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How much do you practice your wingshooting?
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I am just curious how often, how much and what kind of target shooting everyone does during the off season. For me it is 3000+ clay pigeons annually on a mix of sporting clays, modern skeet, skeet and trap.
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What A Smile
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I had the chance this past weekend to take my buddies son on his first bird hunt. Opening day was Saturday and Logan was dieing to go. He just turned 13, so by mom's rules he was allow to carry a shotgun. Belgian Browning A-5 to be exact. He has been well schooled with firearms, wounder by who ? So I knew there...
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Action Yesterday
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Youngster and I hit the field again yesterday afternoon. Cloudy and windy, perfect conditions to ambush those big flocks of crows feeding on waist grain. Crows tolled perfectly into the brisk wind, like on a string allowing me shoot many doubles. Employed my old Browning Double Auto with light mo...
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Great dove shoot today
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My 15 year old and I were invited on a dove shoot. I had to drive quite a ways but boy was it worth it. 176 doves on the tailgate at days end The best part was that 4 youngsters were on the shoot and the action was fast. Fresh cut corn field and doves by the hundreds!!! The best part was my sons shooting. He shot ...
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Rio and PMC ammo?
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Has any body used either of these for crows, and if so, was it any good? Shayne
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Chokes density and all things patteren related
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http://www.gunnersden.com/index.htm.shotgun-patterns.html
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Season opens Saturday
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Here in Arkensaw any way it's Saturday for crows and doves. I'm seeing very few doves so far so I'm taking my crow dekes and MA21 with me. If the doves are slow, I'll try taking out a few bandits instead. Shayne
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Spread Questions
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How big is your spread ? How many deks do you put out ? How many do you hand in the trees ? How many different decoys do you use ? Do you have a pattern that you use or do you just throw them out ? Do you use other animals in your spread ? What is the method to your madness ? Here is why I am asking. Here lately th...
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500 bird shoot
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Since it's 105 friggin degrees outside I thought it would be a good idea to review some of my old journals from past years. I see one shoot where in 2004 I shot 500 crows even that day. My notes said that I rolled the first 200 within one hour and 12 minutes. This was with a 20 gauge using a 7/8th ounce load of # 8...
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What choke do YOU use?
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I've seen this all over the board. Some guys use improved cylinder and some guys use full. What do you use and why do you like it? Run and gun or flyway hunting? -- Edited by LeviSS on Monday 30th of August 2010 02:09:53 AM
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Crow tree
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Hey Boys! Here is my invention!! My "CROW TREE" I made it out of 2" p.v.c 2 10' lengths screwd together wih p.v.c. branches, my owl is some 35 years old I bought it from Gander mountain, there is a string that comes out of the owl's chest that makes his wings flap and on the...
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Ketch UP ON SNOW??
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GUYS, I have a friend of mine who dosen't hunt crows much but is AN ACCOMPLISED TARGET SHOOTER, every time I see him he asks me "HOWS THE HUNTING?" Every time he asks that ? he ends up asking me if I have tried a trick for hunting bandits in the winter that he swears will work! ...
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Master and I!
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Took my youngster out for a bit of Run and Gunning on crows. Birds are all flocked up now in preparation for migration. Shot some nice doubles and one tripple but sadly reponding crows came in large groups. Made for a good time for Junior but sadly educated a whole lot of crows for the number we had shot. Te...
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It's Fox Pro for Chip???
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I have worked the OT and have the cash,,, I want the CS-24 with the 30 watt krakatoa For those of you that have done business with the boys at Fox pro, how do I go about it??? Do I have to tell them what calls to download and how many??? Should I go to the site and pick out what calls I want first???
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closeup action
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Here are two good up close action photos that I think you guys will like. If the guy with the camera (thats me) gets the right kind of angle you feel just like you are there! Bob A.
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What's your camo clothing pattern of choice?
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I wear Mossy Oak Brush. I hunt around a lot of CRP grass and thin fence rows, so this pattern works great. What do you guys wear?
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Buckner call to benefit cancer society - it's a beaut!
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http://cgi.ebay.com/BUCKNER-CUSTOM-CALLS-ACS-CROW-CALL-TURKEY-CALL-CALLS-/300456874166?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0
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Camo?
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Here are some examples of differen't types of camo in the field. Bob A.
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Crow Camp !
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Three fellas who go together every year to crow hunting camp were all gathered one day to talk about plans for camp. They each brought their wives with them. One guy’s wife informed him in front of his hunting buddies he would NOT be going to crow camp this year. His two friends were shocked and felt bad...
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What call models does Gibson offer?
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I just got a Long Range and really like it. I've seen the Long Range, Short Mag, and Fat Boy. Does he make any others.
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Any crowbusters in Northern Indiana
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Since last Feb 1st I have moved from my wife and home in Ga to take care of my dad who just turned 103. My mom passed last Dec at 102. Dad shows no sign of slowing down. I thought I would be here a month or two WRONG. I have managed to do some trap shooting but was wondering if ther are any members living in the Gary...
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Mag tube and spring
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I didn't want to hijack JD's thread about his morning hunt, but Bob mentioned something that I have been curious about lately..... He mentioned that after a soaking in the rain, one should get at the mag tube and spring and clean and dry them out. I can do this to my mag tube on my SX3. I have heard that it can...
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Crowboy1556 Is Back
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hey all im back nice new forum well havent been on in forever but decided to get out the gun the other day and go out crow shooting so i figured why not get on and talk to the guys so all yall out there got any updates since the last time we talked
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Hunting in the rain
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Sunday started out damp and by daylight got worse but ended up with 23. All done and packed up and back to the truck by 8:00.
Recovered 30 sum hulls I know I missed a few. All in all I would hunt in the rain again just next time I won't believe the radar and go with my gut on the rain gear. I left at 8 cause I was soa...
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hey hey been awhile
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Missed this forum. Did a search today and found it. :) :)
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PA Hunters - Letter to your Local & State Reps
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I think I have what I want to say. if anyone has anything to add, please post. As a groups of PA hunters, we can print the PDF (as soon as I can find out how to make an attachment) and send via mail or copy and paste into an email, where available. From what I have read, emails get the same attention as paper. If a...
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Abbey's first Crow Hunt
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Hello Gentleman, I've been out of the game for awhile but I got to take my 13 year old daughter on her first crow hunt last Saturday. She did very well getting 4 outright and combining with me to bring down a couple of others. Not a lot of targets but we had a lot of fun. For you guys that like the detail...
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FIRST GOOD SHOOT FOR ME 2010
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Hi All I went to one of my hot spots yesterday,its all sweet corn fields,they had some still standing,but most was harrowed under and when I drove in the place,it was stupid with bandits having a picnic. I dropped my stuff and set a little blind in the corn,I drove over to the side of the river and parked th...
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Busted
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Got out this morning to test out the new calls I got. Wish I would have connected on every shot but it was really breezy this morning and they where really moving when the come in. So my hit % is way down. O well. I recovered 80 hulls and downed 27 crows pics will follow. Total time 3 1/2 hours from one spot and I...
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I may have found it
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I may have found the right combination and finally a use for those junk foam deeks I have laying in the basement Shane I took the rods you sent me and used a grinder to take off the peg welded on the end of one of them. I then heated one of the real wing decoy madnets and pulled it off the stake they had it glued...
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