The Grouse Chronicles

By JEFF LUNDFor the Capital City Weekly“Why’d you shoot the fork?”“Don, there were so many horns I just chose a body.”Thus, my first ever deer was a tall 2x2 rather than one of the three 4-point bucks that were in the same group. I saw horns and panicked.I’m glad it worked out the way it did because if my first ever deer had been a 4-point, I would have had nowhere to go. You earn a 4-point, you don’t get one on day one.I like having success proportional to time and effort, though it is nice to catch a break once in a while.I have discussed my desire over the past month to find a hooting grouse and make it dinner but I was way too early in the season. Patience would bring mating season.Now, it’s primetime and when I heard my first hoot of the spring, I gave chase.See column at:http://juneauempire.com/capitalcityweekly/ccw-columns/2018-04-24/stalking-success