CROWS---CROWS---CROWS

There are just tooooo many crows around.  I'd say by a factor of 10!

These bast%$ds also carry west niles disease.  When is the federal government going to lift the limit on these and recognise the disease pest they are?????

BEAR

Federal law gives the US a maximum of 120 days shooting.  In Pennsylvania you can only shoot on fri-Sunday.  season started last fri.

BEAR

Mr. Mom,

i hunt deer and geese inside the metro area (legally, but tough).  There are so many crows I avoid the 'hassle factor' of urban folks.   I just drive to the farms and look for a hundred or so in a field.  if i have the 222 I shoot about 3-4 before they get wise.  On shotgun days, i merely drive to the next ridge, setup the owl and 5 crow decoys....unpack the double 10 guage magnum, load it with 3 1/2 lead 4#.  Turn the electronic call on max and wait for 6 minutes.

The 'scout' always comes first.  there is two schools of thought:

1st-- let him fly dack to bring the rest in.

2nd school--- says kill him and the others will come to investigate.

I definitely belong to the 2nd school.  Dead crows tell no tails (tales??).  It is amazing how good their eye sight is.  I bury myself against a big tree and wear only cloths that match the bark color.  They can spot BDUs for 3 miles in a hardwood forest.

BEAR

Sent many of them to their maker with a Johnny Stewart caller!

We can hunt on fri sat and sun june 1 through end of feb. no limit. Never huntexd them but now reading what yall have to say about it it sounds fun.

 my father-in law told me how when he was a kid they would shoot them for bounty and take the money and get shells for the up comming duck seasom. on a real foggy day we go to the beach hills and the are flying low , you can get them with a .410... they say they use to roost in those hills , the they came along and blasted all the trees that they roosted in.most we ever got in half a day hunt was 18.. lot of road work.. best in 1 spot was 17 , but it was a 3 hour wait over a sweetcorn feild. we get 2 mths. in the fall and 2 mths in the early spring befor they nest.  the mexicans love it when we have a bunch of dead crows in the back of the truck..  you got to give it a try t.t.u.

 here is the way we work it..... first thing in the morning  .. i like to sleep in... but we set up just befor the sun comes up. we set up about 12 crow dec's and the last thing we set is the owl. we get the crow dec's up as high as we can , then set the owl in the middle on a post. i plug in a crow and owl fight tape. it get them going and they come in fast.. we also us mouth calls. we can get alot of volume out with those. after we get a few on the ground i switch to a wounded crow or the death cry tape. i have i think 6 crow tapes. everytime i see a new 1 out i have to get it.. latter in the day we use a single excited crow tape and no decoys. they will come in for a look.. we change chokes from mod. in the morning to full in the afternoon.. if anybody wants to check out a site , try www.crowbuster.com. they have what all the types of crow hunting stuff and diffrent set ups. my son took 1 of those weasel balls they had for the cat toy. he painted it black and got some rubber craft foam and made a rubber crow, then he glued it to the ball. when you turn it on and it flops on the ground it looks real.. cb told me 1 time to take a boonie hat and fill it with grass and put some golf balls in it to make it look like a nest.. sounds good but havent tryed it yet. crow hunting is a blast and the kids love it. also if you want to be a smart ass, take a dead crow or 2 and put it in a neighbor hood of a guy you cant stand. they will think there is a west nile out break.  ive dont it at our beach.. it keeps some of the out of staters out..  hope i dont sound like cj on this 1....

klallen: long time ago when i started to hunt , there was no closed season on crows. when my kids got old enough to hunt that was 1 of the first things they checked into.  cane to fined out there is a season now. something like 180 days. ours is made up of 2 seasons. 1 in the fall and 1 in the early spring befor nesting.  i have herd that there was a treaty signed with mexico because the were protected there and not here, and the same for the duck the fly to mexico and the had a loose limit on the ducks. so they came up with this. 1 thing we have to watch out here is we get a few ravins.. big ass crows.

BEAR,

I met up with your son, BEAR CUB, on Sat.  We went to a gun show in the area.  It's kind of funny... he mentioned your crow hunting experiences to me and next thing I know you're posting about it.  A friend of mine went with us to the gun show and he has hunted crows before.  He agrees with you - when the first crow comes in, unload on him until he is dead.  Hit him with everything you have, otherwise you won't be hunting any crows in that area.

Here is another way,

 Take one accurate rifle and bipod and set up (pick a yardage) away from a prominent tree. Have the driver place the electronic caller at the base of the tree. He also covers the shooter with a piece of sheet (snow on the ground) or burlap depending upon the cover, and hurries away to watch. The incomers will circle the sound but won't be able to see anything going on. After a short time they will land in the tree wondering what in blazes is making all that racket. POW! This works perfectly in our prairie country where an elevated shot is not a problem. The shooter is completely hidden and far enough away to get in a few shots. Dead crows on the ground sweeten the pot.

I have always wanted to stake out a cat, a white one maybe, with a crow decoy, out in a pasture and see what happens with the J Stewart caller going off.

In spite of the Federal law, out state allows a crow who is 'depredating, or about to depredate' crops or livestock to be shot, regardless of season. And we are blessed with some sensible law enforcement people on the ground.