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Post by deadeer on Jul 9, 2014 0:14:20 GMT -5
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Post by josephwrealty on Jul 9, 2014 13:41:42 GMT -5
New season opened July 1st. Time to put the fox pro and 870 to use.
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Post by vikings on Dec 19, 2015 10:03:03 GMT -5
PBS did a show on Crows. They are actually one of the smartest animals. They proved that they can recognize individual human faces. It was a fascinating documentary! Metamora seen that documentary very inteligent birds |
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Post by vikings on Dec 19, 2015 10:08:32 GMT -5
Seen that documentary very smart animals excellent show about them.
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Post by oldshotty on Dec 12, 2017 18:27:49 GMT -5
This is an old thread but it has a lot of good information so in honor of the winter crow season which opens tomorrow I thought I would bring it back to life instead of starting from scratch. I started hunting the black buggers this summer and I had a blast. I spent the summer season learning the ropes with the FoxPro and how to set a good stand. If you haven't hunted crows yet you need to try it, its a lot of work, when they come into the call the action is fast and furious. Once I learned how to find and hunt them and got the hang of calling I started working on making better stands. Crows have great vision and concealment is definitely a key to success, they do things in the air that I didn't know birds could do like stop in mid air and I swear they can fly sideways, I kid you not. I played around with chokes and shot size but I'm not sure it really made a difference, in the end just shoot what you shoot well and they will fall, its more about getting them close and creating good shots.
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Post by greghopper on Dec 12, 2017 18:53:50 GMT -5
How do they Taste?
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 12, 2017 19:44:18 GMT -5
I’m sure you’ve eaten some crow. Can you tell us some good recipes? They are an absolute blast to hunt and it’s not as easy as some may think. |
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Post by greghopper on Dec 12, 2017 20:15:38 GMT -5
I’m sure you’ve eaten some crow. Can you tell us some good recipes? They are an absolute blast to hunt and it’s not as easy as some may think. No I usally serve it up.....your probably the best at telling us the taste! please do... lol  BTW....Got any updated "Fake" NASCAR news to share with us...?   |
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Dec 12, 2017 20:43:29 GMT -5
I usually eat my crow at the nascar races, so that way no one else is there to watch me. Can you site the sources for this crow you’ve served up?
For real though I don’t know that I could try a crow.
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Post by esshup on Dec 13, 2017 0:21:50 GMT -5
This is an old thread but it has a lot of good information so in honor of the winter crow season which opens tomorrow I thought I would bring it back to life instead of starting from scratch. I started hunting the black buggers this summer and I had a blast. I spent the summer season learning the ropes with the FoxPro and how to set a good stand. If you haven't hunted crows yet you need to try it, its a lot of moving and when they come into the call the action is fast and furious. Once I learned how to find and hunt them and got the hang of calling I started working on making better stands. Crows have great vision and concealment is definitely a key to success, they do things in the air that I didn't know birds could do like stop in mid air and I swear they can fly sideways, I kid you not. I played around with chokes and shot size but I'm not sure it really made a difference, in the end just shoot what you shoot well and they will fall, its more about getting them close and creating good shoots. I did a lot of crow hunting when I lived in Ca. A veal farmer was in the winter roost flight path and he'd have literally 1,000's of crows flying over his farm. 3 or 4 of us would hide in the eucalyptus tree line and put out about 50 decoys and an owl decoy. We would average about 100 birds down every time we set up there. #7 and #6 shot is what we used (lead) and very few birds were alive when they hit the ground. If you use a dog to retrieve them, be careful. I had to pry ones beak open after it latched onto my Springer Spaniels lip as she was bringing it back, and I was told that they could peck at the dog's eyes. So, I quit using the dogs. The dog would pounce on a live bird like a cat, roll it around on the ground so she could grab it from the back. She learned to do that so she wouldn't get spurred by a live pheasant....... The other ones I had weren't so smart and would grab the bird any which way, which is why I had to pry the beak open. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2017 7:34:52 GMT -5
The Franciscan brothers near my house would pay me a quarter for each one when I was young. They would add it to their meal, so I don't know if I ever ate some. They would share with me sometimes. Payment: dime for rat, quarter for crow, 50 cents for squirrel, and a dollar for a rabbit. That was back in very late 60's and 70's. It was better pay than cutting grass and a I learned a lot about hunting that I didn't realize until I got older.
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Post by raymar on Dec 13, 2017 21:33:40 GMT -5
Some of my favorite hunting memories were with my grandfather and a old Johnny Stewart 45 record player caller I still have. He would usually cuss that thing for an hr till it worked and he let me do the calling. I still get it out once in awhile just for fun to call a few crows.
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Post by moose1am on Dec 14, 2017 10:38:13 GMT -5
Some of my favorite hunting memories were with my grandfather and a old Johnny Stewart 45 record player caller I still have. He would usually cuss that thing for an hr till it worked and he let me do the calling. I still get it out once in awhile just for fun to call a few crows. When I was in High School and first started hunting squirrels and rabbits I read about predator hunting crows, foxes and such in a Herter's Guide Book. I wanted one of those record players made by Johnny Stewart. His calls are some of the very best IMHO. They work. Fast Forward about 40 or 50 years and I ended up buying a Johnny Steward PM4 caller and some of the crow call computer call chips. I set up a owl decoy in the back yard on top of a tomato steak under the maple trees in the back yard and started up the Johnny Stewart call with a crow/owl fight call. The local crows with roost nearby as I always see them around the house came into investigate and starting flying around the back yard attacking the owl decoy. If I had a shotgun I could have shot a bunch of them. But the people in the houses around me would not appreciate me shooting any type of gun in the neighborhood. So I just had to enjoy the view. I use a remote control and stayed hidden inside the house. After a few minutes the crows figured out it was a ruse and they left. They are harder to fool now. I called in a big owl one night using the mouse squeaker call on that PM4 unit. The owl hung around the front yard for 30 minutes trying to figure out where the mouse sound was coming from. I hid the PM4 on a metal chair on the front porch. The owl landed on the boxwood bush next to the front porch. I was looking out the front window from my living room when the owl landed on top of that bush at eye level with me. It scared the hell out of me when it first flew into my line of vision. I later flew and landed on my mail box out by the road. Then it flew and landed on my neighbor's basketball goal and continued to look for that mouse it thought it was hearing. I had the PM4 covered up with something while it was sitting on the chair on the front porch. |
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Post by oldshotty on Jun 28, 2018 10:01:26 GMT -5
Crow season opens this Sunday July 1 at noon. I'm going to clean the Ithaca tonight and swap out the skeet choke for an extended full I picked up from Briley. Also need to run up to the Bass pro shop and get a couple box's of #6 heavy field loads and some new gloves and batteries for the Foxpro. I love hunting crows as much as pheasant or waterfowl.
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