Benelli M4 vs. Crow

Best thing to do is staple up a big sheet of paper or cardboard, at 40 yards and shoot for patterns.

Before I got into Crows I too used #4's and wondered why I was "missing" easy longer shots, so I went to the patterning board and found big holes in the pattern- try and remember that crows are flimsy and #7.5's penetrate deep. The feathers are not packed and stiff like a duck/goose, and the body is quite small beneath it all- hence I want a tight pattern.
So I put together some 1oz #7.5 reloads at 1250 fps and never looked back.. Once they're within reasonable shooting distance (decoys and calling helps) you'll be all over them. Any Corvid flying within 50 yards is dead, "right there"!
 
Went out for a crow hunt a few weeks ago,

Flock of crows - 1
Me - 0

I take a certain amount of redemption in your success

Congrats
 
How many crows have members here taken in their lives? Me...almost a thousand with varmint rifles...eight thousand...ish with shotguns in the past 30 years...never kept records for the first three or four years. Biggest one morning kill was 66 confermed kills, one shooter. Trap loads of 7 1/2 or 8's kill crows plenty good out to 50 yards..if ya can point that well. Heavy loads are too expensive, hard on the shooter in high volume shoots and waaaaay to loud as distant incomers get spooked off. Anyone that makes a claim that crows are hard to kill is shooting them with bigger shot.
 
1shot said:
Best thing to do is staple up a big sheet of paper or cardboard, at 40 yards and shoot for patterns.

Before I got into Crows I too used #4's and wondered why I was "missing" easy longer shots, so I went to the patterning board and found big holes in the pattern- try and remember that crows are flimsy and #7.5's penetrate deep. The feathers are not packed and stiff like a duck/goose, and the body is quite small beneath it all- hence I want a tight pattern.
So I put together some 1oz #7.5 reloads at 1250 fps and never looked back.. Once they're within reasonable shooting distance (decoys and calling helps) you'll be all over them. Any Corvid flying within 50 yards is dead, "right there"!
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I will definately have to do that yet. Weather is just too ####ty here in MB still.

lucky07 said:
6 or 7 1/2 will kill em good. They got little bodies under all those feathers that's why #2 shot is no good lol.
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Seems As though #7+- is the consensus.
I will definately have to give that stuff a shot I guess...
 
Onagoth said:
Went out for a crow hunt a few weeks ago,

Flock of crows - 1
Me - 0

I take a certain amount of redemption in your success

Congrats
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Hahahahahaha. Thanks, though, take some more redemption in this guys success:

M12shooter said:
How many crows have members here taken in their lives? Me...almost a thousand with varmint rifles...eight thousand...ish with shotguns in the past 30 years...never kept records for the first three or four years. Biggest one morning kill was 66 confermed kills, one shooter. Trap loads of 7 1/2 or 8's kill crows plenty good out to 50 yards..if ya can point that well. Heavy loads are too expensive, hard on the shooter in high volume shoots and waaaaay to loud as distant incomers get spooked off. Anyone that makes a claim that crows are hard to kill is shooting them with bigger shot.
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I'm personally at 3 lol, but I've never gone on a crow hunt. Just shot them as pests on the yard.

Haha, crows are hard to kill, because they are smart :p
 
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