Within this DVDs set you will learn:
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How to plan, research, and optimize your hunt
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Site requirements for males, females, and chicks—what to look for from the hunter’s perspective
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Food requirements throughout the year—learn what the grouse eats you’ll know where to find birds
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The male and female grouse yearly life cycle and habitat—knowing this assists in pre-season scouting as well as the fall hunt
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Brood development, fall dispersal, and early winter re-grouping—the time of the season affects where we find birds
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Factors affecting the overall grouse population cycles—the up cycle and the down cycle and how we change our hunting strategy
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How to sex a grouse and to identify a juvenile from an adult
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Woodcock habitat requirements
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Flush patterns of woodcock—identifying the difference between a male flush and a female flush to better prepare you for that split second shot
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Strategies for hunting woodcock dependent on the time of day and weather conditions
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How to sex a woodcock
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How to locate and identify productive habitat for grouse and woodcock
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How to hunt the transitions and how the transitions change with the season and weather
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Hunting “the backdoor”—strategies to hunt “heavy hunter traffic areas”
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How best to use topographical maps and aerial photos in your pre-hunt planning
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How to identify clear-cuts
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How elevation affects timber types
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Locating possible grouse funnels (patterns of escape)
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Use of the Internet when planning and researching your hunt
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How to conduct preseason scouting
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Put it all together and strategically getting the most out of your hunt