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Bob Aronsohlm shot over 500 in one day...many years ago when things were better otherwise he shoots between 150-300 something on his good days?

Lefty2Barrels wrote:

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450 crows? Does he understand what 450 shells fired feel like? IF its possible I believe that would be one sore cheek and shoulder with a Chiropractor appt. in works.

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also seems funny...there is no photo proof....if i shot 450 crows i know id have a heck of a pile shot...

turns out the guy knows BOB A or at least claims to.....so i guess the answer is yes

George Digweed, not Digby. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cn6MEymVXk

When you you are using the proper gun and loads, high volume shooting is not a problem. Practicing for sporting clays, I've shot 825 targets in a day. In Argentina I stopped at 875 doves only because I got bored (my son shot 1,240 on the same day).

Shooting an ill-fitting gun and/or 1 1/4 oz. loads, I would struggle to shoot 50 shells!

Demi

Bayman,

To answer your question, yes it is possible.

BH

BAYMAN718 wrote:

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have a guy on facebook claiming his buddy shot 450 crows by himself between sunrise and sunset... 250 i could buy....but 450....sounds like bs to me...what do you guys think

 

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Why would a feat as this not be possible? If one had the ammo and all the planets lined up surely shooting 4 or 500 crows could be accomplished. Up here in my theatre of operation, during fall gatherings, it is nothing to see 5000 crows feeding in one area. Problem lies here with these fall congregations travelling en masse... Good shooting can had but soon the whole gang is on to the gig and move on. I have been plagued by this dilemma all of my crow shooting career

 

Ted 

Bayman,

Here is a photo taken in 2000 where I shot 506 crows with a 20 gauge Remington 870 Wing Master using a 7/8th ounce load of number 8's. I went back the next day to pick up the crows and set up this photo with my 35mm Olympus on a tri pod. There are 386 in the photo, the coyotes ate over a hundred of them just over night.

Bayman, I just looked it up on google, look for the series # 12 film clip that has some really good stuff to watch. That is the one in the soybean field.

This photo was taken in the mid 1990's and the very first shoot in this guys pecan orchard (in 1991) I shot 526 crows from 7:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. in the afternoon. I did not start to carry a camera with me on a regular basis until the mid 1990's. I used a 20 gauge 870 Wing Master with a 7/8th ounce load of # 8 shot in 1991 and the photo you see I was using a 12 gauge Remington Wing Master with a trap load of 7 1/2's.

The orchard owner was so pleased he insisted I go get my gear out of the motel and stay with him at his house to save me expenses. He had great New Years Eve party's at his place, all the farmers, ranchers and pecan orchard men were there. I made some wonderful contacts at those get togethers over the years.

Hello OA

I had Reinhart Fajen in Missouri restock both my 20 gauge and 12 gauge 870's. The one in the photo has French Walnut and the 20 gauge has English Walnut wood. Here is a photo of the 20 gauge with English Walnut.

Scott,

I normally shoot a full choke in 20 gauge. About 35 years ago I shot a pair of model 12 20 gauges one was full choke, the other was a modified choke. Both had Simmons vent ribs and I had many good memories with those guns. I still have my 20 gauge model 12 pigeon grade bored WS-1 that I also shot some crows with but not many. I mainly used it as a clay bird gun and a quail gun.

So are you seeing many migrant crows yet? The only problem with the spring migration is that many of those birds know the score from being shot at for almost six months already. There are others in that migration that probably have never heard an e-caller yet!

I checked out a new area a few days ago that was 200 miles from home. It was a total dud, but on most of these exploratory missions you have to aim low to avoid disappointment! Once in a great while you find a really good area where nobody else hunts them except you, that is what keeps a guy going.

I hope you and Pete do well during you're spring migration.

My old pal Boyd was a gunsmith and one day he says" Bob take this 20 gauge Browning Lightning out and test fire it on crows for me" it was also bored F/F and was that ever a crow buster!

boba wrote:

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Bayman,

It is fun for me keeping records of the amount of crows shot each season. Here are the results of the last ten seasons of just my share of them.


2007 - 4,008

2008 - 5,279

2009 - 4,164

2010 - 4,762

2011 - 4,797

2012 - 3,087

2013 - 3,874

2014 - 3,605

2015 - 3,333

2016 - 3,663

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It would take me 5 to 6 years to shoot 3600 here in NH, if I was retired it would take 5,

scott 

boba wrote:

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Hi Scott,

You can be the best crow hunter in the world but if you are not in a crow rich area then you are only going to do as well as that area will permit. I am always on the look out for new untapped area. I just got back two days ago from an area 200 miles from home that turned out to be a dud. If there are not enough birds to make it worth your while then it is best to cut your losses and don't even try to break in an area like that.

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More wisdom from BobA.

Just whining, but that's how life (and crow deaths) are around here. Otherwise, life is good.

Exactly! I killed 15 the other morning and thought I was doing fairly well until I saw some of the numbers being posted here! Some of y'all have really got the crows!      I don't believe that I could kill 450 crows by myself if I had permission to hunt my whole county. And it surly wouldn't happen in one day! 

Demi,

The first action photo was taken in Argentina, if you look closely you can see where the bird got smoked just to the right of my Alpine Hat. Faster than you can blink your eyes look at how far that dead dove had traveled on his way earthward. The second photo was also in Argentina.

Photo # 3 is of White Winged Doves in Mexico.

Photo # 4 is of Eared Doves in Colombia South America.

Motel we were both using semi autos, I doubt we would have done it with sbs or ou guns, and even with the Beretta 3 recoil dampening systems, we couldn't shoot again for days we were that sore

Whats make/model shotguns do you use Boba?

BOB, IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE to bring in your own firearms but would need licences in every part of the UK you were travelling through, also if say you flew into Dublin, then drI've in a hire car a Ross the border, you would need a licence from both north and south Ireland. Fly into London then onto Belfast requires a licence in England, and one in Ireland. More than 3 shots in a semi auto or pump are not allowed for shotguns. No semi auto rifles are allowed, bolt action or lever action only. In England no pistols or revolvers at all, not even 22lr

Bob, yes, that should be possible, juSt apply for a temporary firearms cert for 12 gauge or 20 gauge or both, and then you can theoretically use one under the owners supervision

Here are some more from this same shoot.

Glad you enjoyed them Lefty.

It is very satisfying for me to capture the moment and be able to pass it along to others who have the same burning passion.

danhuzz wrote:

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maybe the guy used a silencer :))

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 How about a metro barrel?

Hello Red,

Both methods have there advantages and disadvantages.

In the UK, Ireland and Scotland you can not use electronic crow calls whereas in the USA you can. Now if a fella is good with a hand call and that is allowed by law in Europe then this would be a big plus even if electronic callers were illegal. The UK, Ireland and Scotland have much more red tape to go through in order to even hunt in those country's. Such as leasing certain fields and that is the only area you are allowed to hunt in. Plus other laws (from what I hear) where you have to have your firearm in your possession at all times even if you go outside your hide to take a damn leak! All the gun permits you need and paperwork you must have either on your person or in the lorry in the glove box. But in a way this is an advantage because only the most diehard shooters would go through all that red tape and trouble which means you have much less competition than us Yanks across the pond. There is also a vast difference in the size of the farms in the USA compared to Europe in general. Where you gents hunt the birds are more concentrated because there are only certain areas they can feed in. In the USA you have some farmers that have many thousands of acres cultivated and the birds can feed anywhere. If you shoot at them in one field they just move over to the next mile and you are done here in the states if you just had to rely on decoys alone.

We have much more freedom in the USA. I hunt in some states where I have whole counties in which to hunt in and all you have to do is just ask permission.

Many years ago I used to hunt like you do now very late in the season when the birds were all call shy and would not respond to a crow call of any kind. You got to shoot some very leery birds that way but the shooting was very slow by comparison to calling them in.