Crow hunting

I counted 6 crows in my backyard at once tonight. I had none around last year. I had all kinds of birds previous years, including cardinals, cedar waxwings and goldfinches (even lots of starlings and grackles which didn't seem to bother the other birds). This year nothing but crows. I would shoot them from my back patio as well, but it seems they frown on that within Guelph city limits.
 
i would shoot the crows in my backyard BUT i can never get the grouping right on my quiet pellet gun........i mounted the scope on using a butter knife. however i am not a redneck, im just to lazy to go buy a better fitting scope!
 
Last winter I was set up in a beef lot for crows and during a lull in the activity, I noticed movement and here was a red fox picking up the dead crows. Mr fox walks up to a crow not six feet from my foot , gives me a frig you look and grabs the crow. The 11/8oz of #8's caught him at a range of twenty feet. I then took the fox and put him in the middle of the crow decoys [ 24 ] with a dead crow in his mouth. This absolutly drove the incoming crows NUTS along with a death cry playing. Ended up with 45 that morning.
 
huntingike said:
Last winter I was set up in a beef lot for crows and during a lull in the activity, I noticed movement and here was a red fox picking up the dead crows. Mr fox walks up to a crow not six feet from my foot , gives me a frig you look and grabs the crow. The 11/8oz of #8's caught him at a range of twenty feet. I then took the fox and put him in the middle of the crow decoys [ 24 ] with a dead crow in his mouth. This absolutly drove the incoming crows NUTS along with a death cry playing. Ended up with 45 that morning.
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I might just have to get a Fox decoy made..... I wonder what the taxidermist would charge??
 
JAMO said:
i would shoot the crows in my backyard BUT i can never get the grouping right on my quiet pellet gun........i mounted the scope on using a butter knife. however i am not a redneck, im just to lazy to go buy a better fitting scope!
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Do you have a break open pellet gun? and if so, do you the scope mounted on the BBL or the reciever?

Reciever mounted scopes on a break action will never be terribly accurate, as the reciever usually dos not line up with the scop, I put a cheap red dot on a Baikal air gun, it works great. On the baikal you can remove the rear sight which is on a "tip off" base and mount the scope directly.
 
huntingike said:
Last winter I was set up in a beef lot for crows and during a lull in the activity, I noticed movement and here was a red fox picking up the dead crows. Mr fox walks up to a crow not six feet from my foot , gives me a frig you look and grabs the crow. The 11/8oz of #8's caught him at a range of twenty feet. I then took the fox and put him in the middle of the crow decoys [ 24 ] with a dead crow in his mouth. This absolutly drove the incoming crows NUTS along with a death cry playing. Ended up with 45 that morning.
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This has been my uncle's favorite "technique" for coyote for the past few years, blast crows with a .22 until a 'yote shows up ... Sadly, yotes are not in season here yet :( .

http://www.mrnf.gouv.qc.ca/english/...ng-regulations/calendar-limits/small-game.asp
 
mtallman said:
These pesky creatures are getting on my nerves. I have gotten woken up at 5 am for the past few days.
Is there anything I can do about them in my neighbourhood?
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I have been waken up at 6AM every morning for the past 2 weeks. I have my pellet gun beside my bed so I usually give em a crack and go back to bed.:rolleyes:
 
bill c68 said:
I would shoot crows off of my deck but for some strange reason, they won't come near my back yard anymore.... go figure.
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Haha, I really don't think that is something to be worried or complain about! :p
 
It sucks where I live, in the burbs, Crows all over the place , can't touch 'em.:rolleyes: They can rip into a garbage bag to find a scrap of food that did not make it to the compost like nothing I have ever seen. Only my Lab does a better job.:rolleyes: :D
 
Funny, I've not seen many crows when shootin gophers this year. See them along the roadside now and then, but never in the fields.

I shot a single magpie, but he was over 300yds away thinking he was safe ;)

They seem to avoid humans around here, and stay well out of range. Even when the field is scattered with lots of yummy gopher carcasses.

I won't shoot at them with any of my centerfire rifles (or rimfire, for that matter) when they're perched in trees or on poles, for obvious reasons
 
I shot a flying magpie at a little under 100yds with my 10/22. I was on a hill and he was flying about 10 ft off the ground in the valley below me. Another gunnut witnessed it (skyedog). I was pumped,he couldn't believe it and the magpie didn't know what hit him.
 
bill c68 said:
Do you have a break open pellet gun? and if so, do you the scope mounted on the BBL or the reciever?

Reciever mounted scopes on a break action will never be terribly accurate, as the reciever usually dos not line up with the scop, I put a cheap red dot on a Baikal air gun, it works great. On the baikal you can remove the rear sight which is on a "tip off" base and mount the scope directly.
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im not to knowledgable when it comes to mounting so im not sure what your talking about so here's a picture

the thingy you attach the scope to is too small so i put a butter knife on to compensate :cool:

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Strange indeed .. a butter knife .. Well, looks like we are heading for an "Air" forum any way ... so here goes ... If you're going to mount a scope on an air rifle, spend the extra $12 - $15 and get a couple of blocks. Put one behind the front mount and one behind the back mount. Crowded on the rail indeed but a must. I was rattling my scope off after 15 - 20 shots (literally was sliding off) which doesn't do anything for acuracy. I put on one block, not good enough, needed two and lock-tight to keep it on. Unfortunately I have not found a "cheap scope" that will hold up on an air rifle, so dont' waste your money on one, get a good one to begin with. The forward and reverse recoil of a spring pellet gun is vicious and will destroy a cheap scope.
 
I hate the little bastards...CAWWW CAWWW CAWWW...then they ATTACK my car!!!!
I keep it in the garage...if I move it to the front of the house, or the side, or behind the garage, tons of birds sh!t all over it...maybe cause it's always so shiny cause I keep it clean.
I want revenge for all those times I had to rinse it off. What would make a crow go BOOM the best? Will a .22LR 10/22 be sufficient or should I bust out a 12 guage and birdshot? :D
 
On the topic of crows, can an Ontario hunter answer this:

I have a property just north of the French River - this puts it in Northern Ontario per the MNR. The 2006 Regs (on page 79) state that a residents license to hunt small game is invalid in Northern Ontario and part of Central Ontario from June 16 to August 31.

To hunt American crow, brown-headed cowbird, common grackle, house sparrow, red winged blackbirds and starlings requires a small game license.

Short of calling the MNR in hopes of someone there knowing why, anybody here have the quick answer?
 
JAMO said:
im not to knowledgable when it comes to mounting so im not sure what your talking about so here's a picture

the thingy you attach the scope to is too small so i put a butter knife on to compensate :cool:

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I thought that you used the knife as a screwdriver.... how does that even stay on?

You can get that same red dot scope with smaller mounts on it (tip off mounts which are designed for a .22 as opposed to weaver style mounts)
 
bill c68 said:
I might just have to get a Fox decoy made..... I wonder what the taxidermist would charge??
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A local guy [ closer to you ] did a coyote decoy for us at a very reasonable price. Even a fox pelt tanned with borax stapled to a 2x4 frame would work. I cranked a yote last year as well when I was crow hunting. It's the one in my avatar , with a 17 hmr , my cripple killer.
 
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