SO TODAY WAS AN AWESOME DAY WEATHERWISE...I WENT FOR AN AFTERNOON JAUNT THROUGH THE OAKS LOOKING FOR A SQUIRREL....STILL NO LUCK THERE...I KEPT HEARING CROWS ALL AROUND SO I FINALLY DECIDED TO HAVE A GO AT THEM...I HID BEHIND A PIECE OF FARM MACHINERY...SET THE FX3 OUT WITH THE OWL DECOY AND A CROW DECOY...LET ER RIP....CROW FIGHT AND DEATH CRY...HAD 7 0R 8 COME BOMBING IN...DROPPED THE FIRST ONE IN THE PICTURE....KNOCKED ONE DOWN IN THE CORN AND ONE GOT STUCK IN A TREE ON THE WAY DOWN...FIRST TIME THAT EVER HAPPENED LOL...HERES A PIC:
(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj275/nastygunz/09crow.jpg)
And I like the props :eyebrownod: :wink:
Farm machinery is the best blind ever invented :biggrin:...I had this one place I use to hit that had an old abandoned truck trailer beside a little field...I used to drive by the field with crows in it...park behind the old trailer...get out and gear up and then sneak along the trailer and get to the end and slowllllllyyyyy peek around the end of the trailer and then ease the barrel around...and let er rip....I shot more crows from there...seems like out of sight out of mind ...now the damn place is a huge medical complex...like so many of my spots...bulldozed into "civilization".
Looks like fun.
Jerry
I pretty much dislike agreeing with anyone but this time I have to :shrug: Farm machinery certainly is a part of the land scape that critters are used to and I use it a lot myself. :wink:
I think you fellas would like the old farmer, hes 80+..got a big dairy farm...hes dryer then the sahara in a sand storm...he drove down when I was getting ready to leave in his old truck with his old dog...told me he never seen anyone lure em in and shoot em....he looked at the crow and says "GODDAMN THINGS, ALL THEY DO IS FLY AROUND AND MAKE A GODDAMN RACKET, SHOOT EM ALL!".... :roflmao:....with a 10 foot thick country NH accent to boot :wink:...he speaks right to the point..when I asked permission years ago to hunt there he told me no speeding, dont shoot near the cows or buildings, no shooting in fields being worked and no littering...and we get along just fine :wink:
:yoyo:
I used an old dump truck as a blind for years till the price of steel went up and someone hauled it in.
Seeing any geese ???
I skipped the resident goose season up here but my kinfolk up north have been floating down the connecticut river in kayaks and pounding the canadian geese pretty good....they put in at one town then float down to rigs at the next town...pretty deadly cuz they use the current to float near the shores so they dont move or make any noise...and they hit the set backs and when they do the geese always try to fly towards the river so they pass right over them at low altitude...great way to duck hunt also...plus when flushed the birds usually fly up river so the kayaks in the back get some good low passing shots.
I've been wanting to get a conoe/kayak/small john boat to do the same. ;yes;
I spotted the one I dropped in the tree today, heres a pic lol.
(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj275/nastygunz/treecro.jpg)