While scouting for mountain goats outside of Ketchikan, AK Steve heard the beckoning springtime "hoot" of the Sooty grouse. He put forth a great effort hunting them in 2014 and left perplexed. Steve is back and has enlisted Barbara Gabier,...See moreWhile scouting for mountain goats outside of Ketchikan, AK Steve heard the beckoning springtime "hoot" of the Sooty grouse. He put forth a great effort hunting them in 2014 and left perplexed. Steve is back and has enlisted Barbara Gabier, a friend of a friend and passionate Sooty grouse hunter, to show him the ropes. As they start their hunt Steve recalls the trials and errors of his first attempt at Sooty grouse hunting. It's exhaustive, but through it all Steve finds a moment he describes as "hunting bliss."
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