I didn't read in the American anywhere where it was stated that Mr Cheney was not going to eat his game. Personally, I would like to send him a list of lawyers from Michigan that I would like him to go shooting with. But i guess that he probably has a list of his own. (Hee! Hee!)
Aside from that, I read that Mr Cheney was using a 28 ga shotgun. Granted that a pat is just a little bigger than a robin, but that shotgun is just a little bigger than a 410. Not much of a pattern in those shotguns for shooting 30 plus feet. I can successfully bring down a pheasant with a 410 Mossberg, but a pheasant is slower than a grouse. So I used to bring pheasants down at a closer distance.
For grouse, I use my trusty 12 ga single shot. If I miss with that shotgun, I figure that the bird was smarter than me and deserved to get away. I stopped using my Stevenson humpback while grouse hunting. I used up too much ammo and was too heavy to carry for 10 hours of hunting. One year, I got two grouse but used up almost three boxes of shells. I never pretended to be a good shot, but I do hunt some rough country filled with prickly crab apple and thick berry bushes. The grouse flush too far out in the more open oak stands. But I have fun and I do eat what I kill. Grouse breast tastes great after boiled in onion soup in the field after a hunt.
Big Norm
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