Crow Hunting

lately I have been getting between rows of hay bails (wrapped in white plastic) We dress completely in white with white masks in winter of course.

My buddy has a nice blind, consisting of 3 sheet of thin plywood (likely Meranti) Two full sheets 4X8 with a 2x2 frame in side and the sides are alf sheets cut so that the top is 3 feet wide and the bottom is 4 feet. This is all held together with a hook and eye bolt. Comes apart and easily transportable.
it is painted all white, has 2 carry handles/lookout holes on both the front and back and has doors cut in both sides.
Works great. We were shooting crows at about 5-20 yds for the most part.
 
Was out this morning, put out 24 crow decoys ,dressed head to toe in Nat Gear snow camo . Just sat on a white bucket next to snow covered straw bales. It was a slow moring but ended the day with 18 crows . I had them over the dekes from 10 to 45 yrds. They liked the macdaddy call today from a cass creek caller.
 
M12shooter said:
Very, very good grow shooting footage KDX!
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I wish I could take the credit for it, but it wasn't me. I should have been a little clearer in the original post. It's a vid I came across linked from the Predator Masters website. It sure gives me ideas though.
 
Went out again testerday and today. Yesterday we got another 50 or so birds, quite an adventure, the batteries were dead in the FOX pro and we had to turn it on to get about 1 minute of play out of it as we didn'y have a back up call. We got a few starlings as well, lots of fun, we litteraly stayed until we ran out of ammo, about 500 rounds, I know the ratio to dead crows wasn't great but we had a bunch of shells we didn't want to take home.

Today was a different story, only fired about 50-60 shells each and killed about a dozen birds, it was very windy and they were hanging high. Most birds ended up being shot 2 or 3 times as they were all coming in as singles and were all on the same page and ended up shooting simultaneously for the most part.

They best part of the day, we had a crow fly across our shooting lane at about30 or so yards and my buddy and I fired about half a second apart, my shot killed it and his shot tore it in half. Sure wish we had video, the wind took the tail about 10 yds. the crow was dead and his tail and ass was still in the air!! I have no idea how a shot can cut a bird in half at 30 yds??? My only guess is the shot was frozen into a slug or something.
 
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I was out today at a small feedlot which I hunt crows fairly often. Wasn't planning on hunting today but I drove past and it was covered in crows. I pulled in , grabbed my gear [ which is always in the truck ] and headed in. I could only find about 40 shells rolling around the back seat . I walked in , scared off about 75 crows and set up nine decoys . I didn't bother using the calls today due to the high wind and the fact they were coming in really nice anyway. Ended the day with 31 crows out of 40 shells. In the picture, there is 25 because six landed in a marshy area which was flooded and I couldn't walk in and get them. It was a good but cold day.
 
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Fixed your image link for ya...

Nice shooting, we had a hell of a time connecting today, need to find some better cover to get them in closer. Where we were today, they wouldn't even look at us with the call turned off.
 
Ok, lately i've been having some troubles crow hunting. We've been having fun but not shooting the big numbers we're use to. I'm finding the crows are still flying in and flying unbelievably high...and hints on how to lower them. It's been super cold around here and it seems everytime i go out it's windy...could that be why? Sometime we resort to standing in the woods under a flight path and shooting them as they scream through the trees...it's a lot harder cause your window to shoot is that much smaller but it also adds a lot of excitement when u here them coming but dont know where they'll break through...I definantly recommend trying it!!!
 
nlevandier said:
Ok, lately i've been having some troubles crow hunting. We've been having fun but not shooting the big numbers we're use to. I'm finding the crows are still flying in and flying unbelievably high...and hints on how to lower them. It's been super cold around here and it seems everytime i go out it's windy...could that be why? Sometime we resort to standing in the woods under a flight path and shooting them as they scream through the trees...it's a lot harder cause your window to shoot is that much smaller but it also adds a lot of excitement when u here them coming but dont know where they'll break through...I definantly recommend trying it!!!
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Last week I was out on a windyday... same thing, I am guessing it was the wind.

To lower them, I would try a wounded crow decoy or a fresh carcass, a couple of buuy leftovers or some road kill might help.
For a wounded crow, I have tied a dead and draped it over a fence, a couple of tugs on the string for movement. Or you can stake one on a spring or piece of broken fishing rod... just pull the string!
 
Nice shooting. Sounds like you guys have been having fun. The crows don't come back till around Easter here in Sask., but I guess it all depends on the weather.
 
gth said:
How many times have you hit this same area?? Maybe you have educated these particular birds.
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The area we hunt in is very large and although we may only show up every other week or so, we never set up in the same place. it's basically two huge fields seperated by about a 50 metre line of trees running down the middle. last week we sat in the middle of the field in our white camo and had a hay-day.

what im thinking is that since we're still in the same vascinity, we're definantly shooting at the same crows so I do believe they've become super educated. still, fouled them last week!!
 
What are the regulations surrounding the hunting of crows? Only steel shot? Is there a season and/or bag limit?
 
Here on PEI , the only regs say that you can't use shot larger than steel t's or lead BB . Seven days a week , no limit cause they are considered a pest. I usually only hunt them in the winter , the more snow the better .
 
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