I hunted with Jim Lundquist and Bob Cook that season. Here are how the hunts break down.
November.... 559 Jim & I, 284 Jim & I, 368 Jim & I, 475 Jim & I, 308 Just me solo, 308 Bob Cook & I, 269 Bob Cook & I, 284 Bob Cook & I, 108 Just me solo.
December.... 186 Just me solo, 117 Just me solo, 306 just me solo, 289 Just me solo, 103 just me solo, 246 just me solo, 307 just me solo.
January.... 205 just me solo, 423 just me solo, 536 Tedd Kimmel & I, 400 just me solo, 224 just me solo, 380 just me solo, 404 Bob Cook & I, 104 Bob Cook & I.
February... 114 Bob Cook & I, 142 Bob Cook & I, 242 Just me solo, 141 just me solo.
We had an average of 239 crows per hunt that season.
I made a note in my journal that year that the five best seasons (just my totals) at that time were 1979 - 4,000 crows, 1993 - 5,280 crows, 1995 - 4,920 crows, 1996 - 4,768 crows, 1997 - 6,349 crows.
This is part of crow hunting history.
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A guy tends to remember the really good shoots and forget the crappy ones! However there are a few bad hunts that I remember as well, Dick & I setup 3 times one day about 5 years ago and only killed 6 crows! That is 2 crows per setup, I wanted to slit my wrists that day! But anyone who says they do well all the time is being less than truthful. It's all part of the game.
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We are getting started this weekend down South on some new properties, hope to have a good report and some pics of some crows that have gotten lead poisoning.
You have an astute sense of observation, that crow folded up a micro second after the shudder on the camera went off. If you look very closely at that photo you can see feathers coming out of the tail end (not tail feathers) of the bird.
So, have you been on your first hunt yet?
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Amazing numbers Bob. 437 by yourself in one day.......that is almost a whole season for me and my buddy.......
I am talking about a few dozen days, several set ups in our run~n~gun area.
We started last Friday, got 42, one quick set up while scouting around the rain Saturday got 9 more, then another 21 on Monday. We could have gotten more on Saturday, but did not like our set up, and had a lot of crows in the area, so we decided to leave as opposed to educate them.
Lots of lake effect snow in western New York State.
It's like two different worlds back there, the folks in Upstate New York are very nice friendly people. You get down around Long Island and especially New York City, Brooklyn and the Bronx it changes drastically.
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I was raised in Long Island and hated going to visit my two grandmothers (one in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan) the stench of the city made me sick. The exhaust from the busses would choke a horse!
As an adult what I find funny is that some folks on Manhattan Island think people from Kansas are hicks, the funny part is a lot of these people have never been off Manhattan Island in there entire life! Some might get to the other five burrows or even the tri state area but that is it! So you have to ask yourself who are really the hicks?
Being in the country in Up State NY was like I never left Kansas, really good people. Big difference between NYC and NYS !
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