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Opening Day Grouse Hunt (Part 2) · Bird Dogs and Big Game

• 0:20
  Tyce: Hey folks.
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  Tyce: Welcome back to the Bird Dog podcast.
• 0:22
  Tyce: This is part two of our grouse hunt opening day grouse hunt.
• 0:28
  Tyce: And, uh, we're all back in the truck now and headed down out of the mountains and we almost lost.
• 0:35
  Tyce: Ian put me there for a minute.
• 0:37
  Tyce: You had me in the first half, but we're good.
• 0:39
  Tyce: We did lose Ian.
• 0:41
  Tyce: We did lose Ian.
• 0:43
  Tyce: I always just went on a walkabout.
• 0:44
  Tyce: So let's, uh, let's talk about tips for listeners.
• 0:47
  Tyce: What should you do when you go grouse hunting in thick woods?
• 0:50
  Tyce: Hey, mark Onyx map.
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  Tyce: Mark the truck, everyone.
• 0:53
  Tyce: Mark OnX on the truck.
• 0:55
  Tyce: Everyone do it separately.
• 0:57
  Tyce: Don't trust Tyson direct so anybody can find it.
• 0:59
  Tyce: It's just a good tip is, uh, yeah, mark your truck when you leave on your Onyx maps.
• 1:05
  Tyce: If you have Onyx, um, especially if you go hunting with friends that you haven't been to that area, you're not familiar with that area.
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  Tyce: Um,'cause we were in really thick quakes and pines and, um, it was easy to get turned around.
• 1:17
  Tyce: So we did recover Ian, he was good.
• 1:21
  Tyce: he didn't, uh, He didn't die.
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  Tyce: We had to shoot the gut a couple times and honk the horn, but these guys were throwing me off, driving around just like a good homing pigeon.
• 1:29
  Tyce: He made it home, so he made it So Orland, have you now been dive virginized when it comes to grow hunting?
• 1:35
  Tyce: Yeah, he just, uh, first one just ground pounded him.
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  Tyce: I shot two today, so pretty awesome experience.
• 1:42
  Tyce: It's different hunting.
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  Tyce: Like just thick, nasty crap.
• 1:47
  Tyce: I mean, yeah, today wasn't ideal.
• 1:50
  Tyce: It's raining right now and started raining.
• 1:53
  Tyce: right when we pulled up here.
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  Tyce: So yeah, I mean, if you saw us all right, now everyone's wet from head to toe at Puddles.
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  Tyce: Jeff's not Jeff brought his rain jacket.
• 2:03
  Tyce: We didn't realize it was gonna rain today.
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  Tyce: Jeff's the adult here and uh, so we ended up with nine birds.
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  Tyce: Total in about a three.
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  Tyce: It was about three hour hunt roughly.
• 2:15
  Tyce: Sure.
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  Tyce: Call it three hours.
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  Tyce: So three, four hours.
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  Tyce: So it was pretty good, pretty good Action.
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  Tyce: We got in some cubbies so we kind of got in a big line, spread out and with.
• 2:23
  Tyce: In the grouse woods.
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  Tyce: It's kind of crazy'cause it's so thick.
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  Tyce: You gotta really talk to, um, your party and be able to yell back and forth and kind of stay in voice range.
• 2:32
  Tyce: 'cause those birds, they come up, they just go wherever.
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  Tyce: And last thing you want to do is, shoot someone.
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  Tyce: But Mike and I were kind of working together when we found the first group of birds.
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  Tyce: We only got, there were three in that, that came up.
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  Tyce: Mike's g s p, Hika got into'em and, uh, We knocked two down out of that group.
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  Tyce: And then what was the next group we got?
• 2:55
  Tyce: Oh, then we met up on a kind of, an avalanche chute type thing where the water had come down through and there were some willows and, on the edge of the willows, the tree line.
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  Tyce: We got into a covey.
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  Tyce: How many was that?
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  Tyce: I think we were all together.
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  Tyce: Three outta there.
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  Tyce: Is there, was there three, four?
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  Tyce: Was there four or five birds or something?
• 3:13
  Tyce: Yeah.
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  Tyce: So got in another group.
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  Tyce: Yeah, we got three birds out of that group and then, kept working down through the mountain in Orland.
• 3:22
  Tyce: You wanna tell us what you want into a group?
• 3:24
  Tyce: I mean, we just kept going through that mountain and then, I mean, we got up through into ravine and.
• 3:30
  Tyce: Um, it started getting really wet, raining and we're bushwalking through willows and, Ian and I and, uh, Ty met up and I looked under the tree and there's this, oh yeah, this stud grouse.
• 3:43
  Tyce: He was a male grouse just sitting there on the log, just hunkered up underneath the rain and so outta the rain until rain, until we got the dogs in there.
• 3:51
  Tyce: They were sniffing it out, pushed it out, and then I took a whiff and miss it was like 10 feet from me.
• 3:57
  Tyce: Quick shot you were going.
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  Tyce: 12 gauge.
• 4:00
  Tyce: Yeah, it would've been nothing.
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  Tyce: It was tactical.
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  Tyce: Nothing left.
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  Tyce: So good thing I didn't, and then we kind of just went up the hill and hunted a little bit more up in there.
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  Tyce: And then, uh, Ian just smoked him.
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  Tyce: So the old 20 gauge, it was good.
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  Tyce: Yeah.
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  Tyce: Oh, did you drop that one?
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  Tyce: Mm-hmm.
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  Tyce: Yep.
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  Tyce: Nice work.
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  Tyce: So just before that, we were working down along a river and one came out and kind of went back into the trees.
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  Tyce: I'm not sure if that was that one, that there was one just before that one that Orland was talking about.
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  Tyce: We got, but that one got away.
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  Tyce: How many do we think got away?
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  Tyce: Four or five maybe.
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  Tyce: Yeah.
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  Tyce: Total today.
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  Tyce: Probably at least four or five.
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  Tyce: Yeah, maybe at least four.
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  Tyce: And then Orland, you.
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  Tyce: Were working down and got into a, oh yeah, got a cve right?
• 4:40
  Tyce: Six or so, got down into a cubby and, um, there was probably six or seven of'em just staring at me as I'm tripping over logs and stuff.
• 4:48
  Tyce: But they ended up, started working up the hill back towards the guys, and I just started yelling, get over here, but we couldn't even hear you.
• 4:56
  Tyce: Yeah, The birds just kind of walked up the hill and I shot one and then, um, one flew over and.
• 5:02
  Tyce: We shot that one too, so yeah.
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  Tyce: Pretty good.
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  Tyce: Then there's another one with, we were working down in, and Mike, well one came up in front of you, Ika, and then Haika got a beautiful point on Juan, and, and we didn't get up there in time.
• 5:16
  Tyce: the bird wasn't having it and took off though, so.
• 5:21
  Tyce: Yeah, I think overall it was a good hunt.
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  Tyce: Um, tons of deadfall.
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  Tyce: There was a lot of trees that had fallen over.
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  Tyce: Um, Jeff was the only one to bring his jacket.
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  Tyce: Jeff, what do you have to say?
• 5:33
  Tyce: Any comments tell us your experience, your feelings on the grouse hunt this morning?
• 5:37
  Tyce: I'm happy to not have any injury that I can.
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  Tyce: Tell right now, I'll probably find a bunch of scrapes on my legs, but, um, I only fell a couple times.
• 5:47
  Tyce: It's fine.
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  Tyce: Uh, the dogs did really well.
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  Tyce: Surprised, only lost one for like 10 minutes, but then found her.
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  Tyce: But, uh, overall I'm pleased with how everything went.
• 5:59
  Tyce: Ian, what's your comments on opening day of grouse on 2023?
• 6:04
  Tyce: That was fun.
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  Tyce: Just a lot of hiking around, walk.
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  Tyce: Walking around tripping over trees.
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  Tyce: Yeah, it was, uh, eventful.
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  Tyce: It was good to see as many grass as we saw, so that was pretty nice.
• 6:16
  Tyce: Yeah.
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  Tyce: It sucks when you go up there and you've seen nothing.
• 6:18
  Tyce: Just going for a hike rather than a hunt.
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  Tyce: So I'm glad we got to hunt.
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  Tyce: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  Tyce: Mike, it's a good morning.
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  Tyce: That to Mike.
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  Tyce: There you go.
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  Tyce: It was a good morning.
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  Tyce: And given the conditions, lots of rain.
• 6:31
  Tyce: Yeah.
• 6:32
  Tyce: Everything's wet.
• 6:33
  Tyce: Um, I think we were fortunate to see as many birds as we did and shoot as many as we did.
• 6:38
  Tyce: Yeah.
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  Tyce: But, um, I think we need to get back up there when it's sunny.
• 6:41
  Tyce: When it's dry.
• 6:42
  Tyce: Yeah.
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  Tyce: And see what the bird numbers are really.
• 6:44
  Tyce: Cover was thick ground, was slick.
• 6:48
  Tyce: All of us fell.
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  Tyce: Probably all of us fell several times.
• 6:51
  Tyce: Multiple times.
• 6:52
  Tyce: Yeah.
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  Tyce: Dog work was really good.
• 6:54
  Tyce: Yeah, it's always fun watching those dogs run.
• 6:56
  Tyce: I love watching just the energy of the, short hairs.
• 7:00
  Tyce: Yeah.
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  Tyce: And they just have fun.
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  Tyce: Yeah.
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  Tyce: Yeah, I think overall ties it was good.
• 7:04
  Tyce: Yeah.
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  Tyce: I think just, from the bird count, from what we were seeing, it's looking good so far, at least in this little pocket that we went into.
• 7:11
  Tyce: I hadn't hunted it for a couple years and always had found birds.
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  Tyce: But like Mike was saying, I think with this rain, And to be able to knock nine birds out in a few hours, that's a pretty good hunt.
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  Tyce: I think a lot of the birds were really hunkered down in the trees in the real thick cover to stay dry.
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  Tyce: So anyhow, folks, that's part two.
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  Tyce: Thanks for listening.
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  Tyce: Get out there, get your dogs out.
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  Tyce: We had a bunch of young dogs out today and there was their first time jumping, getting in that type of cover.
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  Tyce: So it's a little bit of a learning experience, but every time you get your dog out, they're just gonna get better and better.
• 7:45
  Tyce: Haika.
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  Tyce: She's the oldest dog here, the G S P, and it was her first grouse hunt, but she had some points and just her experience really proved It pays off to get your dog on birds.
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  Tyce: So good luck hunting the hunts have started.
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  Tyce: It's a great time of year to be out in outdoors and in the mountains, and we'll see you on the next show.