Hah! What a load of c#*p! Thats like comparing chalk and cheese! For a start its a different bird and while ruffed grouse are shot walked up over pointers, English/Scottish grouse is famous as the ultimate test of the driven game shot. The experience of shooting on a 400 acre preserve is also rather different to a 15,000 acre Scottish of Northumbrian moor. Far from being in decline, 2008 looks like it will be a record year and meanwhile, interest in Scottish grouse moors and grouse shooting show no sign of decline and moors are currently valued for purchase at between £3,000 and £4,000 per brace (not acre!). In the suppsedly poor 2007 season (according to Forbes) Wemmergill moor in Northumberland shot over 7,500 brace!
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Re: Forbes article on grouse hunting in Wisconsin