Crows!

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Crows are starting to gather in anticipation of migration here in southern Manitoba. Flocks in the hundreds are now common. Shot my way through almost two boxes of shotgun shells last evening with 27 confirmed kills. The best is yet to come!
 
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So 50rds to kill 27 birds?

I was at moncton zoo, and one of the animals in a cage was a crow. Pretty Exotic.
 
Crows around my area are so spooky, I'd be lucky to get 15 rounds off, never mind 50.

Stalk as carefully as you like, their spies get one glimpse of you, and the whole flock moves on!


I'd say 27 kills is pretty good!
 
M12shooter said:
Crows are starting to gather in anticipation of migration here in southern Manitoba. Flocks in the hundreds are now common. Shot my way through almost two boxes of shotgun shells last evening with 27 confirmed kills. The best is yet to come!
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Good start ... now settle down, "wood to wood" and follow through ! ;)
 
crows all over in SW ontario. They are very good at picking out corn seed after planting and staying out of shotgun range. Nice shooting. You practically need a .223, and a scope to get these at 200 yrds ;)
 
Trotter said:
crows all over in SW ontario. They are very good at picking out corn seed after planting and staying out of shotgun range. Nice shooting. You practically need a .223, and a scope to get these at 200 yrds ;)
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In central Ontario we had very few crows over the past few years, West Nile Virus wiped out a lot of them. Seems the ones that survived now are immune and the numbers this year are up very substantially. (they also seem to be dumber this year, maybe because of all the younger birds)
 
I have read that to succesfully hunt them you need to be in cammo and decoy and call them.
I have noticed an increase in them , as well as those dirty Bast@*$d black birds
AKA Starlings. These pains in the A,s are as abundant and skittish and fun to shoot.
They all learn very fast at the art of escape and evaision.
 
they are definatly harder to kill then ducks. Make sure you don't miss because they don't like to come back!!! we take strips from garbage bags and tape them onto the plastic decoys. Hang 2 from the trees and 4 on the ground. We only hunt in winter and earily morning seems to be the best. The birds are moving the most. I noticed lately im starting to see larger murder's of crows ( is that how you say it? LOL) I think I may have to go stand in the crow and try my luck at a few before the snow flies....
 
Shooting crows is leagal all year round in B.C. ( Schedual C wild life)
Its a Good and legal reason to take my shotgun with me out in the bush!
Use the dead crows for decoys and get an owl. (crows hate owls)
 
... It's most unfortuante for me, that while it's year round open seaon for Crows in BC, you have to have a Hunting License #! Which I don't, and I'm too lazy to Challenge the CORE Exam. ..... David K :(
 
Like Limit says Schedule "C" in B.C. and I bust crows on my land every chance I get.
There are literally hundreds at my place eating all of the saskatoon berries right now along with all the destruction and havoc they wreak on indigenous birds of the area. They are tough to hunt as they always have a scout on duty in the treetops. So far they have not associated my shooting bench with death yet [three kills and counting], but they can see me carrying from 200 yards and they scatter. I have luck headshooting them between 50-75 yards.

I recently hunted crows with Limit-Time on the lower mainland with shotgun and man they were tough to hunt!. Very wary birds down there, I was using a super turkey full choke and premium extended range rounds and still couldn't get close enough for a hit.

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David K said:
... It's most unfortuante for me, that while it's year round open seaon for Crows in BC, you have to have a Hunting License #! Which I don't, and I'm too lazy to Challenge the CORE Exam. ..... David K :(
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I am 99.9% sure that no license is required to bust crows on private land in BC...laws in the area regarding discharge on your property you'd have to check of course. Maybe Limit-Time will post a PDF of the regs.
 
... Thanks anyway Sun and Steel 77, but I called "wildlife" directly and also checked with Local sources. Private Land is definitely, at worst, a grey area, but I'd need it for more open areas. I even tried the fact that years ago I did have a Hunting License, and Tags that were used in BC, all to no avail ! No Grandfathering allowed in my case! .... David K
 
On PEI, your not allowed using solid rounds(slugs, bullets) and your shot size also can't be bigger than BB(lead) & T(steel).
 
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