ExploreCincy Boat Show at Sharonville Convention Center continues this week Some of my favorite annual outings used to be the tail end of Ohio’s October-to-February Ruffed Grouse season.

And this was abundantly clear to me the other day while I sat in a tiny chair blind, in the dark, waiting for the sun to come up and for a ruffed grouse to enter the habitat that lay before me.

Hunting pheasants, ruffed grouse, squirrels or rabbits offers opportunities to enjoy the Minnesota outdoors as temperatures fall and snow blankets the landscape. For pheasants, the season is open ...