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Bob · Guru

Lots & lots of crows

LeviSS · Veteran Member

That's unreal! I wish I lived in Bob's world. :)

8fishermen · Guru

That is pretty cool! Very nice blind too. How many did y'all whack?

davejohnson2 · Veteran Member

i bet you got more crows in one pic than i have in my whole county!!!!

JaredinPA · Member

These pics make me want to jump in the truck and head for Kansas!!!

Splash One · Senior Member

WOW!

I bet a cluster bomb would net you a tidy TBC.

Mainehunt · Guru

LeviSS wrote:

That's unreal! I wish I lived in Bob's world. :)

Amen Brother!

Kev

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Bob · Guru

Hello Greg,

The both of us shot 207 in that spot, there was a big pit on the east side of us. The tall grass to our east was a great screen as the crows came in low over it and every time we shot you could hear an echo that sounded like you were on the "Gong Show" from the 1970's. It didn't seem to bother the crows one bit. We had an "LPB" to use Jim Lundquists words here, that stands for low profile blind! The blind was in a depression below the grade of the trail we drove in on. Thats a good natural cover blind that we have used for several years.

Bob A.

Bustem · Newbie

great post , & shooting Bob.. and many more Just curious, Is Kansas that target rich ? it seems I have a long lost ccousin hidden in SW kansas somewhere.. what a idea !!

M12Shooter · Guru

Third pic in the series, the brush blind rocks. Nice and open with no bothersome trees/branches above. Shot a few double out of that one I would think.

Ted

Polish Hammer · Senior Member

Hey Bustem,

I (we - Watch Em Fall and myself) have been to SW Kansas three times in the last two years (coyote hunting) and we have never seen a crow. So, that's not SW Kansas. I hear you though...I'd love to hunt a super flyway like that just once. It'd be like shooting fish in a barrel. Although, I don't think shooting fish in a barrel would be that easy. Maybe with a Skeet tube and 8 shot...haha

How would a person go about finding out where these HUGE flyways are???

Hammer

Big Honkers · Guru

Bob hunts a lot of different states so assuming that the pics were from KS is a fairly big assumption.

shaddart · Guru

I'd be happy to just see ground without snow, the birds would just be a bonus. Bob, the GONG SHOW ? I'll bet there are more people on this site that don't remember it than do ! That show was hysterical, not that I'm old enough to remember it LOL!!

Bob · Guru

Hi Jerry,

So you can remember Chuck Berris from the Gong Show; every time we shot at a crow it sounded like the gong on the gong show, it was really pretty funny.

Man did they ever have a bunch of screw balls on that show! Lots of laughs!

Bob A.

Polish Hammer · Senior Member

I'm 36 yrs. old and can faintly remember the original Gong Show. Maybe they were showing re-runs..haha.

Any thoughts on how to find these big crow roosts...especially when you live in the Eastern USA and these bigger roosts/flyways are elsewhere.

Hammer

Bob · Guru

Matt,

Western New York State and PA hold quite a few crows. The main thing that holds you back in some of those areas is the damn snow. It gets so deep you can't get around, you can easily high center a 4x4 in that country. What a guy needs is to trailer a snowmobile if he intends to get serious about hunting crows in that part of the world.

Bob A.

Charles · Member

Bob wrote:

Matt,

Western New York State and PA hold quite a few crows. The main thing that holds you back in some of those areas is the damn snow. It gets so deep you can't get around, you can easily high center a 4x4 in that country. What a guy needs is to trailer a snowmobile if he intends to get serious about hunting crows in that part of the world.

Bob A.

Bob,
Funny you said that. Up here in Maine our season opens next Tuesday. Mainehunt and I are planning to hunt. The plan includes a snowmoblie and trailer!

Bob · Guru

Hello Charles,

You guys are smart, otherwise you would have to hunt off the road! If you can afford it it sure helps to have the equipment you need to do the job!

Good Hunting!

Bob A.

Island Shooter · Guru

This should give you a little flavor of The Gong Show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ozU4KcvIZ0

I.S.

shaddart · Guru

Bob, I was wrong, some people do remember the gong show. I used to look forward to that show every week, I'd sit there & laugh my butt off & my wife could'nt understand why I thought it was so funny, guess that shows what a classy guy I am. Jerry

Polish Hammer · Senior Member

Or like the Three Stooges. I watch them and my wife thinks I'm nuts. They're hillarious.

Hammer

shaddart · Guru

yeah. I watch the stooges on sat mornings, I get the same reaction. Bet I've seen them all a dozen times

shotgunshooter12 · Veteran Member

so who thinks Chuck Berris was actually a Secret Agent? a.k.a A SPY?

Bob · Guru

Hi Ted,

Thats a good spot, the crows have no clue you're there until it's to late! It's easy to get to, you just drive right up to the blind and dump off you're gear and drive the pickup away and you're all set.

Bob A.

black duck nick · Veteran Member

great pics Bob, that would be an awesome sight. i'll have to drive thru that part of the country just to see it oneday.
i notice you use a lot of gear, sometimes it takes alot to get alot! great when you can drive right up to the blind. how far from the blind in that country do you park your truck?

Bob · Guru

Hi Gary,

My partner likes to drive the pickups into the next zip code but I don't think it's necessary at all. He used to drive his truck 200 yards from the blind and I'd just park mine 100 yards from the blind and we would have great shooting.

The crows are used to seeing pickups and tractors in the field all the time, thats why it does not bother them.

Bob A.

M12Shooter · Guru

Bob wrote:

Hi Gary,

My partner likes to drive the pickups into the next zip code but I don't think it's necessary at all. He used to drive his truck 200 yards from the blind and I'd just park mine 100 yards from the blind and we would have great shooting.

The crows are used to seeing pickups and tractors in the field all the time, thats why it does not bother them.

Bob A.

Most often park my vehicle no further than 200 yards from a blind. Much closer for R&G type shooting. Never found it to spook crows, especially in agricultural regions but I do try and tuck it into some nearby brush or fence line. Infact, many times crows fly over my parked truck to get to the action biggrin

I have shot a mountain of crows hiding behind my truck with the ecaller placed on the roof if you can believe that! Not an intellegent way of going about crow shooting but sometimes the situation warrants it smile

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Ted

Bob · Guru

Hi Ted,

Years back I had a pecan orchard owner drive his pickup right behind my blind and then turned the engine off just to watch me. I already had well over 200 down already so the crows were more fixated on the dead birds than his truck. He watched be shoot about 30 crows and then went to town and brought lunch back for me, he drove it right to the blind! The same guy did it for Dick Kilbane and I last season, Dick said he never had that happen before, I said "he is just a very nice guy" we bought about $ 100.00 worth of pecans from him before we left that day.

Bob A.

Mainehunt · Guru

I watched the Gong Show all the time. I remember Chuck, Jamie Farr and Rip Taylor. Funny, funny show.
Kev
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M12Shooter · Guru

Bob wrote:

Hi Ted,

Years back I had a pecan orchard owner drive his pickup right behind my blind and then turned the engine off just to watch me. I already had well over 200 down already so the crows were more fixated on the dead birds than his truck. He watched be shoot about 30 crows and then went to town and brought lunch back for me, he drove it right to the blind! The same guy did it for Dick Kilbane and I last season, Dick said he never had that happen before, I said "he is just a very nice guy" we bought about $ 100.00 worth of pecans from him before we left that day.

Bob A.

I wouldn't mind sitting in my truck Bob and watching you shoot thirty or forty crows as well biggrin

Ted

-- Edited by M12Shooter on Monday 31st of January 2011 11:35:56 PM

gearly65 · Senior Member

Hey Bob, I used to hunt crows 20 years ago with a tape recorder, speaker and no decoys and shot a few. But I bought a foxpro caller and some decoys and have been getting more serious about hunting crows. We have managed to shoot 18 to 41 everytime out.
I live and hunt in Northern Indiana and have heard that putting the dead crows in the setup is a good thing to do. In your opinion, does this work? I have done this but it seems to spook them a little bit. What am I doing wrong?? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

8fishermen · Guru

Look back though some of Bob's pics. Just leave them there and keep shooting. The more on the ground, the easier they commit.

gearly65 · Senior Member

Thanks Buddy. Do I have to set them a certain way or doesn't it matter??

Big Honkers · Guru

Just leave them however they fall.

8fishermen · Guru

Hey Big,

My favorite is the one with their head burried in the ground. biggrin

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WOW!I bet a cluster bomb would net you a tidy TBC.

WOW!

I bet a cluster bomb would net you a tidy TBC.