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[lilwes278]

Who's gonna be out bustin' crows? Been seeing TONS of them near some spots we hunt, hopefully saturday morning will be a good one!

[peeker seeker]

Do you eat them ? Got to have that bird stamp right. I may do that this sunday .

[Cranky Farmer]

I wish I could shoot them here on the base!

[ShooterJohn]

I hope to be able to get out and shoot some before the season runs out. I'm not sure how much I'll be able to do after they put my new hip in this coming week. But I dearly love to hunt crows. It's a real passion of mine and they seem to be returning in decent numbers since the West Nile Virus cleared them out last year. Take a cardboard crow decoy painted flat black until you knock a few down. Or an owl decoy works great. Any decoy sure helps. Good luck to those of you that get go.

[Heywood]

...after they put my new hip in this coming week. ...

Good luck with that. You'll be laid up for a bit but then you'll be back better than before. My wife had hers done 2 years ago at Sutter Memorial and everything came out great. I'm sure her surgeon would freak at the activities she does now but you only live once. At the info class they give she was easily the yougest in there by half.

[ShooterJohn]

Good luck with that. You'll be laid up for a bit but then you'll be back better than before. My wife had hers done 2 years ago at Sutter Memorial and everything came out great. I'm sure her surgeon would freak at the activities she does now but you only live once. At the info class they give she was easily the yougest in there by half.

I was by far the youngest in my class too. My doctor said today that he's been after me for seven years to do this. Time sure flies, but it's defiantly time for it now. It has to be 100 times better than it is right now. Thanks for the well wishes and I'm glad to hear your wife is doing so well.

[Shoot-it]

I am going too try and go out and shoot a few . I do have a owl I have watched a few swoop down on it before . One time I put a robo duck in a alfalfa Field and they came in by the hundreds I wasn't well hidden so they stayed high. I think they are attracted by the reflect and moving wings I was thinking on putting the robo in the owl and see what happens..

[ShooterJohn]

That would be a great decoy and really get the crows going.

[lilwes278]

Clampdaddy's got a bag of crow decoys, but we stopped by Harbor Freight about a week ago and they had a fake owl with a moving spring-mounted head that's supposed to keep birds out of your garden. Very nicely painted, looked like it would make an excellent decoy. I think it was only $12, and I should have picked one up... Think I might run back up there today to see if they still have 'em.

[ShooterJohn]

I bought a couple of the same ones at Wal-Mart a couple of years back and they work great. Nothing like playing the crow owl fight on my FoxPro and having that decoy set out on a post. It really draws them in.

[lilwes278]

NICE!!!

[Thumper Dunker]

I like to put a rabbit skin in front of the owel decoy works great. crow hunting is too easy John good luck with the operation.

[natural]

DB and I are gonna try'em on saturday. Will let ya'll know how it goes...-Andy-

[Fjold]

Wifezilla bought a fake crow (made with chicken feathers dyed black) at a Halloween store for a decoration. We put it out on the porch roof in the middle of the afternoon and a hour later I had about 40 crows perched on the neighbor's houses, screaming at it.

[lilwes278]

Stopped in at a Modesto sporting goods store this afternoon (right next door to Harbor Freight, for you locals). Last week they had 30 cases of crow decoys (30 cases x 6 decoys in each case = 180 total). Today they had exactly 5 decoys left. I did get an owl decoy from them though, as HF was sold out on theirs. Good idea on the rabbit skin! No skins here though, think they'll fall for a coyote tail instead?

[ShooterJohn]

Cut a flying crow shape from a piece of cardboard and spray paint it black. Lay it on the ground that's all you need.

[Cranky Farmer]

Put one of them up in an elevated position, too. Crows always have at least one "scout" that is always looking for trouble. The scout will help put them at ease and make them come in a little better.

[lilwes278]

Well, we got out to the field about 6:15am, set up the decoys & call (thanks to camoghost for the Foxpro, it worked perfectly!), then had a cup of coffee to warm up. Started the call with "crow fight" about 6:30am and within 2 minutes we had crows circling above us. Had ALOT of high-fliers, but we ended up with 31 crows by 9:30am. Birds started slowing down and breakfast sounded good, so we packed up and made it back home by 10:00am. Not bad for about 3 hours of shootin' though... Hope everyone else had good luck too, let's see some pics!

[bzzrd feedr]

Good Job! They are fun and smart, which makes it more fun. Get a depredation permit and then you can shoot out of season and with a rifle I think, at least we used to be able to. Did you stooley the dead one's for added decoys?

[Shoot-it]

great job guys ! did you have cover or were you in the open from the pic not much too hid in. What kind of shoguns are they.

[lilwes278]

great job guys ! did you have cover or were you in the open from the pic not much too hid in. What kind of shoguns are they.

You can't see it in the pic, but there's some farm equipment that's been parked beside the field for months so we had a great spot hiding in some weeds between two flatbed trailers. Even the guy I know that owns the property was really suprised at how many we got. I think Matt was shooting his Remington 870, and I had my cheap-but-reliable Mossberg 500. This was the first time we've hunted this spot and it's not very big, but it turned out to be even better than I hoped. Funniest part was that the field had just been plowed a few days ago so several of the birds that came down head-first just stuck in the ground, feet sticking up in the air! We'll probably be back out there again next weekend but hopefully next time we'll have a little fog to help bring the birds in lower... I'm suprised nobody else has posted up... Were we the only ones that made it out for crows today?

[clampdaddy]

Yeah, it was a pretty good morning. I can't wait 'til we get some really thick fog to get the birds in closer. I know most folks only use turkey chokes for turkey but I swear by 'em for crow hunting on clear days. I pretty much use it for everything but dove/quail.

[keale73]

I went out to Eastman Lake yesterday evening and got skunked. Could not get them to come down low enough. Not a whole lot of crows but they are big! I also did not have a decoy. Need to get one.

[ShooterJohn]

Hey you guys did good! Nothing like having a FoxPro with some crow calls on it. I've five different crow calls on mine and I rotate them to keep the same birds coming back. For being such a smart bird they can sure be stupid sometimes. I can't wait to be able to get out. Seeing those crows gets my blood going! It's a real rush when they're circling and squawking at each other.

[Camoghost]

Great going!! Glad it all worked out and thanks for filling my request... Pic's of the kills!