grouse. They went in the freezer.

 

[civilman1]

They are a delicious eating bird. Like Kray said,thank God we have limits on them today......If you can find them.

 

[releventchair]

Following logging there was a flush of second growth and prime habitat in multiple states. Partridge do migrate to some extent depending on region ,though some tough out winter in the right habitat.
Often using white pines or similar dense evergreens for roosting/cover in real cold conditions, and browsing aspen buds and other stuff when off roosts.

I on't know when market hunting ended in Pa. and modern game rules became established , but partridge were often well received in towns and cities. Elsewhere at least...