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Prognosis: Long hot summer to include september
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A lot of folks will be unhappy reading this-me included. I will be getting emails and the forum will be full of complaints and discussion about all the causes...a lack of crows. There will be talk of the government created "wet Nile Virus" again...well the deal is I believe is so long as a crow has this c...
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Here is the easy way to scout for crows!
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Reminds me of a "Mad Max movie"
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South Dakota Crows...
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Spent 5 days two weeks ago in South Dakota and did not see a single crow! That gets my "crow" part of this post out of the way as we were after prairie dogs and there was one event that I think is worthy of reporting to the crow crowd! We hunt several private ranches and all are owned by just super folks that wel...
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A little dissappointed in my shot pattern.
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The area where I hunt is mostly woods with some small fields. So when crows come in they are usually at treetop level, pretty high. So I went and patterned my shotgun today with winchester super speed 6 and remington game load 7 1/2. I've had a turkey choke on my 870 for years so l left that on, I want as muc...
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New guy, Hi! And I'd like a suggestion on a hand call.
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After watching Gordon Ramseys show on shooting and eating crows, I decided to try it. I love shooting, but this is also specifically for meat. From my house i can hear them most mornings and evenings and throughout the day. Not a lot of crows, just a few, but consistent. I've read the beginner technique...
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A 60 yard shot
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A pattern of 1 1/4 ounce lead 6 from Ithaca Super Ten (2 7/8" 10 ga double barrel). 60 yard range via laser range finder. Looks like it would have been a dead bird.[URL=http://s269.photobucket.com/user/nhshotgunner/media/160829950000_zps2c9qyhvd.jpg.html][IMG]https://i269.photobuck...
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What Camo Do You Use & How Effective??
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What is your favorite? [video=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PSYe5MsYW5o]
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Island Shooter
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IM ON THE BOARD!!!
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today was opening day here i NY.......i hunted geese the morning before with my buddy and we wound up with 4 geese....afterwards i went scouting for crows and it began to become clear that there were very few birds in my general area and all seemed to be locals.... i formulated a plan and decided to hunt t...
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Stats from last season
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We were on 31 crow hunts for an average of 170 crows per hunt last season. At the end of last season I was on 1,570 crow hunts in 42 seasons. In 42 seasons I shot my 158,086 th crow. In 42 seasons there have been 240,330 crows shot in my company. Now with just Dicks and my life time totals the number comes to over...
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boba
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A days corvid and pigeon shooting in Northern Ireland
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So, final report on today as corvid pigeon/shooting I got up at 03:00, walked the dogs then put them back in the kennels with fresh water, and a cooky each plus half a sausage each. I had a boring morning, was set up by 06:00, and had three down within 20 minutes, but then it went quiet for a bit, and then t...
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Late Summer Crows
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Crows are now gathering in the hundreds. The master and I went on a search and destroy mission this afternoon. He has been wanting to kill a few bandits with his new 20. I let Junior do most of the shooting and many splendid presentations were last due to impatience and inexperience. However, the boy di...
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"Other Hunting" question - Groundhogs
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I've wanted to branch out into (ground) varmint hunting for a couple of years, focusing on groundhogs during the off months here in MI (APR-JUL; possibly during winter) and the occasional yote.' I now have the opportunity (& $$) to pick up a Ruger #1 (circa. 1976 - you know how I like old/older guns...
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20 more days!!!
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till i get to get after the black menace.....been dusting off the decoys and firing up the e-caller annoying my neighbors and the local urban crows...cant wait till September 2nd... been killing time fishing this spring and summer...been a pretty good year...but honestly fishing is something to d...
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Relatively New Video
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In my impatience while waiting for the new season, I found this video of some crow and pigeon shooting. Thought y'all might like to see it: This guy can shoot! However, in spite of what his hat says, I don't think he got that pump gun from Ho...
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Poor Man's Hat Cam
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If you don't have a GoPro or the like and you have a small digital camera hanging around you can quickly make an inexpensive hat cam and use to take video of your shoots. I have little doubt it works. American Redneck Engineering and worth a try. [video=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzAjHRbll...
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Ammo
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Picked up some Federal 12ga. 7 1/2 1 1/8 for 4.94 a box for the coming year. Guys it felt good to start the process of gettin stuff ready for the up-coming season of bustin crows. Hope you Gentlemen have some "Great hunts " this year. Butch
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It's gettin close!
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Couple landowners have called and I've started making contact with the others and from reports this could be a good season hopefully. Got to brag a little on the Gentlemen who allow us to hunt, These Men are exceptional and some of the best folks I have met in my life. That makes the hunting that much mor...
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Memorable hunts from over a lifetime.
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Here are different types of hunts from over the years. I was 10 1/2 years old when I shot that brown bear on Kodiak Island in 1958.
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Favorite action photos from over the years.
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Good action photos require both plenty of targets and some luck to get a good photo.
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Some of my favorite photos.
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These photos are some of the best that I have taken over the years, it's to bad more of us do not take photos.
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anyone try using a blind like this??
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https://www.amazon.com/Ameristep-Wing-Shooter-Chair-Blind/dp/B002B47DOY
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Remington 1100 Rem Choke pattern test
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Today I shot a couple of patterns through my Rem 1100 with a 26" Rem Choke barrel. I used the same load that I shot through my Ithaca 51 last week, 7/8 ounce of magnum #6, 218 pellet hand count. The Imp Cyl choke tube produced a pattern of 113 out 218 pellets at 40 yards for 51.8% with the pattern being a littl...
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New pop up BALE HIDE bought
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I just bought a new pop up hide. Surprisingly ots russian made (probably made in China, but all advertisements and packing were in Russian) havent tried it yet, but if it performs as well as I think it will, it's going to be ideal amongst the barley, wheat, and oat straw bales :)
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The stealth fly, maggots on your shot birds very quickly
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Have you ever wondered why some birds suddenly are full of maggots on a hot day, and yet you pick them directly upon them hitting the ground, and covered them up, although not many flies were about ? Well, I found the answer the other day (see, even at my age I learn something new every day). Every livin...
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Set up help
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Not new to crow hunting but getting back into it with my grandson. Hunted last Saturday 6:00 AM. Used owl & 5 crow decoys, had 2 come in high & they flew off. Using foxpro ecaller crow & owl fight. Had owl in pine tree & crow decoys out front spread out in trees, overcast morning. I was usin...
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Today's crow shooting on a new permission (first shoot to test the water)
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So, today was at a new permission. The place is a farm that does large amounts of chicken, beef cattle,Mary cattle, sheep, and cereal crops, and has been inundated with corvids and pigeons (and rats) that they wanted "moved" so checked the permission on Google Earth, and decided the only safe lanes o...
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Skip Earns His Second Master Class Status!
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We have a forum member who just earned his way into sporting clays NSCA Master Class, which is quite an accomplishment. Skip Woody from Chapel Hill, NC. Skip punched into Master at Deep River Sporting Clays this past weekend by breaking 96 out of 100 targets which took High Overall at the tourname...
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A topic NH & 10 gauge would like!
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Here are some very old photos from 1960 when I was just getting started on the web feet! You two will recognize in a heartbeat that I am holding a model 21 Winchester in my arms.
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Waterfowl photos from Mexico and Argentina.
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This is for the guys who like hunting waterfowl.
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A good day today
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Today started with change of plans on where to hunt. Distant thunderstorms were lighting up the sky in two directions but no thunder could be heard as we walked out to the field. Armed with our usual 120 year old 10ga doubles we put out a dozen or so decoys and turned on two callers. Action was steady...
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