It was no ordinary outing, either – we were participating in the 2024 National Grouse and Woodcock Hunt organized by the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society. First held in 1982 ...

As migratory birds, woodcock will seem to magically appear in a cover and be gone as suddenly as the came, as if to make sue no one takes them for granted. On a tough day of grouse hunting ...

Only a small minority of Minnesota women chase ducks, pheasants, grouse and woodcock, in part because deer hunting has replaced small game hunting as the state’s entry-level field sport.

Woodcock Walk on Thursday ... More info. Winter’s End Bug Hunt on Saturday, March 23 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Chamberlain Reynolds Memorial Forest in Center Harbor. More info.

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – There was no warning. After 45 minutes of squeezing between, limboing under and stepping over aspen trunks and hearing only the sound of leaves crunching underfoot, the air ...