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Ornithologists discover reason for massive crow kill-off
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Boston, MA, Associated Press: Researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu. A bird pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone's relief, confirmed...
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Old Artilleryman
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Evolution of the E-Caller
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Bob A. why don't you give us a history lesson on e-callers. A while back you mentioned Bert Popowski shot all his crows before e-callers had come out. You also mentioned every hunter feels they were born too late. I think the best crow hunting came with the use of e-callers. The first e-callers were...
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nhcrowshooter
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JS mp3 sounds?
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Anybody have any JS sounds they could share with me? I have been watching for the cd on ebay and other places but have not seen one anywhere. If anybody has any of the JS sounds they would like to share with me, I'd also be willing to buy them if that's what it takes. I emailed Hunters Specialty and they said t...
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jrry261
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Sunday am hunt at the " meth lab "
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did not make it out to hunt saturday but got out this morning....my partner bailed on me and as he had permission to hunt a new spot...i had to go to back up spot called the " meth lab " ... with the warm up and southern winds lately...a majority of the crows in the area have headed north...but th...
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BAYMAN718
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Spring is here in MI.
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Just an average shoot here, except there should have been more TBC. But, for me, that’s also “average.” Another berry field; another new property (Yes!). The birds aren’t totally educated, but it doesn’t take long for the murder to understand what was going on. I wish I had had a partner with me toda...
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Old Artilleryman
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over slept the alarm this am...
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date night with the girlfriend ran later then i wanted it to...and i overslept my 4am wake up alarm...waking up at 7am...almost blew it off and went back to bed but knowing this would be my 2nd to last chance to hunt crows this season...i made my hour and half trek to my hunting area....tried a new spot......
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BAYMAN718
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Different hunting photos
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The first black & white photo was taken when I was 15 years old back in Long Island New York. The old baymen with me used to tell me stories about the duck hunting during the 1930's when he used to market hunt the ducks!
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boba
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Alcan 220 Max-Fire Primers
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In addition to the comments I made in my post on the subject of "Evolution of the e-caller" as posted by nhcrowshooter, I have a pic of a box of Alcan 220 Max-Fire primers to show. Bob A. suggested that the Alcan Company also made shotgun shell primers, in addition to powder, shotgun shells, w...
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Stupid but lucky.
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M-12 Shooter’s signature statement (attributed to John Wayne) is, “Life’s tough. It’s tougher when you’re stupid.” More on this in a moment.Another fine cloudy morning in SW MI. 32 deg., with a bit of snow during the drive out to a new property belonging to the same person, when just two weeks ago, we h...
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Old Artilleryman
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What a difference a week makes!
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Last Friday, 8 days ago: 11 degrees and lots of snow (See the “5.11” hunt report). Today 53 and no snow with a 70 deg. day in-between. Spring is here! Anyhow, another blueberry field, one of six new blueberry properties on which I only this week received permission to hunt. Wow! Most are at least a couple...
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Old Artilleryman
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SXS
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[URL=http://s167.photobucket.com/user/david50cal/media/007%205_zpsl2odcxva.jpg.html][IMG]https://i167.photobucket.com/al...
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I took some beginners out for their first crows.....
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Well it was actually my three brothers in law so the pressure was really on to impress!! None of them had ever shot before so i got two of my hunting buddies to come round and we paired up for the morning, one beginner with each "expert" We took them through gun safety and safety in the hide. The...
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GraemeR
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First Crow
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Very mild here for mid March and much of the snow has changed form. Took the dog out for a hike, tossed a shotgun and hand call in the truck as well. Called in a pair and only one departed. Crows not really in hunt able numbers yet. That will be a week or two yet. Dog made a perfect retrieve...but forgot the bir...
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M12Shooter
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Admin or Moderator action needed
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Hey whoever has the keys to manage the site, how about taking a look in the Buy, Sell and Trade section. It's out of control with over 50 bogus postings.
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nhcrowshooter
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E-caller questions... Considering ICOtec
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I'm looking to purchase an electronic caller and am currently leaning towards the ICOtec GC500. I've seen them on sale recently for $140 which seems like a deal that is hard to pass up. My only question is, what and where are the best crow sounds to get to use for this call. ICOtec has a sound library, b...
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Poetry in "Crow Motion."
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No photos unfortunately. But the past two hunts and during previous seasons, I've always been impressed by the first shot of the morning which usually takes place around here, about 15 minutes before stated sunrise--as the crows usually begin sounding off about five minutes before that (BTW, is th...
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Old Artilleryman
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steel shot for crows....
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i got a pretty good location on long island picked out for Saturday...its an island on a salt marsh that the crows have been using as a stop over as they leave the roost on the mainland to head out to harass the seagulls and people walking on the board walk on the barrier beaches....only problem is being it...
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BAYMAN718
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are crows getting smarter???
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we all know were hunting one of the smartest birds around...but something ive noticed in our area anyway...is the crows are now seeming to stay in the safe zones more and more...we have a roost of around 10 to 15,000 crows in the town of middletown which is roughly 10 miles from our hunting area...middl...
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The exhausted crow hunters...
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The roar of hundreds of thousands of crow wings surge overhead in the plains some wheres whose voices are hardly drowned out by approaching oxygen laden special crow hunter revival ambulances come to revive the double barreled fans with their blue worn off cracked stock old antiquated 1920s' sho...
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Top Cat
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Nice crow hunting video
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10gacrowshooter shared this with me. It's a nice video of a sport we all enjoy. Professionally done and they were having a great time. The old crow hunter was least 80 when this was made, when I Googled his name it looks like he passed away last September at age 83. Seems like he would have been a great...
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nhcrowshooter
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hand call hunt...
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got out today for my first try at hand calling crows...first thing i noticed was pulling crows from a distance proved tough....HOWEVER those who flew close were able to be talked into giving up the ghost...sadly my hunting partner did not bring his A game and several crows lived to see another day...b...
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BAYMAN718
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Eatin Crows
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Just watched Glenn Guist on Swamp People cook a road kill crow in Jumbalyia, Cajuns are some of the greatest cooks and ain't scared to cook almost anything and eat it. They are survivors but this old redneck will take a pass on the crow. Butch
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"5.11 Day"
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No excuses. Went out on 1 FEB opening day and got skunked. Saw two but they were wearing O2 masks. Have been unable to get out till this morning. Yesterday afternoon, a hunter friend from church whose home is on 40 acres nearby let me cut white pine boughs for my blind so I could make one just like my SW MI Cro...
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Biohazard Piebald
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BioHazard Alert Caution: This post may be harmful to your health. If you hunt crows, odds are that you have seen or shot a bird with crap on its back. They roost together in trees. I guess it is the price they pay for safety. These birds, however, are particularly "crappy." Enjoy my crapp...
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Favorite Hunt Of The Year Thus Far
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Greetings fellas, The MI crow season is on. I figured I'd share a recent hunt. It was one I barely got out of bed for, thankfully, I stopped hitting the snooze button. I had scouted this area for some time. I never really saw a massive amount of crows in the area, but every time I scouted it before 2pm th...
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HAND CALLING advice...
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my crow box with my fox pro in it was stolen this fall out of the back of my pickup bed while i went to pay for gas.... i am in the process of getting a other one but i have two old crow calls that belonged to my friends dad....and was wondering about trying to do it " old school " style with just mouth c...
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i am backkkkk
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been a few years since i logged in here... i kind of fell out of the crow hunting loop being my two crow hunting buddies gave it up...but i decided to get back into this this year and dusted off the old J-Stewart and went on a handful of crow hunts before waterfowl season consumed me...was a bit rusty but ha...
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BAYMAN718
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We Got Trumped...Literally!
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My buddy and I went out this morning...with great expectations, to a field in Walterboro, SC where we hunted last year. The field is a high-end dove field that is perfect. It is situated near a county landfill and a horse facility so there is a never ending supply of the black bandits. The owner repor...
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Island Shooter
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Anyone ever felt Like you had Target Panic?
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Today felt really weird, It was really windy. 25 with 45 MPH gusts. I was in the timber which helped slightly. Had a decent shoot to put 30 on the ground, but there were a lot of shots that I felt hesitant and thought I should make. They would set into the wind and they were almost motionless it seemed and I wh...
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Coyotes Ate My Piebald
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Hello fellas, A nice batch of warm air has pushed thru Michigan and melted most of the snow. Things are soggy to say the least....(the ground, not my britches). Anyway, I shot a decent piebald. A pic is below. I thought for a moment about putting the bird on the wall. I passed on the idea and fed him to...
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