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8fishermen · Guru

What's the strangest things you have found in a crows beak??

crow commander · Senior Member

we can never kill them on the 1st shot. theres always a finishing shot. lol weve only seen a busted beak, prolly from the shot of course. its neat yall find them carrying items.

Splash One · Senior Member

Killed inside 20 yards and didn't let go of lunch.

nhcrowshooter · Guru

crow commander wrote:

we can never kill them on the 1st shot. theres always a finishing shot. lol weve only seen a busted beak, prolly from the shot of course. its neat yall find them carrying items.

Switch to number 6 shot for better first shot results biggrin

ba24 · Veteran Member

Switch to number 6 shot for better first shot results

Why? Is it more knock down power? I patterned 6, 7 1/2, and 8 out of my gun on a piece of note book paper at 30 yards and noticed that 6's had the least amount of pellets on the paper by a huge margin which caused me to shy away from #6's. But I do get a lot of cripples that need a second shot.

-- Edited by ba24 on Sunday 6th of March 2011 02:04:59 PM

-- Edited by ba24 on Sunday 6th of March 2011 02:05:56 PM

shaddart · Guru

shot 1 by a dump & it died with a chicken wing still in it's beak. I agree with NH 5s & 6s, especially in handloads drops em clean, very few cripples.

nhcrowshooter · Guru

If the number 6 pattern is too thin on the pattern board tighten up the choke constriction or increase the payload or both. However light loads with tight choke will produce a pattern that no crow can live through if centered.

Do you see a crow surviving the shot below? It's 7/8 ounce of number 6 from a 20ga.

KOB · Member

I've seen 'em swoop down in the Bojangle's parking lot and get a french fry and take off with it.

trenchcrow · Member

Was on a hunt 2 years ago and had a couple fly over. Took a shot at one who I could see had something in his mouth. Well, I missed but he dropped something which I later recovered. It was a piece of red squirrel skin. Never have had a crow drop his lunch before.

Big Honkers · Guru

Interesting topic.

I love shooting crows with stuff in their mouths. I usually shout out something like "No soup for you!" when I connect with a food transporting bandit.

The strangest thing I have recovered from a crows mouth was a nearly whole smiley potato crisp thingy. They are pictured below. I remember the shot and I could see on the birds approach that there was something big in its mouth. The bandit worked great and gave me a nice over head shot at about 20 yards. I poofed 'em and the bird fell about 5 yards left of the blind and the smiley potato got knocked out of his mouth and landed almost within arms reach of the blind. The bird had pecked out one of the smiley's eyes but the rest remained intact.

No soup for you!

NHCrow · Veteran Member

shot one with a french fry in his mouth. that is the only time i have ever found anything in a crows mouth

SHANEDOG · Guru

I shot one that had a frozen scallop in its beak,I looked for the picture but could not find it. smile

8fishermen · Guru

Big Honkers wrote:

Interesting topic.

I love shooting crows with stuff in their mouths. I usually shout out something like "No soup for you!" when I connect with a food transporting bandit.

The strangest thing I have recovered from a crows mouth was a nearly whole smiley potato crisp thingy. They are pictured below. I remember the shot and I could see on the birds approach that there was something big in its mouth. The bandit worked great and gave me a nice over head shot at about 20 yards. I poofed 'em and the bird fell about 5 yards left of the blind and the smiley potato got knocked out of his mouth and landed almost within arms reach of the blind. The bird had pecked out one of the smiley's eyes but the rest remained intact.

No soup for you!

That's Funny!!! biggrin biggrin

Skip · Guru

I watched a crow pick up 4 french fries in a Hardees parking lot, fly to a nearby tree limb, remove 3 of the fries from his mouth, hold them with his foot and procede to carefully eat them one at a time. Yes, I reached for my gun that was not there when he flew up towards the tree as a french-fry laden dead crow would have made a great picture.

Peanuts and pecans.. are the only items I have ever found in a deceased crow's mouth.

skip

wingmaster · Senior Member

Best thing to do if near a dump. Use a Mcdonalds bag bring them in LOL

Hizzoner · Senior Member

I shot 1 two weeks ago that had bread in his mouth,he didn't even take time to eat it but came to my call to start harrassing my "OWL"! Well needless to say he's in crow heaven/ coyote's stomach!!

Mr Benelli · Veteran Member

1/3 slice of pizza. After being shot the crow took it all the way down to the ground. He was eating at a campground about 1/4 mile a way heard the caller and came screaming in. Greedy crow.