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8fishermen · 8fishermen

Noah and I went for a short hunt yesterday morning and ended the year with a 46. We had one bird come in making a funny sound with something in its mouth. It was an unopened McDonald's ketchup package. The funny thing is the closest McDonalds is about 20 miles away. I am sure it picked it up from the side of th...

8fishermen · 8fishermen

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...

Mainehunt · Mainehunt

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...

NGillespie10 · NGillespie10

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...

Bob · Bob

Here are a few photos taken after New Years. Bob A.

chip · chip

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...

NGillespie10 · NGillespie10

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...

Lonehowl · Lonehowl

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...

thundergun · thundergun

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?

rz · rz

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...

8fishermen · 8fishermen

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...

Rook-ie · Rook-ie

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...

canoemac · canoemac

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!

crowcommander · crowcommander

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...

BigWilly · BigWilly

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...

thundergun · thundergun

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

NGillespie10 · NGillespie10

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...

Mainehunt · Mainehunt

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...

Skip · Skip

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...

gearly65 · gearly65

Here is the pic from the Christmas Day Hunt

Kevin Burroughs · Kevin Burroughs

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...

Rook-ie · Rook-ie

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...

Kevin Burroughs · Kevin Burroughs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAibQB_aGC0&feature=endscreen&NR=1

8fishermen · 8fishermen

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...

8fishermen · 8fishermen

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...

Troy Seal · Troy Seal

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.

8fishermen · 8fishermen

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...

jonthepain · jonthepain

Happy Amateur Night!

8fishermen · 8fishermen

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...

arnold c · arnold c

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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	Would you like fries with that? (Preview) Noah and I went for a short hunt yesterday morning and ended the year with a 46. We had one bird come in making a funny sound with something in its mouth. It was an unopened McDonald's ketchup package. The funny thing is the closest McDonalds is about 20 miles away. I am sure it picked it up from the side of th...	8fishermen	18	1107	Jan 11, 2012 by 8fishermen
	DIY hay bale blind. (Preview) 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...	8fishermen	10	11400	Jan 10, 2012 by thundergun
	new DOUBLE BARREL - ADDED PHOTO (Preview) 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...	Mainehunt	12	3041	Jan 10, 2012 by NGillespie10
	Flyway question (Preview) 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...	NGillespie10	4	590	Jan 10, 2012 by NGillespie10
	Photos of 2012 (Preview) Here are a few photos taken after New Years. Bob A.	Bob	10	707	Jan 10, 2012 by gearly65
	Anybody got any of these??? (Preview) 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...	chip	14	1236	Jan 10, 2012 by hooks2bset
	Today's Hunt (Preview) 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...	NGillespie10	12	769	Jan 10, 2012 by hooks2bset
	Crow handcalls (Preview) 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...	Lonehowl	11	696	Jan 9, 2012 by SHANEDOG
	johnny stewart (Preview) 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?	thundergun	3	638	Jan 9, 2012 by thundergun
	Hammerin' crow call (Preview) 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...	rz	13	4215	Jan 9, 2012 by chip
	Shed a few tears today. (Preview) 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...	8fishermen	6	679	Jan 9, 2012 by chip
	Audacity (Preview) 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...	Rook-ie	4	843	Jan 6, 2012 by jonthepain
	Tastes like Chicken! (Preview) 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!	canoemac	10	1120	Jan 6, 2012 by Mainehunt
	Volume question (Preview) 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...	crowcommander	2	623	Jan 6, 2012 by 8fishermen
	First Crow Hunt (Preview) 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...	BigWilly	13	794	Jan 6, 2012 by 8fishermen
	Where do crows roost?? (Preview) 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	thundergun	3	778	Jan 6, 2012 by 8fishermen
	Shoot the first crow? (Preview) 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...	NGillespie10	13	2343	Jan 5, 2012 by Mainehunt
	I found my new Shotgun (Preview) 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...	Mainehunt	7	697	Jan 5, 2012 by Mainehunt
	Wonderful Crow Day! (Preview) 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...	Skip	23	1586	Jan 5, 2012 by 8fishermen
	Crows for Christmas-Pic!! (Preview) Here is the pic from the Christmas Day Hunt	gearly65	17	919	Jan 5, 2012 by thundergun
	Zinger Blind field report (Preview) 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...	Kevin Burroughs	1	567	Jan 4, 2012 by 8fishermen
	Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count (Preview) 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...	Rook-ie	3	592	Jan 4, 2012 by Saul
	Got motion ?. (Preview) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAibQB_aGC0&feature=endscreen&NR=1	Kevin Burroughs	3	659	Jan 4, 2012 by SHANEDOG
	A first for Noah!! (Preview) 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...	8fishermen	7	583	Jan 3, 2012 by SHANEDOG
	How many leave the blind to tidy up during the hunt? (Preview) 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...	8fishermen	15	987	Jan 3, 2012 by gearly65
	Benelli shooters (Preview) 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.	Troy Seal	1	573	Jan 2, 2012 by watch em fall
	My new blind! More Pics added (Preview) 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...	8fishermen	22	1706	Jan 2, 2012 by Troy Seal
	New Years Eve (Preview) Happy Amateur Night!	jonthepain	0	425	Jan 1, 2012 by jonthepain
	Had a really good day. (Preview) 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...	8fishermen	18	1065	Dec 30, 2011 by gearly65
	Flyway ? (Preview) 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...	arnold c	2	541	Dec 30, 2011 by arnold c
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