Went out July3 to hunt crows and feed the bugs when at daybreak while trying to call in some crows we got a gobble. Saw the tom beside the bush we were hunting and he was doing his strut in the heat. We are at 95 crows to date. If anyone else is hunting them now with mouth calls do you find they are harder to call in now than when nesting?
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Nighthawk39 said:That's not hunting...
your right its called killing stupid anoying crows, sometyime when you walk my property a group is cawing so loud you couldnt hear a person talk next to you theres is a good 500 crows out by my place most of the time.
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moose_hunter said:wth do you need to call a crow for i sit on my deck with the 12 guage and pick em off as they go over
im guessing your family is along the redneck type
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The Cold Lake Kid said:
i meant the redneck type that gets drunk all the time, makes moonshine and drives around in a truck shootin shotguns in the air...lol
i didnt mean the "normal" redneck type that are just calm rednecks....
I live in the southeast end of Ottawa where we have a pretty big flock of the noisy, dirty black b@$t@rds.
Last year, when I checked into it, I found out the urban flock in our neighbourhood is anywhere from 3 to 5 thousand.
Don't see as many this year, maybe the bird flu got them.
After a lot of bleating on the radio here in Ottawa about reporting in any dead crows etc I called in a few times to report the carcass' on the City's Service Centre 'phone line.
Operator asked me what I expected the city to do about it, this while I was listening to the radio Public Service announcements asking us to report any dead ones laying about at the number I had just dialed.
Ya gotta shake your head.
Last year, when I checked into it, I found out the urban flock in our neighbourhood is anywhere from 3 to 5 thousand.
Don't see as many this year, maybe the bird flu got them.
After a lot of bleating on the radio here in Ottawa about reporting in any dead crows etc I called in a few times to report the carcass' on the City's Service Centre 'phone line.
Operator asked me what I expected the city to do about it, this while I was listening to the radio Public Service announcements asking us to report any dead ones laying about at the number I had just dialed.
Ya gotta shake your head.
for you who hate cormorants, divert some of that to crows and feral cats(any cat more than 150yds from a house in the country) between the two they decimate the song bird, game bird and rabbit repoduction rate! Watch either one work a fenceline, they're a killing machine that needs to be brought back to proper numbers. They've been neglected by hunters far too long.I hunt near a sub-division and can see 5/10 cats in an afternoon and not a rabbit track. Before the houses and cats moved in I could usually get a pair of nice cottontails most weekends.. I've shot a big tom with a fox kit that was a fair size. Watched a flock of crows beat up on turkey pullets in an open field till a couple of crows were dead on the ground and they realised they were now the targets. Art
I call crows as I find they are a challenging bird to "hunt" I find the 22 hornet really does the number on them out to 150-200 yds in the fall when they are feeding in fields. A biologist once told me for every crow you kill you save 30 ducklings and various other baby birds. I love waterfowl hunting and I wish more peole would shoot crows.
I would shoot crows off of my deck but for some strange reason, they won't come near my back yard anymore.... go figure.
Go to Western Rivers Downloads and download some crow sounds, convert them to Wav files, burn them to CD and pick up a cheap portable CD player... works great.
I also use about 18 decoys and sometimes an owl, lat year I tried taking a dead crow, tying it to a string and haninging over a fence anfd then pull on the string to make it look like a wounded bird... drives them nuts.
Go to Western Rivers Downloads and download some crow sounds, convert them to Wav files, burn them to CD and pick up a cheap portable CD player... works great.
I also use about 18 decoys and sometimes an owl, lat year I tried taking a dead crow, tying it to a string and haninging over a fence anfd then pull on the string to make it look like a wounded bird... drives them nuts.
