Crow Hunting

Black Mallards

I shot crows 9 months out of 12.It's a great way to grove your swing with a 12ga.11/8oz. of 71/2 shot at 1425fps. will do it every time providing you connect.I average around 300 a year,my 3 yellow labs just love it.It keeps me and them in shooting and retrieving trim.Thank God for crows ,marmots and gophers in the off season.:beerchug:
 
.... It's too bad that here in "Beautiful B.C" to hunt Crows, you need a valid Hunting License. 'Had one years ago, but now the cost of having to take the full CORE course is cost prohibitive,for the time being. So, locally, the Crows are relatively,safe, at least for now ! ....... David K.
 
David, you can challenge the test for $10, and a $30 fee if you pass. Buying the manual to study is $14+tax or so. Not as bad as the course fee if you feel you don't need the instruction...
 
I have found many a laugh in watching a crow literally "Explode" whan tagged by a 50 Ballistic tip from one of my 220 Swifts. Most often, only the wings get to the ground, the rest just "floats off in the breeze" as another poster mentioned. Crows are smart. When they are shot at a lot, they learn how far out they have to perch to be relatively safe. One thing they don't realize is how much farther they need to be away on a very calm day. Then the Swift is dangerous to them out to 400+ yards. HA!! I was gopher hunting around Eckville Alberta some years ago, and the crows there were used to being poked at with 22 rimfires. They would feast on dead gophers as long as you were outside of 150 or so yards. I sure surprised a few of those with the 222, 22-250 and 220 Swift. One sure thing, we'll never run out of crows! Regards, Eagleye.
 
Eagleye, the impact of a 22 centrefire on a crow has that distinctive "WHOCK" sound. The remains of the crow are what my pal's and I call "pink steam". I have shot a wee bit over a thousand crow with my Sako varmint .222 and it's bigger brother the 22-250. Just can't gey enough of it!
 
Recently, I've discovered two buddies that have this addiction... They actually go out before work near the local dump and shoot crows... I think maybe I should join them, otherwise they are going to outshoot me come duck season...

Ha ha ha

Cheers
Jay
 
Bagged my first crow today!:) Well, not "bagged" really since it still 3/4 the way up a spruce tree. Used hubby's 22-250, dialed the scope back to about 75 yards~and there was nice puff of black feathers. Tried to find it on the ground first, couldn't see it hanging in the tree from the angle I was at. Husband came home and I told him about it so he went to look and there it was! I knew I hit it(the puff) but I'm glad he found it just the same.:dancingbanana:
 
I hear ya

When I was a kid in Essex, my friends and I used to do that all the time. Mostly with sling shots (we were only 10 or so) but once in a blue moon with a pump till your arms fall off from charging airgun. Usually in the Brickyard or by the Supior Propane fenceline. There's two really good places for ya!
FSgtBriggs said:
i usually use my more powerful .22 airgun for crows and it involves sitting in a tree line and plinking them off from a distance
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I hunt them mainly in the Winter and early Spring when not hunting other game (except snaring rabbits). I usually hide under a tree on a fenceline or edge of a field and I use a CD/cassette player with a Johnny Stewart crow/owl fight cassette, set it up in front of me off to the side to keep attention away from me and I set up 2 crow decoys and 1 owl decoy, put one crow right by the owl and the other farther away (I usually try to elevate the decoys so the crows can see them easier) and then I lean back against the tree and crank up the cassette, usually takes a few minutes for them to show up (but if you find thier flyway and hunt it it will take alot less time). I always wear full camo with facemask, gloves and everything (mossy oak breakup or a tree camo usually works best) and I use my 12ga. with #7.5-8 shot size. In the fall use full camo and a hand call and sit in the middle of the woods with a scoped .22 amd set up crow decoys on a dead tree and pick them off when they land.

Good Hunting;)
 
OK usually i wont write about every crow i shoot...but saturday i went out and this one landed right beside one my decoys so i shot at it from about 10 feet away and literally blew a hole right through it (#2 lead shot). i swear to god feathers were still flyign 10 minutes later lmao!!!
 
I just got my new FOXPRO FX3. I tried the crow fight and dying crow sounds.... wow they brought the crows in from all directions. Now I just have to get a day to go out with the decoys and blast a few.
 
frig the FOXPRO FX3 must have cost you a couple rolls of penny's eh? can safe to say your satisfied with your purchase. i looked into one after reading your blog but i guess they're over $400 bucks? what other calls did you get...i think it said you can choose 25.
 
nlevandier said:
frig the FOXPRO FX3 must have cost you a couple rolls of penny's eh? can safe to say your satisfied with your purchase. i looked into one after reading your blog but i guess they're over $400 bucks? what other calls did you get...i think it said you can choose 25.
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You are reading the US manufacturer's website from the sound of it, those are US prices. It's about $600 here once you factor taxes and shipping etc...

But they work, and they work well. You just have to work, and work hard - if you want one. ;)
 
I've hunted crows form time to time, very casually. (Mostly cal them in t my house and shot them from my woodshed hen i fele like it)

I naile d afew over the last coupel of days.

What do you serious crow hunters do after you shoot a crow from one blind? Pack up and head tp the next? Or will they come in all day to the same set up?
 
303carbine said:
My last crow was shot with a Remington 700 in .243 at 175 yards.:cool:
100 grain Hornady at about 3000 fps....bang poof. Not bang flop because I don't eat'em.:eek:
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"Flop" means the body lands on the ground. "Poof" suggests that there ain't a body left to hit the ground. :D

As far as eating them, as long as you don't order questionable dishes while eating out in Squamish, you *probably* aren't eating crow. :p

j/k of course, Gatehouse is a fantastic cook, and the drive to Squamish would be a small price to pay for one of his meals. :)
 
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