This morning I had so much to do to prepare for deer season 2mar. I could not stand it, the town crows were screamin. I wanted to have an even 500 before deer season break. I jumped in the truck and ran down to the Big Muddy river. It was cloudy and foggy and didn't look to promising. Pic one is from my hasty hide (dont look Shane) I was right on the bank of the river, about 500 birds feding on the other side of the levee in a plowed field. 2 and 3 are of dead bandits in a mud flat, most all of my birds fell right into the river. #4 is of my cripple that would just scream at the incomming birds, but my CS-24 needed no help. I put out 6 carrylite feeders, hung some Sentry's in a 8 foot tall bunch of buck brush and turned on crows on tha fox pro. I had several singles and doubles come in and I whacked em. I needed 23 for an even 500 for the season total. After about my 15th bird I hit the crow fight on the fox pro and all hell broke loose. They were comming in in droves. I finished with 26 birds in about 50 minutes of hunting. TBC 503 for the year. I will break now for shotgun deer, start back about Wednesday of next week. Lessons learned this trip. If you see a huge bunch of birds in an area, get as far away as your sound system will allow before you hunt them. You wont get the whole bunch in at one time and hand out a bunch of Harvard degrees. If possible get up wind of the feeding birds. Your sound will carry much farther and they tend to come in lower on approach. I also found that just as the birds get close to gun range, if they are high switch your call to dying crow, it really pisses them of and will turn a shot at bird almost everytime......
-- Edited by chip on Thursday 18th of November 2010 07:55:19 PM
Chip congrats on the 1/2K TBC thats awesome! Keep it going. I'm getting geared up to go on another crowquest hunt this weekend myself, Gotta get my fill before the deer shotgun season comes in after thanksgiving weekend.
Flattery will get you nowhere Shane I know how you are with your hides, I'm embarrassed to put pics of mine on here sometimes, but you are right they work and that is what matters. Yes honk the 24 has changed my life and my hunting style, that thing should be against the law it is so awesome. Speaking of that, my son was about 75 yards from me this morn and saw a yote mousing in the field about 100 yards away. He whispered to me on the radio to turn on the call. I hit Woodpecker distress on about volum12 and that yote made a B-line balls out toward the sound. O'l Dyl was so excited he missed that yote at twenty yards. He got physically sick when he missed him. It was a big o'l rogue male too, Had a red back and looked like he weighed a 100 pounds. He will see that dog in his sleep 2nite
Hi Chip, Great posts & pictures! What kind of battery life are you getting out of your CS-24? Are you using AAs or 12v sealed? One speaker or two? All of the reviews I've read on this unit have been positive & I need a back-up for my FX3.
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