The real action on this mid-September hunt began in a nearby tree row along two stubble fields of harvested grain. One sharptail after another flushed, interspersed by the rise of two more coveys of ...

EAR NEW TOWN, N.D. -- The first sharptail flushed just four minutes after we had begun hunting. One minute later, a covey of Hungarian partridges burst into flight, filling the air with their ...

EASTERN MONTANA - My hunting partners drop me off near a field of wheat stubble with the yellow dog. Their pickup accelerates up the road, leaving a plume of white dust behind. They'll pick me up in ...

Nebraska has a couple of unique game animals to offer hunters. Those animals are the prairie chicken and sharp-tailed grouse. The wide open expanse of tall grass prairie that Nebraska still offers in ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- In 1909, William Leon Dawson published the first Birds of Washington and wrote of the sharp-tailed grouse: “In the Yakima country twenty five years ago it was no uncommon sight to see ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks reminds hunters to be extra careful to identify grouse while in the field. Hunting sharp-tailed grouse is prohibited. FWP biologists and conservation ...

With the sharptail grouse season opening in North Dakota in just a couple of weeks it seems an appropriate time for this story from my file of Meals –To Be Forgotten. I was hunting southwest of Mandan ...

BILLINGS – Finding a sharp-tailed grouse on its nest is no easy task, even when the hens are collared with tracking devices. Jason Hanlon found that out this spring as he attempted to locate 10 ...

Sep. 6—Spring counts of sharp-tailed grouse in North Dakota were down 13% statewide from 2024, and it appears production wasn't good enough to offset the losses. According to Jesse Kolar, upland game ...

The entertaining springtime ritual of male sharp-tailed grouse twirling, nodding and strutting their stuff on the prairie to impress the ladies isn't as common a sight in Wisconsin as it used to be.