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Pattern density
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Mr. Camo, The choke I use to get 55% patterns at 30 yds depends on the shell that I am shooting. Which means that I match the choke to the shell, after pattern testing. No single choke will shoot all shells to the same pattern density. I have proven this many times. One of my favorite recipes to get a 55% patt...
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Favorite pattern density
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What is your favorite pattern density to crow hunt with? After extensive pattern testing over the past two years, I have concluded that mine is 55% at 30 yds. Fifty-five percent gives a dense-enough, and open-enough pattern to be what I feel is very effective. I try to shoot crows between 25 and 35 yard...
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Last Half of Crow Week '18
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With Jerry Tomlin's guidance, we had a fun and productive hunt last month. But since his death, I tried to salvage the second half of our annual crow hunting gathering by acting as the guide. Here is my report, such that it was. Keep in mind that this gathering is as much about social interactions as i...
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No records set today.
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Coming off our victory over the bandits yesterday we where full of confidence that today would be no different. So, we headed for the pecan farm we hunted a month ago, killed 35 that hunt. We had a south, southeast wind this morning, perfect for hunting this particular farm. There aren't very many t...
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Set a new TBC record this morning.
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The morning started off Cold, 22 degrees cold. That is really cold for a southeast Oklahoma hillbilly. Got the calling started with my hand call and got my first crow in, and killed with a hand call. The shoot could of ended right there and it would of been a success in my book. But, it didn’t they kept co...
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A Solo Milestone
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While at a local Bible study Thursday, a participant complained about crows eating the pecans at his property. I told him “We need to talk!” He had 6-8 trees along side of a field of corn stubble. We set it up for a hunt today, but the guy I was going with bailed out last night. Too late for a replacement, so...
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Island Shooter
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KROW 103 on the FM dial
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We had a really good day today in spite of several bumps in the road. The first was finding goose hunters in the field we planned to hunt. The next was a walk back to the truck for another gun for me after two shots when my Browning Double Auto jammed because a spent primer fell out of a shell and jammed the a...
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Gone With The Wind, so long Ft. Cobb crows
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Gone With The Wind? No, no, not the movie. Young farmers...gone with the wind. Yep, young farmers. As years go by, more and more farms in America are closing the barn door, for the last time. Why, because many young people today do not want a life of scratching out a living by digging in dirt. Many have gon...
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KenCrow
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Food sources needed for large numbers of crows.
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Been looking over google earth and looking for possible hunting areas. In my neck of the woods there isn't a ton of farming, but there is some along the rivers. There isn't more than a few square miles of farming in any one area. Is this a large enough food source to hold a decent amount of birds? Havin...
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Dale
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Georgia crow hunting
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Trips available 2019 season.1478 363 4385.call or text or post
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Rembering a Fellow Crowman
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A friend and fellow crow hunting buddy sent this photo to me this afternoon. Don’t remember the particulars of this hunt, but judging by the smiles, it must have been a good one. With Jerry, there were very few bad ones. He will be missed, but the memories will be many. Demi
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Island Shooter
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A different sort of crow...
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This is a rather different house crow. Wouldn't you agree?
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Having heck with hand calls.
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I have bought Bobs cd on handcalling crows and his hunting dvd. I still can not figure out how to use the dang mouth calls I have. I have bought two high end calls, one is a Mallard tone and the other one I can't remember the make. My problem is the reed continues to stick on me. This happens after just a fe...
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First one this year - Piebald
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This is the first one this year, shot it today, usually 10ga and I will pick up a couple of these each year.
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Migrating Nasty Boogers
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The nasty boogers are crossing the Delaware / Maryland line in "Big Balls" (as nhcrowshooter says)!! Only thing is, they are using Rt. 40 as their flyway!! Took the Hoodoo Lady to the Dollar Store yesterday and witnessed close to 300 in a period of 20 minutes. Didn't have my call. Rt. 40 here, runs in a N...
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coyote's & crows
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After seeing several pics of coyote's on the game cam i decided to set up an early morning ambush. Got out before daylight & tucked into a hide on some high ground. About 20 minutes after daylight a bunch of crows were raising a fuss a few hundred yards away. I couldn't see them but by the sound of thin...
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Crows are back
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I noticed the crows seemed to disappear about a month ago but in the last week it seems that the birds are back, do you think these are birds that are migrating down from up north, I’m in Indiana. If so will these birds stay through out the winter.
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So close
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10ga and I hunted most of the day today, sunrise to 3:30PM. We started in one spot and made the decision to move around 10:30AM and take an hours ride for a second setup. We ended the day with 96 down. We didn't bust the century mark today but we came close and had a good shoot. Below is a picture from our se...
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Scarecrow Services
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Helping out the local nut growers Good day 108 ready for the kettle . These bums will steal no more pecans!! Happy Hunting Crow Foe -- Edited by Crow Foe on Friday 19th of October 2018 01:21:22 AM
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We tried doing it "your" way :-)
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10ga and I got out today, the weather was sunny with a light SW west wind. We did not see any crows migrating today but there was a good number of migrant birds milling about our location. We hunted from first light until 1:30 PM and put 89 birds on the ground. We used a pair of vintage auto loaders, a Remi...
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Not Like Last Year...But
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After checking a pecan orchard that harvested nearly 250 crows in three hunts last year, I knew it would be slow. No irrigation, hot summer and no fertilizer equals very few nuts. But I’ll be leaving out of town for a few days and didn‘t want to wait. I put up the blind yesterday and talked a coworker into g...
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First Half of "Crow Week '18" In The Bag!
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Every Fall we organize a crow hunting trip with guide Jerry Tomlin in the Aiken, SC/Augusta, GA area. Our family shares a small place in Graniteville, SC which includes a small cabin that my grandfather built, which serves as our home base. Jerry arranges hunts each morning in some nearby pecan orc...
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Island Shooter
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Dick Mermons' book changed the way I shoot crows....
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That book changed my life regarding how I hunted crows....I couldn't do everything in that book but it was extremely important. Over the years I watched others making mistakes left and right. Building a permanent blind in example was out of the question...so I made use of natural "blinds" and then t...
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Fat Lady's Singing
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Shot 4 crows this afternoon... which unless some miracle location comes up...will be may last crows of the year. My fall hunt has be plagued by incessant rain, wind and snow...coupled with near freezing conditions. Pic are the last two I capped today. Ted
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Mini, or small, shotgun aiming systems
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Have any of you ever tried hunting with a shotgun with a mini size shotgun optical aiming system, or small telescope, mounted on it? Actually , I believe that these aiming aids are NOT telescopes, as the ones I've read about do not magnify the image. One popular brand is Aimpoint, and I believe that ther...
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Anticipation ! (Update)
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Of an upcoming hunting trip to me is almost like being a kid again. Getting things together, checking equipment y'all get the picture. As you can tell I'm heading out tomorrow for a 3 day hunt. Not expecting a lot but hoping for a barn burner (lol). I can only guarantee that if the crows show up, Good Lord w...
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More Fall Crows
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Won't be long until the crows push south so Im taking advantage of my last week or so. Dog and I chased a huge feeding flock around late yesterday afternoon. Would be nice if these birds travelled in smaller groups but as it always is here, they move about as one big black cloud. First stand was along a rive...
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Two good September Days
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10ga and I got this Saturday and Sunday morning, 9/29 and 9/30, we had one the best two day shoots for these parts we can ask for in September. We took down 64 birds between us. We were both using 1 1/8 ounce of #6 from a pair of 10 gauge double guns, a Lefever and an Ithaca. This morning we had an immature Ba...
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Raising the bar with the TCP
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Hello Gentlemen of the Crow, This reporter is fresh off of a new TCP solo record effort with 91 crows taken on Saturday near the Red River. Key equipment deployed: FOXPRO Snow Crow Pro eCaller - Without it, results would be significantly lower. Loud calling with FOXPRO's legendary clear sound a...
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The one-day season.
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Well, due to circumstances beyond my control, it took until today to get out with my crow-busting pal Larry the Master Machinist. My wife has been dealing most of the year with lower back miseries. So, due to these and other responsibilities, I was out of action for the AUG-SEP Michigan season. But, we...
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