Got out yesterday for some crows finally. It was a beautiful Fall day with 36* temps. I took the ol 870 20ga out for the maiden voyage of the new season & after several "Welcome back" shots with it I finally managed to get into a bit of a groove. Not too many pics since I was out more for the enjoyment of being away from work & town.
The days take. 7 "good" crows volunteered to make web history on this date.
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crow pot pie?
Looks like you had a good day Glen! :congrats:
Dave
Although we have crows out here and a season I don't hunt them as we also have ravens which are protected, go figure. They are hard to distinguish while in flight so I don't bother. I once asked the local warden how in the heck do you determine which is which, his reply: "If you miss it was a raven, if you kill it, it is a crow."
Seven crows not a bad day at all, better than zero pigeons.
Looks like Glen had fun!
Jerry
Looks like Glen had fun is right. But I'm not real sure I'm buying this whole "Not too many pics since I was out more for the enjoyment of being away from work & town."...speel. :laf:
Very nice Glen. Thanks for the pics PIC
Dang i gotta get out after them obama chickens!
:alscalls: :alscalls: @ the crow pot pie!!
Yes I did Dave!! I had a blast!! :biggrin: :biggrin:
I agree with the Warden Mr. John. Altho that might not be the same Warden that shows up. :innocentwhistle: :innocentwhistle: The only way I could tell the difference is that they sound different from the crows. And I'm happy with the 7 for my 1st hunt. I'm not a good wingshooter so it takes me a cople months wo get back in the groove. Hope you get to busting them damned pigeons soon too!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
One or maybe 2 of those fell to a Hawks Feather CC as well!! Now that's having fun right there!!!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
:laf: :laf: @ Jim!! What a morning!! Cool & brisk with a light breeze & crows responding!! I'll take more pics next time for you. :biggrin: :biggrin:
DO IT NASTY!!!!!!! Kill all dem sumbeeches!!!!!!!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Went out again this morning. 29* & breezy. I knew this wouldn't last long & it didn't. I was setup & ready by 7:20. Heard the 1st Crow just before 8:00. At 8:00 I had the 1st one on the ground. By 9:00 I had 8 more with it. 9 by 9:00 was a good start to the day. But again,, I knew things wouldn't last the way they were. By 9:30 things had changed. The winds were really whipping thru off & on. By 10:00 I had 2 more on the ground & a cripple that landed in the woods about 60 yards or so to my left. Never found it. By 10:30 I had 3 more in the dirt & one in the heavy brush that I could see but couldn't get to for the picture. But it sure was dead!! By then I'd had enough.
Short 2 second clip of the winds. My phone wouldn't work right & this was all I could get with it. I actually shot the last 6 in these winds. I missed a lot of easy shots but I don't think it was all me this time as I was hitting decent up til then.
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The pile for the day (14) minus the one in the brush for 15 total "good" Crows.
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The carnage shot. Not a very good one & coulda had more birds in it but I'll take the 15 for the 3 hours I could stand to be out getting buffeted about in the tree line.
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Way to go Glen :yoyo: :yoyo: You are tearing them up. :biggrin: :biggrin:
Pat
Those winds you speak of were here all morning. It seems to have calmed down a little, but this morning was nasty. I am glad that you were able to get out and have some more fun.
I assume that you didn't need to shoot the two that came down from the HF call. I can usually just blow one and they die right there from the awful sound.
Jerry
Nice job...there's enough there for TWO pies now :wink:
Wow!! Glen, you are slaying them!! Good shooting!
Jim
Good job Glenn and thanks for sharing makes me want to get off my butt and go.
Educated gun owner with a Samsung Galaxy Note 2
Quote from: FinsnFur on October 26, 2013, 06:50:13 PM
Nice job...there's enough there for TWO pies now :wink:
Naw, you need '4 and 20' blackbirds to make a pie.
Jerry
Thanks Pat!! You did a darn good job on those Turkeys down there too!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Jerry-- The hand calls didn't seem to work yesterday for whatever reason. So I put them away & just used the e-caller. There's been quite a few crows die by the HF~~ Hawks Feather~~ & not to be confused with Harbor Freight tools,, around these parts over the last couple years. :eyebrow: :eyebrow: And those winds were horrible!! I had to lead them on 15yd shots!! :whew:
I'll get that pie sent North Jim!! Just watch for the little brown truck!! :eyebrow: :eyebrow:
Thanks Jim!! Gonna have to wait ti the corn is picked now tho. The Wheat is coming thru on the bean fields.
Get out there & film some Black Death for us Richard!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Things started slow again this AM. 1st crow didn't show til just after 7AM. Shot & missed!! Things got a little better after that tho. I managed to train 11 "good" crows. 10 of which made it into the final pic. I wasn't wading the river for ol #11 tho.
I realized today I hadn't gotten any pics from the blind so here's one.
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Remnants from the last volley of the day. 4 "good' crows stayed behind for the photo op. The other 15 or 20 left in a hurry.
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Carnage shot. There are a couple dekes in the pic.
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Total tally for the day.
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That carnage shot was pretty cool. :highclap:
...then I scrolled down and got to the roman numeral :eyebrownod: :thumb2:
Just walked back in the door!! I went yesterday AM early to look for crows. I found about 100 or so. They were evenly divided between 2 fields about 8 miles apart. Last night on the way home from the store we seen probably 250 crows flying in the general direction of one of those 2 fields to roost. So I decided to setup on the closest field 1st today. Just hoping some would fly South to my location.
Well it didn't quite happen that way but the other 50 or so from yesterday did show up to the same area. I was able to call them from my location & really enjoyed the shooting. I used the CZ712 this AM. The sky rained black feathers for hours!! Well maybe not that much BUT,,,,, 17 crows became a little more mild mannered than when they came in!!
There is 16 in the pile. Ol #17,,, which was actually the 13th crow of the day,,, ended up downstream somewhere. Seems they don't swim all that well when they're full of holes!!
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This is my Field of Dreams shot.
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You can see the "floater" about 1/3 of the way down the pic. Along the hanging branch on the left.
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Sure was a good morning hunt. I had a lot of fun.
Glen,
What is that brown stuff the crows are laying on? Not only that, but I think this shot was set up. There is NO way that there isn't ice on the water. :wink: I guess spring will come sooner in your area than ours.
Jerry
P.S. Looks like a fun shoot.
Good Job Glen, looks like you gotum zeroed in, we have a shoot every now and then but never can keep them coming in long enough to rack up a good score. cc
Glen, looks like 20ga casings on the blind floor, you killing them things with a 20? How close you letting them get to ya?
John,
Usually Glen doesn't use a shotgun at all. He just calls them in, puts salt on their tail, and they stay right there. Yes, he really is THAT good! :bowingsmilie:
Jerry
I thought maybe his better half was doing the shooting.
I never thought of that. Since she IS the shooter of the family that may be the reason Glen has to use the salt shaker for his birds.
Jerry
That would be winter wheat & mud Jerry!! And not that long ago we were concerned about the ice dams & flooding. Thankfully it was avoided in all but the extremely low places & nobody was negatively affected. And it warms up a lot quicker down South here. :innocentwhistle:
Thanks Carl. The decoys did most of the work today. I didn't have to call much. And it's easier when you know they are in the area.
Mr. John-- The hunts at the top were last fall. And you are correct on the 20ga. My best range is between 15 & 25yds. Most of the hits,, 12 or 20ga are between 10 & 35yds. I did have a very lucky shot on one today that had to be pushing 40+ tho. It was waaaaay out there.
And when is the last time anybody here has tried to salt a crows tail??!! :noway: THAT'S what I thought!! :alscalls: :alscalls:
Diane doesn't shoot the shotguns. Just never wanted to. But someday I want to call a turkey in for her. :eyebrow: :eyebrow:
Yesterday AM wasn't a total bust. I got out for a couple hours on the last day of Crow season anyhow. I went to the other field where I had seen around 50 or so birds on Thursday. These birds were flying a lot higher than the day before which made for a lot of watching & not as much shooting. I did get some within range but they circled behind me over the thicker tree tops rather than out front. I did take quite a few "Oh what the he77" shots tho!! I managed to dump 2 good crows.
Here's the 2nd one.
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And here's the 1st.
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Love those river landings!!
And hopefully the rivers flowing slow enough you can get a pic fore shes gone :laf:
Do you call, Glenn?
Aint that the truth!! Luckily the last 2 days I was out it had slowed a bit from the runoff.
Yes I do call. I have 3 hand calls that I really like & an FX3. I like to start with hand calls & see what I can do. Then after abot 2hrs fire up the e-caller. These last 2 hunts was 99% e-caller tho. They just weren't interested in lone calling & would only respond to the Crow Fight sound. It's hard to sound like a murder of rowdy crows with a hand call.
The previous hunt was really nice. The decoys did the work for me in about 1/2 of the crows that showed up. Sometimes there's no need to call.
This fall I'll be back after them again. I'll start with the ol 870 that I sanded down & re-stained this Winter. :eyebrow:
Ever get em to land with your decoys?
Maybe a little bait would work. It helped John with his 'bird' problem.
Jerry
Dang it Jim...I was gonna ask that question. Guess I'll ask in a different way...so Glen, are you using that crow call you made yourself?
Nicely done sir...
Steve
Jim-- I have had crows land with the decoys on one or 2 occasions. Upon post landing mortem inspection :eyebrow: I deemed them to be very young crows. And I've never had any land unless there were real crows already strewn about the field. My Brother & I have both had Red Tails attack our crow decoys. Now THAT is funny!!!!!!!! :alscalls: :alscalls: Oohhh the thunk & look of WHAT THE HE77 JUST HAPPENED!!!! in their beady little eyes is priceless!! Looks kinda like this >> :shock2: << :alscalls: :alscalls:
Jerry-- On the 17 bird shoot friday I found a deer skeleton & put a couple pieces of the spine under 2 decoys beaks. And a couple small leg bones with another. That may have helped.
Steve-- I have used that call. I used it around this time last year if I remember correctly. It worked purdy good. I just like the 3 I have on my lanyard a little more. There's a Jack Mincey call,, Knight & Hale,, & the venerable Hawks Feather call on it.
Sometimes no matter what call you have you still need a lot of noise all at once. That's where the e-caller comes in handy.
Mincey makes a finnnne crow call.
Ah yahhhh...The trusty hawksfeather call.
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Yes he does nasty!! He also made me a very sweet slate over slate pot call out of wormy Chestnut. :eyebrow: :eyebrow:
That's the one Jimbo!! Now get out there & make it rain black feathers my Friend!!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Yeah, just go wipe yer poop chute first.
Jim,
Hum. Using that call might be the reason that you haven't shot any crows. :sleep2:
Jerry
Oh Ive shot crows over that thang :eyebrownod: