In Michigan I have (3) 60 - 80 acre spots to run virgin birds and have no problems. Our season opens on the 1st of Feb. and I will also be running a ton of state land with some good friends that I have crow hunted with for almost 20 years. Been chasing them since we were 14 :)
Do you think they are call smart on public land?
In my opinion public land birds are no different.
It is still always about set -up and approach.
Maybe you thought I was going to come up with a different answer.
Thanks for your opinions. I have always gone back and forth on this topic.
They're birds. If you play your cards...a crow can't resist. They are creatures of the sky and from my experience they still charge on Public Lands with the same strategy for private land.
Brian
-- Edited by ublycrow on Tuesday 18th of January 2011 12:26:06 AM
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HAHAH...I know. My friends and I always joke about them maybe carrying a degree in crow calling. But we have never been able to attribute the high overhead flyers to state land birds... or birds that just watched us park the truck.
We always slay state land birds on or first stop...which is in the dark. When we jump to new spots from 9AM - Noon its a gamble.
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in tn, i often think im the only 1 hunting them. 1 wma is a great spot to start when they come off the roost (cut millet field). & after a hour or so another wma can b seen where theyre feeding in high numbers 20-30 (cut beans). people tell me they are to smart where i live cause they been shot at but i never see it. i believe u can get them.
We are about to do a little run and gun on public land. That I know of, there is only one other person around here that hunts them and he is my partner. And based on the one time I tried to hand call a little on the local WMA, I would say they have never been hunted.
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Heres my take::: I think its all about sound. I am convinced that crows never forget a sound. I may be way off but, I too hunt on public and private its about 60 40 with me the 60 being private ground. Although we will never know, I think a bandit never forgets a sound. Once called in and shot at with a sound they are leary. Fox pro sounds as well as JS sounds are universal. These birds hear these sounds all the way from Canada to Florida. I have noticed the obvious that the later in the season the harder they are to kill. I have been killing birds off the edge of this large roost down here all season. Now I can go down there and the birds turn away from my sounds no matter what I throw at them. I bought Bob A's CD a couple years ago and had my nephew download it to my caller. That made a difference for a while but these birds are now leary of those sounds. The only thing you can do is mix it up and keep going, I just need to travel farther from the birds in these 2 counties down here. I am gonna stop for 2 weeks and let it all rest then hit them again. I dont think that will help but thats all I can do. I still believe that a bird hears a sound once and if he comes to it and lives thru it he wont come back to it. That is why everybody stresses hand calling as much as they do.....
Unless you have a steady influx of new birds you need to wait at least 3 weeks between shoots....I know someone who was the bests acre crow i ever saw...the locals were so used to this man they used to stay out by the road never coming in towards this one fellow...and i watched him and the only crows I ever saw him shoot at were actual migrants at this point although it was nearly dried up...the migrants were getting few and far between...most by this time had arrived at their winter roosts...