This is the first episode of The Flush I've seen. Ptarmigan hunt is on the bucket list. For what it's worth, "species" is both plural and singular for a taxonomic group. "Specie" refers to money in the form of coin.
Thank you for a great show. I'm heading to Colorado in September '23 for my first dusky grouse hunt and have learned that there may be ptarmigan above me. I plan to take at least a day to explore the high country for a ptarmigan!
Great episode guys. Great scenery, great effort, and great dog work. The lack of birds on the ground is not detrimental. It's not about birds on the ground.
This is my backyard. I’ve seen ptarmigan in the same places every summer for years, come fall not a feather. Dusky grouse are my dogs very favorite and his specialty, but a boomer is a close second. The high country is always beautiful and entirely exhausting.
I have gone hunting for Ptarmigan here in CO exactly once. Hiked a few miles to get above the tree line, then promptly ran right into a covey sitting on the ground after less than a mile of hunting. I don't have a dog so I have to take what I can get, and I got my limit right then. Finding all 3 took longer than the actual time I spent hunting above the treeline despite all of them dropping on the spot, their camo is absolutely insane. Never tried again because I got to cross that off the list, and the blue grouse habitat out here is a lot easier to get to! Never realized just how lucky I was until watching this and reading some of these comments haha
I have tramped all over the alpine wyoming from the winds, to the bighorns to yellowstone. I can appreciate the work these boys go through to hunt, and film. I only chasw trout, mainly goldens and that gear is enough to carryn i cant imagime toting a gun as well....
I knew the P's were in Alaska, but not CO. ! Keep that bird on your "to harvest" list Travis. Good Vid. Do they make water bottle size oxygen tanks ? HA !
I "Try" to hunt Ptarmigan every year in Colorado. they just tuck away in some little pocket of these massive basins and you cannot possibly cover the entire thing.. you have to hope you pick the right scree field.
I have shot ptarmigan in Scotland, above the tree line at about 2--3000 feet. The max height for mountains is just over 4000 feet, well below Colorado. The keeper we went out with, had English and German wire-haired pointers and worked each dog in 15 minute rotations, much better trained dogs than those on the video.
Usually a 12 gauge 2 3/4, high brass, many swear by #7 but I prefer 5 or 6 shot for longer distance shots. High brass #6 with good patterns will take almost any bird in North America.
para que van con perros y escopetas . les sugiero que mejor se reunan para hablar en zonas como un bar y aprendan como hacer para cazar con perros . Uds no son cazadores , ocupense en otra cosa.
The Flush seems always to showcase some terrible dog work. The dog work didn’t seem to suffer through most of the video but the dog eating the dead ptarmigan took care of that. It’s like The Flush can’t upload a video unless they get at least one terrible dog behavior. I personally have been ptarmigan and grouse hunting and had my dog bring me dead birds that other hunters must have shot and lost. He didn’t try to eat any of them. A dog that doesn’t retrieve dead game should not be allowed in the field.
Welcome to the real world where not everything is perfect or goes according to plan. I respect him for showing all the good and not so good that happens during a hunt.
Thanks for showing how hard real world hunting is. You can do everything right, work your butt off, and still see nothing! Good work, loved the video.
Thanks for watching!
This is the first episode of The Flush I've seen. Ptarmigan hunt is on the bucket list. For what it's worth, "species" is both plural and singular for a taxonomic group. "Specie" refers to money in the form of coin.
Thank you for a great show. I'm heading to Colorado in September '23 for my first dusky grouse hunt and have learned that there may be ptarmigan above me. I plan to take at least a day to explore the high country for a ptarmigan!
Great episode guys. Great scenery, great effort, and great dog work. The lack of birds on the ground is not detrimental. It's not about birds on the ground.
This is my backyard. I’ve seen ptarmigan in the same places every summer for years, come fall not a feather. Dusky grouse are my dogs very favorite and his specialty, but a boomer is a close second. The high country is always beautiful and entirely exhausting.
I have gone hunting for Ptarmigan here in CO exactly once. Hiked a few miles to get above the tree line, then promptly ran right into a covey sitting on the ground after less than a mile of hunting. I don't have a dog so I have to take what I can get, and I got my limit right then. Finding all 3 took longer than the actual time I spent hunting above the treeline despite all of them dropping on the spot, their camo is absolutely insane.
Never tried again because I got to cross that off the list, and the blue grouse habitat out here is a lot easier to get to!
Never realized just how lucky I was until watching this and reading some of these comments haha
Amazing footage - thanks for sharing!
I think this is the first episode that no birds were bagged but still great to watch.
Great Hunt, thanks for sharing the opportunity.
I have tramped all over the alpine wyoming from the winds, to the bighorns to yellowstone. I can appreciate the work these boys go through to hunt, and film. I only chasw trout, mainly goldens and that gear is enough to carryn i cant imagime toting a gun as well....
You all are the first Ive ever heard of intentionally hunting for ptarmigan. Particularly in the SW!
Wow! What a challenging hunt!
I knew the P's were in Alaska, but not CO. ! Keep that bird on your "to harvest" list Travis. Good Vid. Do they make water bottle size oxygen tanks ? HA !
Increible!!, gracias por subirlo!!
There's Hungarian ptarmigan in Oregon, not sure if it's the same species as white tailed ptarmigan though.
You’re thinking of Hungarian partridge, or gray partridge. Definitely not the same bird as a ptarmigan.
I "Try" to hunt Ptarmigan every year in Colorado. they just tuck away in some little pocket of these massive basins and you cannot possibly cover the entire thing.. you have to hope you pick the right scree field.
come up to BC... way more ptarmigan of all 3 species. That said, I've had days just like these! 😅
I have shot ptarmigan in Scotland, above the tree line at about 2--3000 feet. The max height for mountains is just over 4000 feet, well below Colorado. The keeper we went out with, had English and German wire-haired pointers and worked each dog in 15 minute rotations, much better trained dogs than those on the video.
Linda cacería, consulta amigó que cartucho usa para esa aves?
Usually a 12 gauge 2 3/4, high brass, many swear by #7 but I prefer 5 or 6 shot for longer distance shots. High brass #6 with good patterns will take almost any bird in North America.
@@siegehammer63 muchas gracias por responder amigo, un abrazo desde Patagonia, Chile
@@hunterfdm2944 greetings from Alberta, Canada! Lots of cool species to hunt in your neck of the woods, too
Were you guys worried about the possibility of your dogs going with the birds over the edge?
More dusky episodes too
Saludos🤗🤗🤗
Putting maps in these hunt videos goes too far man. Show some damn discretion.
Why is this wrong?
No thanks..
para que van con perros y escopetas . les sugiero que mejor se reunan para hablar en zonas como un bar y aprendan como hacer para cazar con perros . Uds no son cazadores , ocupense en otra cosa.
The Flush seems always to showcase some terrible dog work. The dog work didn’t seem to suffer through most of the video but the dog eating the dead ptarmigan took care of that. It’s like The Flush can’t upload a video unless they get at least one terrible dog behavior. I personally have been ptarmigan and grouse hunting and had my dog bring me dead birds that other hunters must have shot and lost. He didn’t try to eat any of them. A dog that doesn’t retrieve dead game should not be allowed in the field.
Welcome to the real world where not everything is perfect or goes according to plan. I respect him for showing all the good and not so good that happens during a hunt.
@@BrokenBarBox there is a difference between things not going as planned and dog’s eating game rather than retrieving it.
I stand by my comment. He easily could’ve edited that part out but he didn’t. Sometimes dogs do bad things. You deal with it and move on.