Take the time to practice with your shotgun so you make the most of the chances you get in the field.
Learn how to approach people so you can get permission to hunt on there land.
2. Be patient:
It all takes time and sometimes we may look like a fool but the important thing to remember is that failure is sometimes a good thing, you can learn from it if your smart.
3. Put your heart into it:
Walk the walk, just don't talk the talk.
You do what ever it takes to achieve your goals you set for yourself. Just don't dream about it, make it happen!
4. The people you meet on your crow hunting journey through life:
If you have found a good partner that loves the sport as much as you do then you have found a gold mine. This is not an easy task because so many other factors come into play here such as family obligations, the job and how much time your partner can devote to the sport with you. What his budget is and how much he can spend during the crow season. Are you both compatible?
The land owners you get to know over the years and the welcome feeling you get when they see you at the start of each new season.
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To listen to this radio talk show go to episode 12, Bob Aronsohn
If all goes as it should, you end up making very good friends from the land owners whose ground you shoot over, and if you're lucky, other invites from friends and acquaintances of theirs too :)
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Good topic Bob.
With me its just being able to participate in this great sport, all aspects of crow hunting have rewards and failures. A worthy challenge, whether it's a 10 bird hunt on tough ground or green birds that cover you up. I'm happy just to get to hunt.
I would have to say it's who you hunt with. One of my most memorable hunts was about as non productive as it could get. Sitting in the shade with my brothers dive hunting and they just wouldn't come in. But we are all older and getting married/having kids that we don't get to spend as much time with each other in the woods anymore. We shot 4 birds all day but still had one of the best hunts I can remember.
I like the fall of the year. Cool damp air after a hot summer, the smell of decaying leaves and such...and the colours. Green birds, light wind and the sun at my back! Does not always work out that way but as butch put it, a 10 bird day or a 50 bird day, just great to be out and at them!
Ted
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I sometimes have days when I get 0-2 birds, some days will get several hundred (those are good days) but just being out in the field, watching nature, makes it all worthwhile :)
Sometimes I'm alone (mostly) sometimes I have company. When I have company, I try to let the visiting shooter have the majority of shots if not a lots flying, as that's common courtesy
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I sometimes have days when I get 0-2 birds, some days will get several hundred (those are good days) but just being out in the field, watching nature, makes it all worthwhile :) Sometimes I'm alone (mostly) sometimes I have company. When I have company, I try to let the visiting shooter have the majority of shots if not a lots flying, as that's common courtesy
Yeah, as with you, Big Honkers was polite to me during our last hunt in March and let me shoot at the only two we saw (they were on my side of the blind, anyway) and I missed both. Great, eh? However, he did get a cool photo of me missing 50% of our within-range birds.
How did that go? I was contacted about doing a book once about crows but I refused to go along with it. Here is why; too much anti-hunting slant and i didn't want ot be apart of it...why anyone would write a book about crows is beyond me but they are more destructive than hawks or raccoons or what have we. Come to think of it every thing around here that walks on all fours is destructive to other types of animals notably rabbits... No one is going to make money off of my experiences anyways...keep that in mind even though yours is different circumstances..you cannot trust strangers in terms of money...what most people don't know on another note New York City is one big extortionist paradise....this si why they only want "THEIR" side to be allowed firearms...hard to imagine so many sheep...incredible given the American revolution and all that..incredible!
Even the law enforcement from A-Z is ion it..at virtually every level of government!
Today I went and had a potter round the farms again. First farm 3 rooks with one shot (they were almost out of range flying away).
Second farm a rook and a carrion, and the third farm two rooks, a jackdaw, and two feral pigeon.
Then a half hour later I went back to the third farm, and bagged four jackdaws with three shots
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