last several years,I've hunted a couple times a year using my bassboat and hunting up and down the flint and Chattahoochee rivers....kind of a lazy way to shoot crows....I just stop every couple miles,shove nose of boat up against preferably a tall bank,turn the crow calling machine on and whack them when (and if) they come to investigate...typical day, me and a buddy can kill 15-20 crows in a little over half a day and I'd estimate crows will come in range about 1/3 of the stops we make...
am thinking about hunting some farms near here and I've heard that crows send a scout bird first that you should not shoot....is this true?...and do you turn off your machine and just let the scout bird go back?
Not true, shoot everyone you can. Most actually say that you have to kill the first one or none will come in which is also not true.
But I have found that on a run n gun set where you arnt hunting food or a flyway and are just moving around picking up murders as you go, imo getting BUSTED (not just the first one not commiting to the set) by the first one that comes in is almost a guarantee that you might as well move, atleast for me.
-- Edited by JTNorthArk on Monday 13th of February 2017 11:43:27 PM
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The river hunting method is a favorite of a friend and fellow sporting clays shooter who is from Tennessee. Wendell Cherry stays busy with shooting and coaching. When he gets a break, he floats rivers to shoot crows just like you are doing. I've never tried it, but it sounds like fun. I'm guessing Wendell's shot-to-kill average is better than either of ours!
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