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DIY hay bale blind.
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I was at one of our local building and rental stores and saw these. These are used to prevent erosion. They are 8' X 100 and something. A little over 900 square feet. They cost around $44. There is a fine plastic mesh woven on either side. I am thinking this will work well on some of our fields. A few steaks an...
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new DOUBLE BARREL - ADDED PHOTO
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Picked up my "new" double barrel last night at Cabelas. It patterned beautifully using my favorite load of #7 & 1/2s. Took my dog Weasel and the Nitro Special across the road and chased the rabbits. I got one at about 15 yards with the modified barrel. The other I hit at about 35-40 yards w...
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Flyway question
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1. Locate Roost - Check 2. Find flyways - .... This roost is located in the middle of a city. The city is surrounded by farmland, but its large enough that I'm not sure how to efficiently locate their paths of travel in the morning. And since its located a good distance away from me, I would like to get a...
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Photos of 2012
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Here are a few photos taken after New Years. Bob A.
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Anybody got any of these???
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These are some of the old shells from my collection. I collected back in the early 80's. The large single shell is an 8 guage rifled slug. Some of these boxes were purchased with ration stamps during world war II. These boxes are all in top shape and the shells will still shoot believe it or not. I'm sure th...
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Today's Hunt
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Went out this morning with a friend of mine to a state park that allows crow hunting to try out my new blind. After 3 hours and several missed birds...we ended up with 2 birds killed and 1 that was blown from the sky, but some how got back up and flew away. Not good by anyone's standards, but the first crows ei...
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Crow handcalls
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Hello, Im new here to the new site, posted a few times on the old one. Not much though, but lurked quite often. I make calls, mostly predator calls, and became interested in the wood toneboard crow calls a while back. Got some advice from a couple kind people here, and started making a few. Wanted to say th...
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johnny stewart
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i burned up my wall charger to my johnny stewart cassette caller(had a cut in the wire!). Will a regular 12 volt wall charger work to charge it?
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Hammerin' crow call
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I have seen on the web site that this call can be adjusted by moving the reed but I can't seem to figure it out unless there were two different kinds and mine does not move. I can't seem to get this thing to sound anything resembling a crow so if it can be adjusted maybe that's all I need. If someone could let me...
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Shed a few tears today.
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On the invitation of a friend we attended a commissioning ceremony today for the deployment of the 1-171 MEDEVAC Army National Guard's Foxtrot Company. It was very moving watching their family and friends prepare to send them off for a year long deployment to Afghanistan. I was very proud to be ther...
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Audacity
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Hey, I've seen several comments about how we use the same e-caller sounds all over the world. I have taken various commercial and non-commercial crow sounds and used Audacity editing software that I downloaded on line to mix up some of my own sounds. You can copy and paste portions to repeat, delete...
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Tastes like Chicken!
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My crow hunting partner and I enjoy crow hunting so much that we named our barbeque team "Old Crow Smokers"; you know that they taste just like chicken!
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Volume question
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A buddy and i have started tryin a new strategy that seems to be working pretty well. We get in the river bottom right next to the river and call down the river. Sound travels pretty well. We start off with fairly low volume trying to call in the closer birds first, then increase the volume picking up the on...
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First Crow Hunt
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So I went on my first crow hunt this evening where I always see a ton of crows in a cut corn field(the field was cut and tilled already). We passed a few crows along the road before we got there but saw none there. That didnt discourage me in the least as I was full of confidence still. I put out my dekes(3 flock...
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Where do crows roost??
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i have hunted crows many years, but i have yet figured out where they roost. do they roost together? what kind of trees do they roost in? what time do they go to roost? any comments are welcome
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Shoot the first crow?
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Hey guys, First time posting on the site, but I've been cruising these boards almost non-stop for quite a while now. I've read a couple of places that shooting the first crow on the scene is a bad idea because he acts as the scout for the rest of the group and if you miss, the rest won't come near. Any truth to...
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I found my new Shotgun
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I posted a couple months ago about wanting a double barrel, side by side. I hd looked at an old Lefever. I returned today to Cabelas today and it was still there. A Lefever Nitro Special by Ithica. 12 guage, double triggers, 30" barrels, full and modified. The bores are near perfect, very tight act...
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Wonderful Crow Day!
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I apologize in advance as I cannot help myself... I gotta post the events of last Friday...that started a week ago today when I was giving out Christmas presents to the dairy farmers who are kind allow me to shoot their crows and pigeons. Last Wed. I arrived at the 4th farm of the day around 1 pm...it was r...
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Crows for Christmas-Pic!!
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Here is the pic from the Christmas Day Hunt
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Zinger Blind field report
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I own a 7 panel I use for crow hunting and predator hunting. I don't have a thing to do with the company. I am going on 2 years on mine and it still is like new. Light and sets up in a minute. with the outside straps you can slip natural local vegetation in a second. The drop slots in the front are great for kids t...
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Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count
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Since I live near Ithaca, NY and Cornell University with their Lab of Ornithology, I read about some interesting data in the local paper. This year, one bird species with a particularly weak showing was the crow. Last year, local birders counted 9,000, and this year, because the weather has been war...
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Got motion ?.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAibQB_aGC0&feature=endscreen&NR=1
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A first for Noah!!
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This was Noah's first deer! Started off the morning getting busted by a doe that smelled us. Then had a buck crash in checking his scrape line but it did not present a shot. Finally around 9 AM had three does come into the stand. Noah was asleep when I poked him and pointed to them. He got his gun up and had to w...
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How many leave the blind to tidy up during the hunt?
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Just curious as to the thoughts of others as to whether you let all downed birds lay till the hunt is over? Or do you retrieve long birds that may hang up the incoming birds? We generally just let them lay where they fall. In the last two hunts we have had odd situations where the birds were hanging up on dow...
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Benelli shooters
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Anybody got a extra A shim for a M1, SBE or monty? Im not shooting My M1 as good as I did with a A shim. Done some trading a while back and ended up putting the wrong shim in the gun I traded. Cant find one online.
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My new blind! More Pics added
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This is just a tease. I will post pick as soon as I have time. It is made from sch 80 pvc T's and 45's and cheap telescoping paint poles. It will telescope in the following dimensions: length, width, and height. You can even have one side higher that the other. The netting is 19' 8" x 9' 8" Milit...
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New Years Eve
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Had a really good day.
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I spent the morning shooting crows with a friend I met this last summer while shooting clays. He is an accomplished trap shooter and an outstanding wing-shooter. He has a lead shot maker and makes all of his own shot and also ours. Most of the crows we have killed this year have been taken with his shot. I...
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Flyway ?
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Have permission to hunt a small parcel less than 1/4 mile from an active landfill. It is also an active flyway. Last year we would go out and set up before dawn and have a blast when the birds would come over and decoy in, the only problem was they would still be in a large flock. Bang, bang and it was over. Wou...
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hunting blinds
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I got a hunting blind for Christmas and i was wondering if i would be able to use it crow hunting? -- Edited by game on Tuesday 27th of December 2011 10:53:41 PM
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