I have been doing some experimenting with the coyote decoy and have come up with some useful tips for crow hunters. I put the coyote decoy in a small clearing near woods, with several dead crow decoys scattered on the ground, one hanging in his mouth, and a crippled crow decoy just in front of him on the ground. Start out with a couple of howls, and follow up in a few minutes with a single crow death cry. The crows seem to hate coyotes anyway, and when they show up and see that crippled crow flopping down there under that coyote's head, and the other dead ones lying there, it is comical to watch them go for help and come back. Be sure to hide your ecaller extra good with some camo cloth or netting. I have had good enough results with it that I plan on using it some on the upcoming Ky. crow season.
sounds like some good entertainment
That's great how something new will work. Don't you just love playing with toys. Don't have to wait for crow season here as they are considered a pest.
Quote from: possumal on August 14, 2008, 10:04:30 PM
Be sure to hide your ecaller extra good with some camo cloth or netting.
Hey Al: could ya just stick the call under the coyote decoy?
Had the decoy dog out w/ me once & the crows where coming in the woods after him to get his rabbit. :laf:
Probably could in a lot of cases. I use a small camera tripod a lot, with a camo net I drape around the whole deal. Gives me a handy place to get the caller up off the ground, which sounds better, in my opinion. A darned crow has about the sharpest eyes and senses of any bird around, and you need all the concealment you can get. The tripod also works well if the ground is too hard to use the stake that comes with the decoy.
possumal,
That's exactly what alscalls and I did on the hunt where I killed the ground hog. On our first stand Al set up his coyote decoy on the middle round bale and I put the quiver critter and the Scorpion right beside it. After we kind of gave up on the coyotes coming in I started some crow sounds on the Scorpion. Pretty soon we had 10 to 15 crows come in. Even though we were very visible to them they stayed for 15 minutes or so. They seemed mesmerized by the call and the decoys. The expecially got excited when I played the hurt crow sound. They landed in trees just across the meadow from us and continued to fly out and around the decoys. I'm sure if we would have taken a shot at one of them they would have bugged out of there quickly. I was tempted to try one of them that landed in a dead tree at about 100 yards. I had already figured that I would have to hold about an inch low at that range, but I decided not to take the shot as it might scare away a possible coyote. Alscalls should have some good photos and maybe even some video that he shot with his new camera.
Jim