I had a nice thing happen this week, actually 2 nice things.
One farmer came into the diner where I typically drink coffee each morning. He came to the booth I sit in and said, " I was hoping to fing you here, I have been seeing about 250 crows..........come and kill those b&$t@&S!!!"
Another guy I know owns an apple orchard near my house. He lives in another state but called and asked me to kill the crows that are destroying his apple crop.
It just felt really good that these guys contacted me. After all of these years of begging for hunting permission, it has finally come full circle, ;)
Congrat's and hope you put a hurting on their Crows !
Last year I had a similar experience and it does make you feel good that your reputation is being rewarded.
Looking forward to hearing about the hunts.
I had a nice thing happen this week, actually 2 nice things.
One farmer came into the diner where I typically drink coffee each morning. He came to the booth I sit in and said, " I was hoping to fing you here, I have been seeing about 250 crows..........come and kill those b&$t@&S!!!"
Another guy I know owns an apple orchard near my house. He lives in another state but called and asked me to kill the crows that are destroying his apple crop.
It just felt really good that these guys contacted me. After all of these years of begging for hunting permission, it has finally come full circle, ;)
I'm having some modest success in getting new places to hunt in SW MI. Three new locations this year.
What kind of crop did farmer #1 have crow problems with?
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I had a nice thing happen this week, actually 2 nice things.
One farmer came into the diner where I typically drink coffee each morning. He came to the booth I sit in and said, " I was hoping to fing you here, I have been seeing about 250 crows..........come and kill those b&$t@&S!!!"
Another guy I know owns an apple orchard near my house. He lives in another state but called and asked me to kill the crows that are destroying his apple crop.
It just felt really good that these guys contacted me. After all of these years of begging for hunting permission, it has finally come full circle, ;)
I'm having some modest success in getting new places to hunt in SW MI. Three new locations this year.
What kind of crop did farmer #1 have crow problems with?
Farmer #1 is a dairy farmer, all corn and hay. He has watched the crows every spring walk up and down the rows of young corn and pluck them out one by one to eat the corn seed. This is when the corn is about 3" tall.
It just makes me feel good that he asked me. He saw me showing photos on my phone to other people in the diner, that's how he knew that I crow hunted. (he also said to come back in the fall to duck/goose/coyote hunt :)
Maine, congrats on the new locations.. what type of set up will you do? Feeding, etc???
I have pretty much switched to all feeding set-ups unless I'm just running and gunning. In my experience, when playing fights, attacks or distress set-ups, the crows come in hard, angry and on the look-out for trouble. They seem to see every little thing that's wrong with my blind, decoys, etc.. However, when I set up with a feeding set-up and play sounds of "happy and chilled-out" crows, they come in relaxed and suspecting nothing until the shots go off. In fact, lately, (the past year) I have been having my best results not playing any sounds at all, just put out some decoys and let them come in on sight alone. Possibly if I see crows in the distance, I'll blast a few loud crow calls with my voice, then when they turn towards the decoys, I shut up.
That's just my experience and what has been working for me.
Yep. Same for me.. feeding.. relaxed and calm.. and you can turn a few around to get a second look from time to time and you don't educate EVERY crow within "ear shot." perhaps, maybe sometime in the future you might get another shot at the ones you missed. best to you.. take some pics..and post if you will, please sir...
"Farmer #1 is a dairy farmer, all corn and hay. He has watched the crows every spring walk up and down the rows of young corn and pluck them out one by one to eat the corn seed. This is when the corn is about 3" tall.
It just makes me feel good that he asked me. He saw me showing photos on my phone to other people in the diner, that's how he knew that I crow hunted. (he also said to come back in the fall to duck/goose/coyote hunt :)"
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Good. One of my new places is a dairy farm where they also grow some sweet corn. Too bad that our season is too early in the year (FEB MAR) to use crow damage to young corn as an enticement to farmers--and I've heard their stories of how the crows do the seedling thing around here. However, he does have a couple of hundred acres of grass for hay upon which they spread manure from their dairy operations. The 25 or so crows I saw on their field following a "dump" is what attracted my attention. Thanks.
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"Arms are the only true badges of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave." -- Andrew Fletcher 1698
I had a nice thing happen this week, actually 2 nice things.
One farmer came into the diner where I typically drink coffee each morning. He came to the booth I sit in and said, " I was hoping to fing you here, I have been seeing about 250 crows..........come and kill those b&$t@&S!!!"
Another guy I know owns an apple orchard near my house. He lives in another state but called and asked me to kill the crows that are destroying his apple crop.
It just felt really good that these guys contacted me. After all of these years of begging for hunting permission, it has finally come full circle, ;)
The only way this could be better is if, Jennifer Anniston told you, if you shoot her crows, she would show you "special attention"!
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