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akm0524


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Hello everyone, I have lurked here for some time..and I am hoping this spring to get out on my first crow hunt.  I have done tons of research, but one thing I keep coming back too, is...what do you do with all the crows you kill if you don't eat them?

I can't imagine you just leave them lay where they land...

Do you just bring a big leaf bag and pick them up then just throw them in the trash?

What do you do with all the crows you shoot?

Have a great day..and Happy New Year.

Alan



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Welcome,

The first thing to do is get out there and kill some, then worry about the dead. Buzzards, yotes and worms got to eat too. Don't worry, just toss them in the woods and they will disappear.

Happy hunting

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Seriously? Gotta think if I am on private land, that owner is not going to want a bunch of rotting carcass's laying around. But hey, if that's all that's too it, heck yeah...makes it easy and no worries.



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Just talk to the land owner not to ruin your hunting spot but, it should not be a problem, every critter will chew them up. You can always eat them yourself, but not me.

Mike

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Good question.

The answer to the after-action clean up question is two-part, in my way of thinking, depending on where you are creating these piles of bio-mass:

1. Follow the land owner's wishes if hunting private land.  The pecan orchard owners, to a man, want us to leave them in the orchard as an omen to other crows.  But the TCP will relocate the pile over to where it doesn't hamper nut gathering machinery.
2. Leave 'em lying there on public land.  Personally, I don't like to leave any sign for any other hunters, so, if I did hunt public land, I might invest the extra effort to bag 'em up for later disposal or stuff them down a nearby hole

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A lot of critters eat dead crows and other things. I have seen eagles pick up wounded or dead duck (before the dog got a chance to retrieve it) and crows. As already mentioned coyotes, fox, raccoon all eat carrion. Field mice will eat the meat and gnaw the bones for calcium. If bugs are around they will clean up whatever is left. One landowner does not want to see the dead crows all over the field, but does not mind if I toss them in a clump of brush, or in a drainage ditch. He just does not want to see them. Ask the landowner.

Pat

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thats funny lone star phil, let them lie for a message to other crows. i always bag them so noone knows my success. i have access to a deep kutzu valley that i throw all my animal waste in.

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These guys are right,I never leave them in the field,I gather them up and dump them in strategic swamps,way out of the way so tree huggers and others wont be offended,later in the winter I will try to call coyotes off of the dump sites. But the animals clean them up quick. I also pick up every hull I can find,and I leave my blinds clean.The farmers like when you treat the land with respect.smile

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For every crow I feed a Yote, that is one less squirrel or rabbit he will eat. I like to shoot and eat squirrel and rabbits too you know and all I am doing is setting the table for my competitor. biggrinbiggrin

We do pick the up out of the field and move them to the wood-lines.

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