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Bill Gass

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Is anybody doing any crow hunting? I thought that it would be a good way to get out prior to the season opener and brush up on your shooting skills and pattern your shotgun. Another thing that I was wondering about was if anyone was using the small crow decoys as confidence decoys in your watefowl spread. Well not in your spread but in a nearby tree or on the shoreline. As crow are know for being a wary and intelligent bird. Just a thought. I was reading about it on crowbusters.com

Bill Gass
Oromocto, NB
 
I use 3 or 4 crow decoys when field hunting geese. I place them 15-20 yds from the main set up. Good confidience decoy seems to work. Crows are good practice to stay in good form, besides the fact that I hate the noisy little b****rds!
 
Bill,
I actually hunt them before during and after the duck season.Not sure how much crow hunting you have done but these birds are smart as heck after thay have been called at and shot at a few times.Thay have better eye sight than alot of the ducks and geese you will encounter,and sadley or maybe not I usually kill more crows than ducks during the year.

Good Luck!!
 
hey, do not discount the breasts as good vittles!! we served them at the runamuck soiree a few years ago--batter dipped strips and cajun blackened---they disappeared like hotcakes ---chris pratt can verify this!! served coot that year, too!!
 
Crow hunting is pretty fun.
If we are doing a feeding set-up we will stake out a place for quite awhile. I have 2 dozen of the GHG FFD Elite Crow decoys and place I am in the process of making 3 dozen flocked silos.
When we hunt a fighting set-up we use very few decoys because we don't stay in one place too long..... pretty much shoot and move. Basically more or less relying on the calling machine to do most of the attraction.

My first crow hunting experience way back when was pretty cool but morbid as well.
 
Hey Lee.Telus more about exactly how you go about hunting crows.
I want to start and don't know the first thing about it1
Thanks
 
There was a great article on the king of crow hunting in the NRA American Hunter magazine a few months back. You might find it on a Google search. The article posted a web site Crow Busters that I have a link to at work. Will try to get it to you today. Good Luck.
PS, 70 yr. Crows are just like ducks. Shoot a few and keep the habitat available = good all around. But.... to suggest on a hunting web site that a single individual from a species should not be removed rings of the mentality that drives PETA and the AHUS people. Hunting/fishing any game is not bad. Leaving no habitat or a sustainable base population to reproduce the species is not a good idea and has nothing to do with the American Conservation Ethic.
Bob Butler.
 
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I used to do a little crow hunting while I was in H.S. It was fun and good practice. This year during duck hunting, I mouth called one in from a long ways out, he came in better than any duck or goose did that day. I was calling it for my buddy next to me in the blind, but a branch was in his way, and I put a 3" steel BB in him. Pretty expensive bird for a little dog work, but you should have seen him work!
 
We crow hunt this time of year. A friend of mine is a rabid crow hunter. A few years ago he and his crew killed close to 400 of them I think. I think his best day last year was 65 birds or so. We usually put out about 100 decoys or more and use two e-callers. Scouting of course will get you into the big shoots. I'm not that into it personally but go along. I usually put my turkey choke in and shoot 8's or 9's which really swats them at long range so I shoot the tall birds. I have to admit that when they come in like a tornado it's a hoot.

As far as eating them goes...I'll pass. I wouldn't turn them down if I was going hungry but after parasitology class and cleaning crows after hunting...the parasites are just too much for me. Geese are full of them too but you normally don't see them outside the GI tract. Crows are crawling with them. I mean...it's in the meat man. Nope, I'll pass on the verminous crow.
 
I have crow hunted back in the late nineties, but now split my time between Memphis and Las Vegas.No crows to speak of in Nevada. When we went, Tn had no limit and open season; now it has been reduced to weekend only I think. Anyway... to sucessfully shoot them we would woods hop and NEVER shoot the roost!! Catch them going to or leaving it.Every winter we shot in East Tn and would generally kill60 to 100 or so crows amongst 3 shooters. I know of two brothers who have been on the same shoot when the time is right and took over 300 birds in two days. Each night the coyotes took them and we started anew in the evening. Evenings tend to be best. I would recommend a Turpin crow call; thay can be found through midwest turkey supply.
Have fun.
Memphis John
 
Yeah, this is the State where nothing is allowed I swear.

As to motorized decoys in MN, the law is written exclusively for duck hunting and it basically applies only to the first couple of weeks of the season. I don't know the exact language but these are the basic tenents of the law. I haven't hunted with a moto for at least a couple of years now and I really don't hunt that much in MN. Wisconsin is the place to be for me. There are no rules banning moto's in WI and you can even crow hunt while duck hunting. And, you are allowed an electronic crow caller in the duck boat with you to call the crows. Should you come across a CO and have a duck tape in the caller, or anything other than steel in the ammo bag, you are in a heap of trouble. Got this in writing from the local and federal CO's.

Mark W
 
which state you like and which you prefer....I have to see it in writing periodically to remember which of the "cheese states" is which....

I remembered that the "no moto" law was really screwy there because it didn't apply to private land but did to public land.....strange stuff for sure....

I'd love to see that "flopping decoy" rig in action....my guess would be that if you laid a Moto-Crow on the ground that it would flop as well, and likely be less fragile than the smaller "kids toy" flying thingy that you referred to....might just have to try that.....

Steve
 
I had no idea that so many people were out shootin crows. Some very interesting decoy set ups as well, although it's starting to reming me of that movie, what was the name the one with Chuckie the killer toy in it? Anyway now that I look you can hunt crow, coyote and groundhogs in New Brunswick from 01 March to 20 Sept on a Varmit lic and then from 01 Oct to 28 Feb on a Deer and Gamebird lic or Smallgame lic. Now thats a long season only being cloes around the time of the annual moose season.

Bill Gass
 
me and daisy went after the crows the other day friday mornin minus 30 C windchill minus 26 C real temp and a snowstorm or a squal came in off the bayOfundy,we headed in to the backside of about 5000 roosted crows about 1 klm from them in a tree line i made my stand tossed out the owl and holy cow i started callin and all hell broke loose i only brought 1 box of shells and they were gon and the crows were fallin and being broght back to me before while another fell lost count over 20 for sure and crips were being brought back as well ,when dasiy would hunt them up ,she even treed one lol
she learned real fast to grab them from back the neck she was aggresive withthem after the first one she would flip them up in the air and get em from behind.
i bought these for the next hunt
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Shermie, looks cold. A quick editing suggestion for your tag line: [font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]It's all about the kids. They're the future of hunting. Pass it on.[/font]
 
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