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Bob · Guru

RE: 500 bird shoot

Hizzoner · Senior Member

Bob,
So far my memory has benn good,but I wished I kept logs like you have,I just hope we get old enough not to remeber!! Pigeon shooting and even crows in my area has Diminshed Drastically due to the goverment milk cow buy out years back,no cows=no feed=no dung=no field to spread dung=NO CROWS,NO PIGEONS,NO DOVES!! Big brother is/has pushed the small guy out!! And we travel!! just have to keep traveling!!

Hizzoner · Senior Member

Hey Bob,
Did you check out my "CROW TREE"? Works pretty good especially in the marsh or in a field with no trees! smile

Bob · Guru

Hello Hizz,

Yes, you're tree looks just fine.

Many years ago I was hunting with my old pal Boyd and the only good spot was where there was no tree for the decoys? Boyd says to me "stay put and get things ready, I'll be back" about 20 minutes later I see Boyd draging a tree behind his pickup with a log chain! He pulls up next to the blind and says help me get this tree back up. It's a small tree about 3 inches in dia and 15 to 18 feet tall. We get the tree into position using a good solid fence post as support and we used the log chain to hold the tree in place, worked like a charm. When we got done shooting we used a ton of Tye Wire in place of the log chain to hold it in position for the rest of the season.

Bob A.

Hizzoner · Senior Member

Bob,
I thought you'd get a kick out of it,I anchor my tree with a piece of black pipe cut at an angle the same as a surf rod holder. that mount you were on 20's or 40's? AWSOME FIREPOWER!! biggrin

SHANEDOG · Guru

Ok Hizz!! PM me the name of that pig farm in Mass.!!!!! confuse

-- Edited by SHANEDOG on Monday 23rd of August 2010 10:03:18 PM

Hizzoner · Senior Member

Shane,
I'd love to but its a "GHOST TOWN NOW" you'd never know it was there,but maybe do a hunt in the winter after duck season,My 2 labs got lyme and I'm getting checked myself-the TICKS suck!! Been cooling it in the hot weather DEET OR NO DEET-Ticks= disbelief

-- Edited by Hizzoner on Monday 23rd of August 2010 10:12:38 PM

SHANEDOG · Guru

Hizz
I hear you on the ticks,I get checked every six months. confuse

Where is your base of operation? I grew up in North Hadley Mass. I live in Monson Mass. now. smile

jd1983 · Senior Member

Shane I should be driving by real close to you on Saturday on my way to cape cod. Ahhhhh vacation.

Hizzoner · Senior Member

Shaneo,
I used to gun out in Hadley years ago near the airport,there used to be an awsome crow flyway in the Conn. Valley and the last time I was at the big E the crows were all over the place! I'm out on the coast, but have to travel to get away from THE LIBERALS!! Near Boston,but I shoot where ever I can or where the birds are.Wanna get out on a duck hunt on the ocean P.M. me

Bob · Guru

Hizz,

The gun mount that I was on in the navy was called a 5 inch 38 which shot a 58 pound projectile. When we shot it manually I controled the horizontal movement of the gun mount. It was like looking through a scope on a varmint rifle! At 10,000 yards we could reach out and touch you with that 5 inch gun.

Bob A.

Hizzoner · Senior Member

Yo Bob,
I've seen 'em,they are on the USS MASSACHUSETT in FALL RIVER, MASS. I usually make an annual trip there,they have one of the BEST ww2 museums there1

savana · Newbie

Crow hunting is required when you are getting a big loss in your town or on your crops. As, I have found many crows hunting small birds from their places and mainly they hunt for robins and black birds which is very annoying.

Even, if you are applying every measures to get rid of them, you cant get it done well.

Bob · Guru

Hey, as long as we are on the subject of large shoots here are some facts from an old Field & Stream article from February 1951, written by Bert Popowski.

Bert was interviewing Dr. Phillips from Houston, TX in 1951 and asked him what was his biggist crow shoot by himself? Dr. Phillips said 458 crows by himself, but he ran out of ammo that day so he does not know how many more crows he might have shot if the ammo were there to be had!

Bert mentioned in the article (up to that point in time) that he had never had a substantial kill by himself, he always had one or both of his sons with him. Bert went on to say that the largest shoot he ever had was with John his oldest son. The both of them shot 527 crows on an afternoon flyway shoot in Nebraska. Then he, Red Watt (from Omaha) and Frank Rusk shot 556 crows in one afternoon in Nebraska prior to 1951.

Bob A.

Hizzoner · Senior Member

It must have been "THE SEEDS" gunning like that back then,plenty of birds and a trusty model 12 or 97 at your side!!
I CAN ONLY DREAM OF IT!

Bob · Guru

Hizz,

Don't forget, they had no e-callers in those days! It was all "hand calling the crows"

The model 12 and 97 were "the guns" in those days as were the model 31 Remington pump and the model 37 Ithica. The Ithica was to light for any type of real volume shooting, but the other pumps mentioned here were real work horses!

Bob A.

M12Shooter · Guru

Bob wrote:

Hizz,

Don't forget, they had no e-callers in those days! It was all "hand calling the crows"

The model 12 and 97 were "the guns" in those days as were the model 31 Remington pump and the model 37 Ithica. The Ithica was to light for any type of real volume shooting, but the other pumps mentioned here were real work horses!

Bob A.

I still shoot almost exclusively Model 12 Winchesters on crows and other game. Love the way they point and cramming six shells into the mag tube is also a nice feature. 97's are nice shotguns as well, actions are not anywhere as smooth as the 12's but they do point well. I only own one 97 Winchester or thumb buster as my dad's old uncle used to call them smile

Ted

Hizzoner · Senior Member

M12,
Those 97's can be touchy if you have a broken spring in the bolt!! My buddy's 97 which is now mine,he was loading it rite beside me one day and when he closed the slide the hammer went with it!! Almost blew my leg off! A lot to be said for ALWAYS POINT YOUR GUN IN A SAFE DIRECTION!!