I would recomemnd a scatter gun, A .410 works but shoots a small group and grouse are usually in dense woods where half of you pellets from the shot will get caught by sourounding trees, a 20 or 28 gaugeis better, however a 16 gauge is a good all around bird/buck shot gun, its recoil is mininum and it shoots a way larger group. 16g is what I use for grouse. Then there is the 12 gauge, they work great but can get kind of heavy carying one around all day. In my experience you won't see many grouse from afar and if you did shooting one in the head with a .22 would work, but you would have to be a hell of a good shot and, IMHO, shooting a sitting or grounded grouse takes the "game" part out of "game" bird hunting, shoot them of the fly! If you happen to see a grouse from afar walk up closer to it and flush it out at which time you shoot it with your chosen scatter gun. I use my .22cal for rabbit, squirll and vermin. This is just IMHO.
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