Hello to all. This is my first post on your site though I have been a paid member and a forum reader since 2008. I am writing re your advice. CT has a crow season that starts about October 18th and goes daily until about Feb 25th. The crow season opens when the general upland game season opens and then extends 120 days. The logic behind this is that crow season opens when the upland game season so if a hunter sees a crow when he is out hunting pheasants then he will know that crows are legal. The down side is that there are not much crow hunting being done since the majority of hunters are busy hunting something else. This does not do anything to help to bring down the size of the big roosts that we have here in CT esp in the Hartford area. Our neighboring state (RI) has a season that allows hunting 3 days a week from 8/27 to 4/18 the following year.
I would like to ask what type of season do you prefer? A longer one with fewer days a week or a shorter one that is continuous? Thanks
In NY we can hunt Fri thru Mon, Sept thru March & while I would like to be able to hunt the other days of the week, it gives me 3 days to concentrate on something else. I guess I'm content with our season the way it is.
Either option would be ok with me. MI has 1/2 the hunting days in Aug & Sept before the flights even start.
Kinda funny, from the NRC minutes I have read on crow hunting in MI, they take a completely different approach than what CT uses. They open crow season in Aug & Sept because few other seasons are open and it gives hunters a chance to get out and hunt something. Gee thanks.
Alabama lets you pick the 124 (federally mandated) days that you'd like to hunt crows.
Which makes a lot of sense.
Too bad more states (like my great state of North Carolina) don't have that kind of sense. I've talked to as many WRC people, biologists, and even state reps, and nobody cares enough to even think about it.
