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Bob A. any winter spring hunting for you?
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I see the crow season in KS runs from Nov through early March. Do you ever go after them in the winter/spring seasons? NH opens tomorrow and then shuts down on 3/31.
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Small Clip...
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Waterfowl season is in full swing here so I don't spend much time chasing crows but occasionally one of them makes the mistake of getting too close! https://youtu.be/oFVsTjH5E0s
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Assassin79
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A Good Friday a:m hunt
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For us that is. Hunted a new property today with mixed feelings of how we would do, plus I missed a turn and put us late in the blind. Started at 6:58 according to my amazing flip phone from an elite franchise ( now y'all might understand a bit more of how old school I am with technology). Great a:m cloudy, N w...
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Butch
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Afternoon hunts
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Is it just me or is the afternoon much harder to hunt then the morning? I have tried a couple of times to hit the afternoons but can't really seem to get anything to come in other maybe 2 or 3. What do you all look for in an evening hunt? Will you hubt the same places that are good in the morning? Or will they not g...
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jacobhwrd
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How do you get decoys up high?
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As the title says I am always looking for ways to improve my hunting. I now use two decoys as a sentry since I kept seeing a crow would land close to the one I hung up (I guess splitting the duties). I use 50 feet of 550 cord tied to an 8 ounce mushroom duck decoy anchor. It works really well but it took some getti...
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jacobhwrd
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Bluetooth Speakers
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Seeing more & more of those impressive portable/rechargeable self-contained speaker sets that have great sound, it got me thinking. Do any of you use that equipment for calling crows? Advantages? Disadvantages?
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Island Shooter
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Pumpkin patch
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It's that time of year And the pumpkins here are starting to be picked. Have any of you ever hunted over a pumpkin patch? I am assuming they should be good but have no clue.
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jacobhwrd
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what's your favorite decoy?
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so what's your favorite decoy and why? I am using all GHG ffd at the moment but I am in the search for something a little bit smaller so its easier to carry more deeper into new areas to try. I don't know if you all use them but they are large but the quality is unbeatable. What would you all recommend?
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jacobhwrd
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Another Day: Another Blueberry Field
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This being the final weekend of our MI season, I was enthused today over trying out a new location. The owner, a blueberry farmer with many properties, took me on the tour for turkey and crow a week ago. I’ll check the turkeys out later, as we have until 14 NOV for them; I already shot one turkey this fall se...
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Old Artilleryman
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SJ 4000 action camera
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Wow, finally. After taking ONE single day to get from Malaysia to the UK, my new SJ4000 action camera, promptly disappeared into the UK postal system (despite being tracked air mail ). No sign of it. It arrived here on the 5th September, and then NOTHING. Finally today, it has arrived, on the 22nd Sep...
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Fall shooting
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Crows are gathering here in ever increasing numbers. Not shooting any big numbers yet but enough to make things interesting. Shot 25 this evening next to the old piece of fare machinery as in the attached photo .. My pup kept me company and did his best to gather up a few dead crows. Ted -- Edited by M12...
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M12Shooter
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Bob A sound pack for foxpro
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I was wondering if this sound pack was of Bob doing the calling himself. I was just over at the foxpro site looking at some calls to add to my crossfire and noticed this package. If anyone knows please let me know. Or if Bob reads this himself i guess he would know better then anyone.
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jacobhwrd
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Dove decoy turned into crow decoy
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The search has continues for a good motion crow decoy. I was town between the mojo and buster decoys. Mojo has really good quality and battery life but it's a spinner and buster is great but I keep hearing it will eat batteries like there is no tomorrow (3 hours max on a fresh set). Yesterday I was going thr...
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jacobhwrd
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Gave them a little pounding
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Fall shooting continues. Buddy and I found a sizeable group feeding on sunflower and other crops. I estimate 5000 crows. Got permission and shot a sunflower field late afternoon. Later intercepted roost bound birds and had a good shoot. Sun was setting, ammo low and wind dropped to nothing. Decided...
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M12Shooter
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Well I did it!!!
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I bought 2 cases of 9'S!!! My first 3 or 4 hundred birds every year are young and dumb. I'm gonna see how them babies pattern thru a Jellyhead and my open water. I may not push breast feathers thru any backs but I bet I do some poofin!!!
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September Huntin
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Either feast or almost famine, scouted a new spot yesterday and was excited to see a couple hundred birds working the area while I was there. Set up this am and they left, scratched out 22 hard earned birds. I'm determine to figure out how to stay on good shooting this time of year. Friday was a bit cooler a...
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Butch
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Nice surprise this morning over our spread
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rerhardt
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All black and white for this new Crowbuster
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Must introduce the latest addition to our family, albeit reluctant on my part...Finlay an English Cream Golden Retriever. He has just turned 3 months of age thus I thought I'd sacrifice my Saturday afternoon to introduce him to crow shooting. He had no real clue what the score was but learned very qui...
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M12Shooter
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Couldn't Make It To My Truck
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While leaving for work this morning I heard crows in the nearby pecan trees. I've been seeing the first of some fish crows migrating into the area lately, and these were some of those new birds. The fix was simple...pick up my Beretta, shells and earplugs. Walk to the truck where my FoxPro was and turn...
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Island Shooter
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First successful day of the season
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Was going hunting with my brothers Sunday morning and decided to go for crow instead. Turned out to be the right choice since I got 12 and my older brother brought my nephew who is 3 over to watch. Should have been at least 20 but my shooting was off at the start. Best part was is asked my nephew what he though...
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jacobhwrd
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Turkey Lust revisited--Opening Day--again.
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What a difference a nice day makes. Fall turkey opening day yesterday (15 SEP) in MI was a beautiful, perfect day (photo 1). Sunny, 60 deg. at sunrise, situated on a “known” turkey highway. What could go wrong--except no turkeys? I saw deer (too far to photo), crows were making their usual racket (even...
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Old Artilleryman
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Lonesome Possum Ranch
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This here is a story told by my neighbor Gerry Sowers. He's a good ole boy and a kick in the pants to hunt with. Gerry just underwent surgery the week before Christmas to try and do something about his Parkinson's Disease. Please say a prayer for him; they will b...
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jonthepain
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Couple morning hunts
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Got to go a couple mornings with my son, first day we had a good friend with us and things were tough. Rain heavy before first light and off and on till after 7am, thought they would turn on when it quit but crows acted real strange and would take to much to explain. Still picked up 29 and lost a few more in brus...
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Butch
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Arvesta Island picnic
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Set up this morning at a friend’s development of home sites which includes a nice man-made lake (Google Earth shot). Been here every crow season at one point or another. It’s an easy set up (yellow star), as a blind isn’t needed due to the nice clump of pines and bushes that provide pretty good cover (sha...
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Old Artilleryman
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Two 800 plus days!
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Here is one shoot from December 15th 1982 where Boyd Robeson and I rolled 859 crows in one spot all day long! Boyd - 467 Bob - 392 We just used 20 gauge guns with skeet loads in # 9 shot. I used 591 20 gauge hulls = 66% average. 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The second 800 plus bird shoot was in November of 2010 and I was s...
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Bob
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Eating Crow
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Having noticed earlier in an article I assume was written by Bob in 1999 it was recommended not to eat the meat from crows due to the West Nile Virus. At that time the CDC had made no comment on the transmission of the disease through consuming infected animals. Having eaten crow in the past I was disappoi...
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Wish me good hunting
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So, its 21:35 GMT here Right, last mug of tea for the night, then off to bed for some Zzzz's as the alarm goes at 02:00 again. Then it's up, do the dogs (feed and walk), then the cats (feed), then feed and drink for myself, plus make a thermos of coffee for on the field. Then at 05:00 start setting up on the...
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Do what the doctor says.
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I’ve been out of action for the past month, missing the August-September season until this morning. On Tuesday, my spine doc shot my lumbar region up with some steroids, after which he instructed me to test out what he had done by going back to “normal activities." I took that as a Rx to go crow hunt...
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Old Artilleryman
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Continuing Crow Therapy
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Well, got one a couple of days ago and got rained on. Much nicer today, so I went a bit farther out and set up again, in an effort to follow the doctor’s orders to mess up my back to see how well his steroid shots worked. Hey, going to get another shot next Wed. anyway…he instructed me to “resume normal acti...
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Old Artilleryman
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An irate townie meets a country bumpkin shooter LOL
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So, that was an interesting morning. Was having a nice shoot with a lad I invited from pigeon watch, and we're just discussing packing up, when two "irate" men in overalls come up and say our pellets are hitting the house, the cars, and showering them. Now, I KNOW theIf house is more than 30...
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