Crow Shoot !!! Hunt any 3 days in the time frame February 21-April 5. Take a pic of your total crows accumulated over the 3 day hunt and include a FnF sign in the pic and post it here.
Have fun and shoot the heck outta em !!! You must be a FnF member, or child of an FnF member to participate in this shoot. Simple as that, its only for FUN, braggin, and ribbin !!!! (http://www.finsandfur.net/forums/MGalleryItem.php?id=34)
I'm gonna have to break this into two separate threads, were getting too many entries. :laf:
Or is someone holding out? :roflmao:
I can't believe it's already closing in on March, and I've only had the time to take my rifle for a walk once :doh2:
I cant find any crows around here. :rolleye:
I've been holding out waiting for some noob migrating crows to come back, been seeing some but nothing in numbers at all.
Quote from: HaMeR on February 26, 2009, 10:08:18 PM
I cant find any crows around here. :rolleye:
Glen what is Ohio crow season dates?
I could do a lot of sets over there on public ground. :eyebrownod:
Fri/Sat/Sunday only until March 15th then it's closed for nesting. Season usually opens back up around June 10th or so.
Gonna try and call in a yote in the morning, then gonna make the feathers fly (hopefully)
Quote from: HaMeR on February 27, 2009, 06:46:10 AM
Fri/Sat/Sunday only until March 15th then it's closed for nesting. Season usually opens back up around June 10th or so.
:laf: :confused:
Fri/Sat/Sunday only until March 15th then it's closed for nesting. Season usually opens back up around June 10th or so.
:shrug:
I am right across the river and yet the seasons are way different. :rolleye:
:laf: Yes they are.
Had a blast shooting em today......... Hunting the thick cover.....running and gunning.......
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This one got so close we gave him a lead sandwich.......
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Jon with a nice one......
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I had to belly crawl 300 yds on this one and flush em for Donny (Jon's son) to shoot....... :roflmao:
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Finally a couple close to the truck!!!
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Getting to warm out here....... :whew: ........in the 70's now!!!!!!! :shck:
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little old me with a single.......
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MAN........We shot a lot of shells...seemed like a box for every stand!!!!!!! :biggrin:
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Forgot the marker for the sighn......so here it is with the decoys.....
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12-14 for the day....Lost some in the brush....had a Blast!!!!!! Dave I wish you woulda been there buddy!!!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Awful lotta empties for just one bird!!! :roflmao: :roflmao:
You did good. I finally seen a flock of about 40 here along I77 coming back from Cabelas. :rolleye:
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SWEET :yoyo:
:roflmao:
You guys went out and put the smack down.
The contest sets dead and then all of a sudden this? :shck:
Nice job, thanks for the pics. Al you are one homely s.o.b. :laf:
Good shooting guys!!
Jim
Quote from: HaMeR on March 07, 2009, 04:43:02 PM
Awful lotta empties for just one bird!!! :roflmao: :roflmao:
Ya beat me to it Glen. :laf: I was gonna give em a hard time too. :laf:
Looks like ya had a good time fellers. :yoyo:
Scott
I shot a whole bunch of times today......more than some of you couch potatoes...... :innocentwhistle:
Ouch,,, ya got me there. :noway: :laf:
Bout the only thing I got done today was goin
over to a friends house, sittin in his garage, smokin
a couple stogies, and shootin the breeze. :biggrin:
The weather wasn't good for much else, rainin
and about 35 degrees.
I did all of this before noon and still made three calls when I got home....... :yoyo: :yoyo:
Wow Al you are pretty busy for a feller that just got laid off :yoyo: And thats a nice way to busy :biggrin:
Thanks for sharing the pics
Way to go Al! :yoyo: :yoyo: Nice pictures.
Pat
yep we had a blast donnys arm is black and blue :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: thats what he gets for pulling both barrels :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
Good Pics :yoyo:
We're having problems even seeing birds this spring for some reason :confused: :wo:
dont know much about them crows but i like shooting at them :eyebrow: :eyebrow: :eyebrow: :eyebrow: :eyebrow: al likes buying the shells :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
Quote from: Silencer on March 09, 2009, 01:59:09 PM
We're having problems even seeing birds this spring for some reason :confused: :wo:
Vic.....We were in the thick cover, Calling with mouth calls at first some then hitting the e caller hard and loud waiting till that first crow showed up and trying to kill him.(THE SCOUT BIRD)
Then we would pause and listen for the crows to come back some on their own and hit the E-caller again.
We were also blowing rabbit distress in with it all.....Early morning seems best...... GO GET EM MAN!! :yoyo:
Sit in the woods not the fields......thick pines seemed best. Up high!
Quote from: Silencer on March 09, 2009, 01:59:09 PM
We're having problems even seeing birds this spring for some reason :confused: :wo:
Probably because it aint, I say probably because it aint spring yet? :biggrin:
True Jim, not till the 20th :laf:
THIS ONE WAS RAIDING MY BIRD FEEDER SO I POPPED OPEN THE DOOR AND JUMPED AT HIM......YOU WANNA TALK STARTLED LMAO !...IF YOU LOOK AT THE PIC....IN HIS "ARMPIT" REGION HE HAS OVERLAPPING FEATHERS THAT LOOK LIKE THEY ARE THERE TO MAKE AN AERODYNAMIC SURFACE FOR THE AIR COMING OVER THE LEADING EDGE OF HIS WINGS....QUITE INTERESTING...6 MORE DAYS AND HED GET A LOAD OF 7 1/2'S TO HELP HIM ON HIS WAY :yoyo:
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That IZzzzz cool. It'd be really cool if he was facing ya.
Get em Gunz !! We want to see crow devastation !!
Here's my entry. Couldnt get the kids up and out this morning. Went 6 for 10 with their new 20 guage over-under. ( could only recover 4, 2 hid very well in the thick stuff ) That is one sweet shooting shotgun, I felt like I couldnt miss with it.
Got back home around 11am and went back out with the kids, wind picked up and they wouldnt come in low, stayed up too high.
Sorry for the quality of the pic, my camera broke and had to take a cell photo.
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Had to throw a plug in there for my buddy Coulter :wink: :biggrin:
What a great day to be afield, I bet 50+ flocks of geese went over, all around 100 or more birds each.
Good shooting Silencer!!
Jim
Sounds like fun Vic :highclap: :highclap: I wish I had been there......we would just now be getting home!.... :laf:
:yoyo:
Good Shooting :yoyo: That does look like a fine gun
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Sweeeeeeeeet!
I love the creative FnF sign :biggrin:
Neat pic and nice gun. Way to go on the birds.
Looks like a job well done :yoyo:
Well I gave it my best today. :rolleye: I'm hoping it will hold up since Ohio crow ended today. I did lose the 1st bird of the AM. It glided several hundred yards off over to property the County owns & is strictly posted nowadays. So after starting 1 for 3 & no birds on the ground I started to warm up a little. I hit the next 3 then promptly missed the next 4 shots. :rolleye: After setting there for a few minutes with no birds I calmed down. Then I went 10 for 14!! Oh yeah Al I was coming for your 12 bird total big guy!! :yoyo:
Here's the pic from the 1st set. I like to call it "The Carnage Shot". :biggrin: There is 14 crows & one deke on the far left.
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And this one's for you Vic!!
"Here's Your Sign!!" :laf:
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I ended the day with 15 "Good" crows. :yoyo:
Thats what I call putting the smack down on some crow :yoyo:
Good job Glen you should be proud :congrats:
Love the sighn!!!!!!!! :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo:
I woulda had to carry dead crows all over the place to get em in a pile like that......... :laf:
Dayyyyyyyum Glen! :yoyo:
Ok...I gotta steal both those FnF pics and put em in the photo gallery :yoyo: Toooooo Koool!
Wow!
Glen I should have stayed up and joined you for that crow hunt. Looks like you had a good one. Way to go and good shooting!
Jim
Geez did you get that book done already HaMeR :shck: Good shooting on the bird's. I saw one mangy raven at 300 yds today.
Good shootin Hamer, you know how bad I wanted to make a sign like yours :yoyo: :congrats:
Way to go Silencer and HaMeR. :yoyo: :yoyo: Great pictures and it liiks like you had fun.
Pat
Thanks guys. I really did have a blast out there. I went out Friday AM too. One bird came in way too high & for some reason I couldn't call the ones I heard across the road. :shrug: Oh well. Yesterday was very good for me. :yoyo:
Have you used your 3 days yet Vic?
Al-- These were all killed with 1,, A single,, nobody else there shotgun. :wink: :roflmao: :roflmao:
I coulda used a 2nd shotgun yesterday Frog. :wink:
Bill-- You shoulda been there. I never even scouted this trip. :laf:
You can have em Jim!! :yoyo:
Thanks Pat!! Crow shooting is a blast!! :biggrin:
Believe me HaMer....If I had time for three days to myself I would be in the runnin for sure..... :biggrin:
I was just glad to have one day to kick you guys in the butt to get out there and hunt!............ :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: Sounds like a lot of fun! No video? ....... :innocentwhistle:
GOOD LORD. Crow Carnage fo sure. Awesome pic & Love the FnF Sign :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo:
Dont think I'll have the time to make it back out again. Maybe on the 28th if little league practice doesnt start up.
Hamer, what was your set-up ? Feeding, agressive owl ??? Or did you run n gun em ?
Barry-- :doh2: Sorry I didn't respond to your post. I haven't started the book yet. I go to the bone Doc this evening so I'll lounge out later & start it. :wink:
I know you would Al. I even waited til after dark to post these pic so you didn't have time to run over here to Ohio & bust another 1/2 dozen!! :hahaha:
Thanks Hidehunter!! My best day by myself is 20. I've hit that twice. My Brother & I killed 34 one AM. He dusted me purdy good. I think I only had 14 that day. That sign idea was from Silencer with the shells up there. :biggrin: I didn't scout these birds so I didn't bother to make a sign. :laf:
:confused: :wo: You know if I give away all my secrets what I'll have to do right Vic??!! :laf: :laf:
The 2nd rock pile from right to left you can see my brown coat against the big tree in the background. I was setting against that tree. I shot them all thru the branches above me as they flew over. I had one come in & just as it started to swoop up to land on a branch I pounded it from about 18-20yds. :eyebrownod: Man the feathers flew from that one!! :eyebrownod: I set 6 full bodied dekes out to the left of the pic. I set the FX3 next to one. We keep the dekes about 30yds out in front of us. It was a feeding setup. Once the geese starting flying get ready. The crows are next to start squawking. I like to use a hand call at 1st to just bring a bird or two in at a time. This is when I keep the caller set on a crow distress or dyeing crow. Hit the e-caller when you shoot & the birds flair. The distress can & sometimes does bring them back for round 2. Then when this dies off I go to the e-caller. I like to use FP's crow party. It's non-threatening & seems to be inviting. Now the crows can come in 10 at a time so be locked & loaded. When the flair from the shooting hit the crow distress on the e-caller. This will work for a while too. Then when that sound dies off it's time to crank it up. I use the crow fight on full volume. This is when if there are more than a handful of birds around it's nice to have another shooter. Cause now the whole bunch of em are gonna come!! It's great too. Then when this dies off,, which is usually purdy quick,, I'll just set & watch for anymore birds off in the distance & wait a little while. I'll hit the crow party once in a while for a couple minutes & see if there are any new birds in the area. The one thing I've found that sometimes helps too is that once you have the same number of dekes & crows on the ground bag the dekes up. The birds in the carnage pic were all placed there with wings laid back & their beaks stuck in the dirt.
If you want to know anything else just holler. I'll try to help. :yoyo:
One more question, what you shootin for shells ? I find I do a heck of alot better with 6's...
Glen I would have loved to go hunting on Sunday,but just couldn't squeeze in 2 days in a week :pout:
I use a good quality high brass factory 7-1/2 when I can and mix in all those.......... I do not know what to do with shells, I got laying around the house so I can get rid of them. :biggrin:
Vic-- Coming from the Family that I come from we use reloads. :eyebrownod: My Brother tunes everything for me. It's something he just loves to do & is very meticulous at it. For the most part I use 7 1/2's. I've tried 8's & really like them too. Plus with the smaller shot you get a lot more shot in each shell. Have you patterned your shotgun at 35yds with 7 1/2's or different chokes??
Bill-- If you would have gotten into the crows like I did yesterday you would start making crow calls & leave the land roamers to others. :laf:
Al-- I shoot all low brass. It loads easier. Using those oddball shells up on crows doesn't really seem like a waste when you smoke some crows does it?? :eyebrownod:
Oh sorry, :doh2: I was still gazing at those FnF signs and wasn't paying attention to what you guys were saying. What's going on now?
Vic,
if you look at it like this.......
The small strands of a feather bound together being hit by a larger dia. shot grabs the shot on entry and slows it down.
The smaller shot gets grabbed by less strands causing less friction upon entry slipping more easily through to the body.
Glen,
A factory high brass is hotter than a factory low brass and that is what I meant.
I used to reload shot shells and man I tell ya you can load a low brass hull hotter than any factory low brass load and even hotter than some high brass loads......I do Love the 7-1/2 hot loads for crow I have made some long shots with it outa my turkey gun..... :eyebrow:
Glen I have shot a couple crows and made a few crow calls but thats about all I have done with it
MAN AL WE REALY FIRED UP THEM FELLERS NEXT TIME IM KILLEN MORE THAN THREE SETS GESSSSSS :whew: :whew: :whew: :whew: :whew: :eyebrow: :eyebrow:
Went coyote hunting yesterday morning and didnt do any good so started calling in a few crows. I had a blast sniping them with my 22/250. No carnage like HaMeR but here is my entry.
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What the hey is on the top of that gun?
:eyebrownod: Nnnnnnnnice! :yoyo:
LOL I love it !!!!!!!! :yoyo: :congrats:
Carnage is carnage!! I just got lucky is all!! :eyebrownod:
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Good shooting there hidehuntr!!!
Jim
This weekend will be the last few days, if you havent gotten out yet, best do so and put a whoopin on these egg suckers. I've already found some small bird eggs that have been ambushed and broke open. I know the guilty party are a pair of crows that are nesting down the street in the big pine. I cant shoot em in town.. :argh:
GO GET SOME !!!!!
I think that's a nationwide thing Barry. It's illegal to discharge a firearm within city limits.
I'm assuming because the, "know your target and beyond" thing, is completely out the window in such a case. :eyebrow:
Maybe thats why I get in a little more trouble than some as if I got a critter bugging me I take care of it where ever.
Barry, I cant even build a camp fire in the backyard to roast marshmellows let alone discharge a firearm. They'd be on me slicker than snot on a door knob. Town living sucks.
Soooooo!!!
Any idea who won this thing?????
:innocentwhistle:
:roflmao: :roflmao:
me.... :eyebrow:
:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: @^^^^!!
Congratulations Jim!!! :laf: :laf:
Thank you, by the way the pens showed up today. :eyebrow:
Awesome stuff. My babys gonna be thrilled.
You're Welcome Jim. And Thanks for putting some $$ into the FnF bank for the Turkey Contest!! :yoyo:
If that was a hint....you know what to do. :wink:
Yep!! But our season doesn't start for 2 more weeks!! :laf:
LoL.. congrats HAMER !!! :bowingsmilie: you get the crow crown this year :yoyo: :congrats:
:yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo:
:congrats: :congrats: :congrats:
Jim already stole it tho. :sad3: :sad3:
:laf: :laf:
I aint seen him in a pic holding anything so let him have something......... :innocentwhistle:
:laf: :laf:
QuoteI aint seen him in a pic holding anything so let him have something.........
:roflmao:
yeah that could be taken the wrong way here now. :puke:
Please don't provoke Jim :laf: He doesn't need it :roflmao:
:innocentwhistle:
:shrug:
:biggrin:
:confused:
:huh:
:loco:
:shrug:
:roflmao: :roflmao:
That was one of those subtle sub lemon messages Jimbo. :laf: :laf:
Quote from: HaMeR on February 03, 2010, 06:44:24 AM
That was one of those subtle sub lemon messages Jimbo.
Jim,
Just to help you out and cut down on your "look up" time. Sub lemon or sometimes called sub-lemonal messages are ones that are a little higher in acidic content than sub-orange or sub-grapefruit messages.
Jerry
:whew: Thanks Jerry!! I aint as ejukated as you & sometimes caint splain it wright. But I think Jim will understand now. :biggrin:
:wo: Oh WTH!!
IS WE DOIN THIS AGAIN VIC??
:laf: :laf:
Heck yea, I look at some dates and get the ball rolling
:biggrin:
And this time I will give a crow call to the feller with the most crows killed
Vic sent me a PM before I seen this.
I basically told him that if your gonna run it for bragging rights only... like the last ....one go for it. You can set it up, and dont really need to even ask. :wink:
If your looking to go the full nine yards, prizes etc and need funding from the FnF bank for cash prizes etc....get a hold of Jerry since Chet and Rich are at the LBL.
There's discussions taking place in the mods forum now and the three of them will be handling most of the contest stuff since all I do is screw it up. :shrug:
Actually I'm getting too much on my plate with the hosting business and what not, and it's tough to juggle with the contests and time involved in most of them. So these guys are gonna roll it around. :wink:
Quote from: HaMeR on February 03, 2010, 07:52:21 AM
Thanks Jerry!! I aint as ejukated as you & sometimes caint splain it wright. But I think Jim will understand now. :biggrin:
Glen,
No problem and I really am not all that educated. I just know my vegetables like lemons, oranges, and grapefruit. They might be fruits I can never tell them apart - they all look the same. I do know that they are NOT nuts. I am the only one that is going nuts. Jim gives us permission to work on the contests and then Chet and Rich leave. Heck I am left here sending emails to myself asking myself questions that I really don't have the answers to or I would not have needed to send the email to myself in the beginning. It DOES make me feel much better when I get a reply from myself telling myself that the original myself that received the email doesn't know either. At least that way I am not alone. :sick2:
Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, & myself
:roflmao: @ Jerry ^^
QuoteSo these guys are gonna roll it around. :wink:
Yep, we're rolling it around, Boss
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Quote from: coyotehunter_1 on February 04, 2010, 03:54:05 AM
Yep, we're rolling it around, Boss
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That is one of your best right there HaMeR. ;yes;
Uhhhhhh :confused: That was Chet, Vic :sneer:
Chet the beatle and Hamer the dungball ? :eyebrownod:
Yeah, yeah..... :laf:
:doh2: :doh2: :doh2:
I should have known; that was too funny for HaMeR. :shrug:
:laf: :laf: :laf:
Ya got to excuse me. ;yes;
I've been having it a little rough at work. :readthis:
:argh: :madd: :mad2: :mad3:
Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, & myself-- So what did yall decide then?? :laf: :laf:
Quote from: HaMeR on February 07, 2010, 07:34:34 PM
Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, & myself-- So what did yall decide then?? :laf: :laf:
Well it was a close vote but you already know the results. http://forum.finsandfur.net/index.php?topic=11231.0 :biggrin:
Jerry
:confused: If it was a close vote who didn't come on board with ya?? Jerry Jerry Jerry or yourself?? Inquiring minds need to know. :laf: :laf:
Glen,
Well, as you know, in elections we are not allowed to reveal who voted which way and can only release the final results. In this particular case it won by ONLY two votes. (This is one of the closest votes that I can remember taking part of since the one to name a ribbed call. That one only had one vote which is the number it won by.) There was an exit poll that was conducted and it seems that one vote was cast with the feeling that nothing should be unanimous - whatever that means. After all, it was either Yes or No and someone wants to vote for Not Unanimous. I think it might have been one of the ACORN recruits from one of the muslim countries, but (again) as we both know we are not allowed to ask that type of question any longer either.
I did get an email from PETA that went on and on about how bad it was that we were encouraging the killing of helpless crows and they then suggested that the rules might be changed so that only plastic crows (similar to the ones used for decoys) be used for both the hunt and the shoot. I said that my reply would be in the mail (I taped an envelope on a cement brick, placed a 1 cent stamp on it the envelope, marked it overnight express, and left it at the post office. I think they should have my reply today - along with a postage due of close to $75. (I love messing with PETA.)
I hope that this will help you understand the complexity of the vote. Personally, I am just glad that FnF was able to make the 2010 contest available to the members.
Jerry
QuoteI hope that this will help you understand the complexity of the vote.
:confused: NOPE!!! :roflmao:
I'm just glad that at least two of you could agree with yourselves on this one. It's rare to find that in folks these days. Usually they bicker back & forth with themselves but this time they all pulled together as,,, :confused: I aint got a clue what they pulled together as but I'm glad they did!! :yahoo:
As for the ribbed call vote. I still feel it was rigged & it shoulda been named after it's creator. The groovy broomstick maker. :laf: :laf:
in kentucky our crow season goes out the 28 of feb....lol not a alot of time left lol
You best get to bustin them then!! :yoyo: :yoyo: