Grouse

[bucknut]

What heads do you guys out west have the best luck with. The area I'm going elk hunting next week is supposed to have a good grouse population and I love to eat em'.  I've used judos before with so so performance. Just wondering what you think works best.

Thanks, John

[Steve Clandinin]

Hey John,for years I used regular blunts,now I Use hexheads and really like them,my broad heads weigh 175 grains and screw in hexheads also come in 175.there a lot easier getting in and out of quivers than Judo’s.

[Charlie Lamb]

It kinda depends on the weight bow you're shooting and the species of grouse. A 50ish recurve and ruffed grouse you should be good with just about anything. For the bigger blues I'd consider an old broadhead like a Bodkin.

[bucknut]

I’ll be using a 55# recurve for blues. I thought about some old snuffers but I do have some hex heads, judos and small game thumpers. 
Thanks

[-Zor]

I’ll have VPA small game thumpers on my grouse arrows. Six days til elk camp and grouse are sounding tasty.

[LBR]

Hex-heads, VPA's, or old broadheads.  Only grouse I've ever shot were spruce grouse.  I watched one take a solid shot to the breast from a 65# longbow with a 600+ grain arrow and a rubber blunt.  The bird fell a few feet then righted itself and flew off.  Several birds were lost to rubber blunts and judos and 60+# bows.  I hit one in the head with a rubber blunt from a 66# longbow.  Thought I took it's head off, I had to chase it down.  Incredibly tough birds in my limited experience.

[Broken Arrows]

VPA for me. I am using a 60# Toelke Pika If you can shoot them in then back they don't go far.

[GCook]

Cheap broadheads work best on them.

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[old_goat2]

Just shoot em in the head like my wife and it don't matter which head you use! We use old broadheads or VPA Blunts, I just ordered some of those Forge Converta Blunts from Three Rivers, will hopefully see how they work soon!

[Walt Francis]

I use the same broadhead I’m using for elk and deer.  When I first started hunting a couple of blues flew away with my judo tipped arrows and have used broad-heads since.

[onemississipp]

Just shoot em in the head like my wife and it don't matter which head you use! We use old broadheads or VPA Blunts, I just ordered some of those Forge Converta Blunts from Three Rivers, will hopefully see how they work soon!

That’s the way to do it!



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[Machino]

I use cheap broad heads and file three grooves in each side with a chainsaw file to make it a little more deadly.  I have a ton of eclipse that seem to work great.  I was tired of sticking blues and not putting them down.  The hit to kill ratio is pretty much 100 for me now. 

[Tim Finley]

I think the hex head would be just about the best although I've never used it . I
ve shot them with blunts , judo heads and broadheads and I think the most I have shot was with a rubber blunt I guess I was just lucky cause I never had one that didn't just drop dead on impact .I don't care for a judo  as a close miss can rip an animal open with the wires and they escape .
  They are sure good to eat cooked up in a nice gravy with mushrooms , celery and onions and served on a bed of rice .

[pavan]

For pheasants, I try to use free three blade hi-precisions, but last year the 3 Rivers Hammers worked good for me.  When i lived out east I used just plain blunts on ruffed grouse with fairly heavy bows, I didn't lose any that i hit, but the arrows did penetrate through them and i did not hit any of the fliers. 

[ProAlpine]

Small Game Thumpers! Don't risk damaging your well sharpened Elk/Deer broadhead on a miss, plus a good strategy on a treed grouse is to line up the trunk of the tree behind the bird so if you do miss your arrow doesn't go into orbit! Do that with a broadhead and it'll be stuck in the tree...

[TooManyHobbies]

I've only shot one spruce grouse, so not a lot of experience. I put a wing nut, wings forward, behind a field point. I thought it was pretty devastating out of my 50lb Super Kodiak.

[bucknut]

Thanks for the input fellas. I'll give a report and hopefully some pics when I return. With any luck maybe some Elk pics too.

John

[fnshtr]

John,
We used hex heads and went for head shots or in the back as the spruce grouse ambled off. We ate plenty in both Montana and Colorado. Early morning and late evening they were tougher to approach, but early afternoon they seem sluggish and unwilling to fly.

Good luck on your hunt. Please do share some pics with us!