Crow Busters Forum

nhcrowshooter · Guru

Send ammo, primers, powder wads and shot!

Gadget Bob · Guru

RE: Send Ammo, primers, powder wads and shot

nhcrowshooter · Guru

Hey there GB, thanks. First time ever for us to break a 100. We both broke personal daily high and team high records today. I switched to a 12ga Parker last Sunday afternoon because I can reload 12ga way faster than 10ga.

I use a VersaMec for the 10ga, slow but steady.

Skip · Guru

nhc: Congratulations!!!! The CCC (Crow Century Club) is not only exclusive it is somewhat elusive. Either way, it is an honor to have you and your partner as members. Very nice work, beautiful set up and results!! Thanks for sharning.

Skip

nhcrowshooter · Guru

Thanks Skip, the CCC, there should be a pin or patch smile

(and we did it with Double Guns!)

We are also an overnight success.............after 34 years of previous practice LOL!!!!!

-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Saturday 23rd of October 2010 10:06:46 PM

Pat B · Senior Member

NH,
absolutely amazing.......breaking a hundred in a day's shoot is my dream.
O.K. a drug (or alcohol) induced dream but a dream anyway.....

Congrats guy.

Way to stack 'em

Pat

Lone Star Phil · Senior Member

RE: Send ammo, primers, powder wads and shot!

watch em fall · Senior Member

All with double guns, very impressive!congrats

SHANEDOG · Guru

Great job NH!!! You guys put the hammer to those crows bigtime!!That farm looks like a great yote spot!! biggrin

black duck nick · Veteran Member

PLEASE SEND SOME SOUTH!

Dano · Veteran Member

Is it actually cheaper for you guys to reload your shotshells? I used to reload all of mine back about 8 years ago probably, got to be more expensive to do than just buying cheap factory shells in bulk. Maybe if I buy stuff from the internet it would be cheaper? who knows, good job on the crows!

Dano

Big Honkers · Guru

NH,

...your season did a complete 180 'eh? Nice score!

Puppypopper · Senior Member

SWeeeeeetttttttttttttt !!!!!!!!!

nhcrowshooter · Guru

Thanks everyone.

Yesterday we hit the same spot again, just too many birds to not do that. We put another 52 on the ground by Noon.

Big Honkers, yes the season did an amazing turnaround. We had two months of sub average shooting and then it turned 180 degrees with the biggest migration we have seen.

Puppypopper, saw your CB Century Club logo, well done, very clever of you.

Dano yes reloading is less expensive than factory shells. However you have to compare apples to apples. The cheap 4 packs sold at Wal-Mart or the cheap Remmy Game Loads sold by Dick's do not compare in performance to AA's or STS trap loads. My reloads use quality components with hard shot (vs. the chilled shot in the cheap shells). For the antique 10ga reloading is the only way to go, $7.50 a box for reloads vs. $30 for RST 2 7/8" 10ga. My 12ga reloads run $4.90 a box using hard #6 and if I were to use 7.5's it would be $4.20 a box (1 1/8) as a bag of lead is less for that size. AA or STS are running at least $7 a box.

Polish Hammer · Senior Member

NH,

This has probably been asked before...but.. Do you leave all your dead bodies in the field while you're there shooting? I have always left the dead ones lay and some people think they should be picked up becuase they scare/deter incoming crows. I haven't been sold on picking them up. Always seem if I run out to pick one up...then 3 bust me.

Thoughts?

OH, and congrats on the 100+ day. What is a "normal" day for you? Here in NW PA, Watch Em and I only get around 5-10 (2-3 hour hunt). We had one of our best last Sunday with 14. If the set up would have been a little better (too many overhanging limbs) we would have been in the 20's easily. Which would be awesome for us. The only way we'll ever have a 100 plus day is to leave PA and hunt a huge roost somewhere.

Hammer

M12Shooter · Guru

Welcome to the Century Club! Good too see you guys piling them up but I must admit it makes me a bit envious as most of the crows in my region have now departed. I have to now live my crow hunting life through this forum

As for dead crows spooking incomers, I must say that I rarely pick up many shot ones and have never found dead scattered around to be detremental to a shoot. I do however throw some up into the tree tops if they are bare of leaves.

Most of my higher volume shoots occure in the late summer and early fall when crops and cover are still tall and still green. Shot crows just dissapear into the cover and I rarely pick them up...just a few now and then for a photo

Good hunting guys!

Ted

-- Edited by M12Shooter on Monday 25th of October 2010 03:17:14 PM

nhcrowshooter · Guru

Hammer,

My experience has been dead birds add and enhance the decoy spread. They seem to bring the birds in more aggressively and cawing. If a bird crashes outside of shotgun range we do run out and bring it into the decoy spread. One dead one more than 50 yards away has a tendency to cause any incoming birds to hang up over it instead of coming into range.

Thanks on the Congrats. Seriously I never thought a 100 bird day was possible in NH. The crow hunting Gods have smiled on us this year. A normal or average two man 4 hour hunt produces 30 birds give or take 10 this time of year.

Polish Hammer · Senior Member

Still "30 give or take 10" would be an awesome day.

Keep after them!

Hammer

jd1983 · Senior Member

there's your powder wads and shot bout 900-1100 rds in there got a cat litter bucket with bout 300 not pictured all crow medicine. Reloads.

Gadget Bob · Guru

Hi JD,

Nice photo! Think of all of the fun these shells will produce!

Regards,

Gadget Bob

doccerny · Veteran Member

jd1983 wrote:

there's your powder wads and shot bout 900-1100 rds in there got a cat litter bucket with bout 300 not pictured all crow medicine. Reloads.
JD, ok that's enough shells for ME. But what are WE going to use for shells after lunch. LOL. Those Active shells bring back old memories. We use to shoot them back in my younger years. What kind of load recipe are ya reloading in them?

jd1983 · Senior Member

Actual activ data from aliant powder
red dot
claybuster fed 12s3 wads
fed primer
6 shot in them just because I run out of 7.5 &8
had no real use for the bag of 6 chilled I got for free so I used it up
1200 fps
roughly
got 550+ once fired activ hulls 2-3/4
looking for more !!! Hint hint
love em easer to find in the leaves and grass than them damn rem nitro or gunclubs ( gold and. Green ) some one needs to make neon hulls easy to spot.

I origionaly got them for turkey hulls but got some fed wad samples from claybuster wads and tried em and wow do they seem to work.