Crow Hunting

I have a funny story. We have a couple foxes around the cottage that took a liking to peanuts that we throw out for the chipmunks. One day the fox was rummaging and eating peanuts when a couple of crows flew in and started cawing aggressively at the fox. Usually when they see me come out with a gun they exist stage left. This time they were so preoccupied with the fox and the peanuts that I came out with the 410 and feathers were flying.
Another time I winged a young crow with a 22lr and it started squaking, "I'm hit, I'm hit". I went towards the crow to finish it off when crow reinforcements came and it was a dive bombing aerial assault. Bastards were trying to #### on me. If I had a shotgun they would have paid. I hung the crow on a branch just to mess with them.
 
I have shot a large number of crows over the years, mostly with the 220 Swift.
Pure rapture to turn those black devils into a puff of black feathers. :)
They do educate quickly, and one has to be innovative to keep shooting them
with a rifle, but when I could shoot at a certain garbage dump many years ago,
I would average 3-4 a day, almost every day. Eventually they learned that
landing within 400 yards was dangerous. Regards, Dave.
 
My GHG crow dekes have an eye in the backs for hanging them. I take a spool of black dacron line, tie a large wheel nut to it and toss it as high as I can over a tree branch letting the line free spool and the nut fall to the ground. At that point I untie the nut and attach the line to one of those wire hooks you hang xmas balls on a tree with that has been hooked into the decoys eye. I then hoist the decoy up tight to the branch and tie off the spool to prevent the decoy coming back down. From a few yards back it looks for all the world like a crow sitting high in a tree. We split the rig about 50/50 in branches and on the ground then fire up the crow call. Often I start off with just my mouth call doing the morning three note greeting caw-caw-caw. I have shot many that way.
 
i use my voice . a low caw caw caw . they wonder who is doing that. they will land in a near by tree .thats when i get them .
 
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