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Hello there from Germany. My buddy skogman told me about this forum and as I have known the crowbusters website for years, I kind of never realized that you had a forum going here.. well, I registered and am looking forward to learning a lot about crow hunting and sharing my humble experience of only four years crow hunting.

I hunt in Germany and shot my crows over decoys most of the time. This season I have started to use my .222 a lot more and also did a few mini decoy spread run and gun things..

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A few impressions what my way of crow hunting looks like:

decoying in october:
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crowhunting in november with a good friend:







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out and about with the crow call:

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Me, my .222 and the crows:

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and the occasional magpie..
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and magpie and crow

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Welcome to crowbusters!! Those are some nice pictures. Thanks for sharing. What type of duck/goose decoy is that? Do you find it gives the crows confidence?? Thank You.

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Hi November,

Welcome aboard...  You will enjoy our organization and we appreciate your posts and photo's.

Is your .222 an Anschutz?  I have one of those in .22 Hornet and it is a wonderful rifle.  What load do you use in your .222 and tell us about your scope?

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Welcome from Mississippi!!

Beautiful country side y'all have there. Just how many crow decoy's do you normally set out??

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i wish i had ur decoys! ive always wanted to shoot 1 with a .22 mag with a scope. i like the magpies. ive never heard of them much. i did see a cartoon once with magpies. lol

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Love the pics! Thanks, and welcome aboard!

Skip.

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welcome from upstate NY, how many dekes u using ? I notice ur using hi base shells, what shot size ? nice looking dogs ! Jerry

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Great pics and setups!!!! Love that short hair!! Nice to have you on board!! How is the wood pigeon shooting over there?smile

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Welcome; from across the mud puddle
Great pics
Awesome

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Welcome! Great Post.  I work for Daimler and all my colleagues are from Germany.  Lots of restrictions on getting a gun and license there.  I'm sure you have done your homework to create such a nice position hunting Germany! Great post with awesome pics

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SHANEDOG wrote:

... How is the wood pigeon shooting over there?smile

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Excellent photos to both of you.

I have a question about your decoys.

Are they very expensive over there? Here a good crow decoy cost about $10 U.S.

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Nice pics guys and welcome to CB november. Your magpies look exactly as ours here in Canada.

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welcome to the forum November...


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cool pictures!

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Mainehunt wrote:



I have a question about your decoys.

Are they very expensive over there? Here a good crow decoy cost about $10 U.S.

 depends on which decoys you use and also when you bought them. With the rising interest in crow hunting, decoys became a lot cheaper.

I started out with flocked sportplast decoys which were roughly $20/decoy. I also importet a few of the large Avery Greenhead Gear Crow Decoys which cost me including shipping and tax about $25. A few years back we found out, that just putting a black sock over the cheapest crow decoy you can find works as good as any flocked decoy - so cheap crow decoys are around $3-4/each, socks aren't that expensive too... 

still, regarding quality, I haven't seen anything as good as the Avery decoy

 

I don't know if this is of any interest, we put up this "crowhunting wiki" some months ago, there is an article on decoys including pictures:

http://kraehenwiki.wikispaces.com/Lockkrähen



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Is your .222 an Anschutz?  I have one of those in .22 Hornet and it is a wonderful rifle.  What load do you use in your .222 and tell us about your scope?

 

yep, it is an Anschütz. I use a 3.24gram soft point by RWS, scope is a nikko stirling nighteater 4-16x50. not exactly the best scope but for daytime hunting it works out just fine



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8fishermen wrote:

 Just how many crow decoy's do you normally set out??

 

35 - 60, depending on my mood, laziness and several other factors ;) 



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and because I like looking at pictures, here are a few from the last season:

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"magpie in distress" call, magpie roughly 10 feet above me, instant featherball:

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and here comes the transition to traditional german hunting..

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here we go, tradition at its finest, 16gauge side by side 

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November: Great photos! Keep them coming! I can see you enjoy being behind the camera... I do too. Welcome to our very fine site. You will meet lots of good guys.. get all the advice and more.. you ever wanted. Don't hesitate to share with us... All crow hunters are members of the same brotherhood.

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welcome, and thanks for the photos!

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November,

I see in one of your photos that you shot a nice looking piebald crow. That crow had quite a bit of brown feathers on his back and wings; are you going to get it mounted?

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November; nice sxs, what make ?

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Bob wrote:

November,

I see in one of your photos that you shot a nice looking piebald crow. That crow had quite a bit of brown feathers on his back and wings; are you going to get it mounted?

Bob A.

 it's not a piebald, just a young one. they still have the brownish downs(?) on the back until mid-august. 

what we have are a variety of the corvus corone which is called hooded crow, although they live in the eastern part of europe, we sometimes have hybrids over here. they look like this:

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shaddart wrote:

November; nice sxs, what make ?

 Simson Suhl, built in the early 1950s. nothing fancy but does the trick ;)



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Nov,

Those are some really nice pics. You are a great asset to the site. Thanks for sharing your photos from the other side of the pond.



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Wow, I've never seen that many deeks out for a crow hunt. The oak leaves among the dead hanging crows, is that a European tradition of sorts?

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M12Shooter wrote:

Wow, I've never seen that many deeks out for a crow hunt. The oak leaves among the dead hanging crows, is that a European tradition of sorts?

Ted

 I'm wondering also the significance of the Oak leaves.

 

Also, do you happen to have a phot of a cheap decoy covered in a black sock? Sounds like a great idea.



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Mainehunt wrote:

Also, do you happen to have a phot of a cheap decoy covered in a black sock? Sounds like a great idea.

 have a look at this:

 

http://www.wildundhund.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=63579&p=1458480&hilit=socken#p1458480

 

flocked vs socked:

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November, like the sock idea, love that sxs !

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November:

I really like the sock idea!  And great images!  Are those Nova pumps?



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Lone Star Phil wrote:

November:

!  Are those Nova pumps?

 yep, i use a benelli supernova, has roughly 5-6.000 shots through it in the past 18 months since i bought it. had a remington 870 express before that and must say that the benelli is by far the better shotgun

 

past weekend's hunt:

 

 

 

 

 



-- Edited by november on Thursday 23rd of February 2012 12:06:39 AM

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