Hey guys hit the first crow that I shot at this year. Gun club practice must be paying off Anyway had a couple questions for those more knowledgeable than I. When you guys do a feeding set is there any rhyme or reason to how you set out the decoys? I know there a variety of ways to set out duck decoys that involve specific patterns and the thought crossed my mind that there may be something similar for setting crow decoys. I do plan on setting more of them in the trees next time though. It doesn't take very high grass to swallow a ground staked decoy. Also, I had one hang up on me today, around fifty yards away. He just kept responding to my calling with a couple of different sounds. The one I hadn't heard before went like this: caw-cawaw-caw-cawaw-caw-cawaw. I am not that good yet at translating crow so I was wondering if you guys know what he was saying. One day I will learn to speak the language...
You were hearing the recognition call from that crow.
If you want to learn more about the crow language you can buy a copy of "Bob Aronsohn's Hand Calling Crows" cd right here at Crowmart under educational material.
I made this for fellas who want to know what the differen't calls mean.
Hey Bob, I have your cd already and it is an invaluable tool. This crow didn't make the noise quite as you did on your cd. He actually wasn't as clear in seperating the caw and the aw, lol. If you know what I mean. Nice pictures too. Good shooting.
-- Edited by PA Crownut on Sunday 14th of August 2011 05:58:55 PM
I wander if what you heard wasn't a fish crow. That are terrible about hanging up and make a sound similar to what you described with almost a quacking sound. They are smaller and lots of times are in killing distance when you think they aren't. When we have one do that we shoot even if we think it is out of range by a little. If you don't kill it you will at least run it off and it won't entice others to hang up with it. You may be surprised at how many of them you bring down.
Good luck.
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"If money can fix it, it ain't broke" The great theologian and my crow hunting partner AW.
PA My best learning came from just pulling off the side of the road and watching crows feed and frolic. When I first started I would set deeks out facing the wind like duck deeks. WRONG. When I realized that I was gonna get serious about this business, I started watching the birds a month before season, learned alot. When you are driving home from work or if you have 5 minutes here and there, just sit and watch em. They will teach you everything you need to know. They say a crow mates for life I am in the process of restructuring the breeding habits myself There are thousands down here that are single now I noticed last year in late season the birds were more interested in my spread if I sporadically paired my decoys. I think they start the pairing up process at the beginning of Febuary. If a yearling mature bird sees paired deeks in your spread then notices a couple birds off to their self they will show enough interest to be dead
I don't want to sound to incensitive here, but a couple of times last season I had several pairs of crows come by inorder to get divorced from one another! I'd just shoot the hen birds so the **** crows could go find another female that they were more compatible with, yup, "Bob's divorce court" for crows only! LOL.
Bob A.
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I don't want to sound to incensitive here, but a couple of times last season I had several pairs of crows come by inorder to get divorced from one another! I'd just shoot the hen birds so the **** crows could go find another female that they were more compatible with, yup, "Bob's divorce court" for crows only! LOL.
Bob A.
Divorce court! Judge Bob style! Now that's funny! LOL
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"If money can fix it, it ain't broke" The great theologian and my crow hunting partner AW.
Anyway had a couple questions for those more knowledgeable than I. When you guys do a feeding set is there any rhyme or reason to how you set out the decoys? I know there a variety of ways to set out duck decoys that involve specific patterns and the thought crossed my mind that there may be something similar for setting crow decoys. I do plan on setting more of them in the trees next time though. It doesn't take very high grass to swallow a ground staked decoy. Also, I had one hang up on me today, around fifty yards away. He just kept responding to my calling with a couple of different sounds. The one I hadn't heard before went like this: caw-cawaw-caw-cawaw-caw-cawaw. I am not that good yet at translating crow so I was wondering if you guys know what he was saying. One day I will learn to speak the language...
I am in the process of restructuring the breeding habits myself
