Kegger, you aren't hunting in the Travis Supply hunt are you??
Tomorrow is gonna be a poor day for crow hunting no matter what in my opinion, around here high wind shuts them down, and they hate flying in it.........I actually don't pay a whole lot of attention to wind direction when hunting crows......my best setup defies all odds, and everything that you read because the crows fly in with the wind.........my blind is built with the wind in my face
-- Edited by Buckshot1822 on Friday 24th of February 2012 07:47:58 PM
My question today is how do crows react in the wind and what approach should we take on them. There is a crow hunt tomorrow and were expecting winds 25 to 30 mph. How do the crows act on days like this also high tempature is 32. Any advice on how we should hunt them? We planned on setting up in our favorite field with around 50 decoys we have made and purchased. Will they still be intrested in our flock in such conditions? It has worked every other time but idk about hunting them in this weather. Thank you!
Set up with the wind to your back. If you can get in between the decoys/caller and where the crows are coming from it will help also. Crows will hover in the wind on approach or will come in from behind you and J hook into the wind. Either way, if the caller and the decoys are behind you the shots will be right in your face.
Also if you can help them out by offering some cover they can get low and behind they seem to decoy better. They will use tree lines or hills to break the head wind if it is available.
Good luck.
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When it's windy (above 20 mph) it's tough to score on doubles, when the shot goes off "one flip and they are gone"
Thats when you will really see how a crow can manuver in mid air when his life depends on it.
I'm not sure if it's in the Adavanced Section or the Beginner Section on the Home Page but there is a good article I wrote years back that is called "Playing the Wind" I think this will give you some good ideas.
Bob A.
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Yes! wow small world buckshot. You guys in it? like i said its our first crow hunt still learning alot just started hunting them a month and a half ago and were hooked. And thank you everyone for your tips!
Yes! wow small world buckshot. You guys in it? like i said its our first crow hunt still learning alot just started hunting them a month and a half ago and were hooked. And thank you everyone for your tips!
Yea, we are in it......these 90 mph wind gusts are pretty nice.................I will have an old school camo Drake waterfowl hat on at the turn in.......with the weather we are supposed to have tomorrow, I wouldn't be surprised if it only took about 5 to win..............
wind can help, my buddy and i have had our best shoots on windy days. they seem to set up in the same spots for ez 1st shots and they don;t pick up your movement as well because everything is moving , good luck
some of my best shoots were on very windy days with crows hovering in mid air, like Bob said, they will be gone so fast it will make your head spin if they bust you,thats why we try to really limit our movements even after shooting one, if they don't see you, you're golden for the next shot, it's movement more than noise that will flare them, we had one memorable windy hunt where we didn't have a choice but to hunt on the edge of standing corn with decoys out in front of us in the short grass,wind was coming from our left to the right, so I set the dekes off to left of our hide about 15- 20 yds,alot of the birds were coming from the right, into the wind slowly and really looking over everything and they seemed to hang up after a while 20 yds from the dekes,RIGHT ABOUT IN FRONT OF US! nice
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When it's windy (above 20 mph) it's tough to score on doubles, when the shot goes off "one flip and they are gone"
Thats when you will really see how a crow can manuver in mid air when his life depends on it.
I'm not sure if it's in the Adavanced Section or the Beginner Section on the Home Page but there is a good article I wrote years back that is called "Playing the Wind" I think this will give you some good ideas.
Bob A.
This was devastating one year given things were so tight I'd be shooting into the sun and only two directions I could shoot towards...this one day...it was incredible and I missed a lot academically....but it was one of the few days to get out!
Just how I like them "low and slow"