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spud76 · Veteran Member

hello from belfast,northern ireland

Bob · Guru

Welcome Spud,

I used to drink a drink called "a Belfast Bomber" up in Kansas City when I went up there on business. They served them in a very nice Irish Pub and most mortals couldn't drink more than two of them without passing out cold! I mean they were pretty potent.

So, whats the most crows you see at any one time around Ulster?

Keep us all posted Spud.

Bob A.

M12Shooter · Guru

Welcome to the forum from Canada Spud. Us Canadians and you Brits are almost cousins smile My heart goes out to you poor souls living with a crow epidemic on your hands biggrin Good shooting.

Ted

Gadget Bob · Guru

Hi Spud76,

Welcome to CrowBusters from the Texas Crow Patrol...

We look forward to your postings and photo's. My wife travelled to your beautiful country this summer with her church group. She loved seeing the sights, learning your history and meeting your people.

Your magpie plan for Tuesday sounds like a real winner! Matching wits with the black bandits can't be beat for fun.

Regards,

SHANEDOG · Guru

M12Shooter wrote:
Welcome to the forum from Canada Spud. Us Canadians and you Brits are almost cousins My heart goes out to you poor souls living with a crow epidemic on your hands Good shooting.

Ted

Ted

Calling an Irishman,a Brit,is like calling a Chinese man,Japanese,and vise versa.What were you thinking man!!

Spud

I was in Belfast in 2000,the day that Harland & Wolf lost the QE2 contract.It was a very powerfull visit for me as an Irish Catholic to tour your city. disbelief

I will say that I have only felt at home in one country,and that was Ireland,second was Scotland. smile

8fishermen · Guru

Welcome Spud. I really like pics of magpies. We dont have them around here but they are very cool.

Mainehunt · Guru

Welcome Spud! Half of my family came over here from Ireland.

Your avatar is great by the way. It makes me very thirsty! I would love to visit your country and sit over 2 or 12 pints with you. :)

Kev

jonthepain · Guru

Hey Spud,

Welcome. I look forward to hearing about your crow outings.

My brother in law grew up in Belfast; he was a professional boxer there, and his dad is a retired steeple-chaser who still lives there.

One of my best friends lives just outside of Cork.

There are a lot of Cawleys in Northern Ireland still. That's on my father's side; my mom is a MacAlister from the Kintyre Peninsula.

I've been to Kintyre, but I'd love to visit Ireland some day.

M12Shooter · Guru

SHANEDOG wrote:
M12Shooter wrote:
Welcome to the forum from Canada Spud. Us Canadians and you Brits are almost cousins My heart goes out to you poor souls living with a crow epidemic on your hands Good shooting.

Ted
Ted
Calling an Irishman,a Brit,is like calling a Chinese man,Japanese,and vise versa.What were you thinking man!!

Spud
I was in Belfast in 2000,the day that Harland & Wolf lost the QE2 contract.It was a very powerfull visit for me as an Irish Catholic to tour your city.
I will say that I have only felt at home in one country,and that was Ireland,second was Scotland.

Rather assuming of me to consider you as a British subject Spud. Here in Canada we recognise Northern Ireland as part of the UK or the former Great Britan and not the Republic of Ireland.

Ted

Lone Star Phil · Senior Member

Spud:

Welcome sir!

I've bit of Irish blood coursing my veins an' I'll have wat yur havin'!!

spud76 · Veteran Member

I am 100% British Ted, however I didnt join crowbusters for any religious or political discussions. I sufferfar toomuch of that living in northern ireland. I am however looking for good advice on bagging more crows. atb Spud.

Mainehunt · Guru

spud76 wrote:
I am 100% British Ted, however I didnt join crowbusters for any religious or political discussions. I sufferfar toomuch of that living in northern ireland. I am however looking for good advice on bagging more crows. atb Spud.

Spud,

Are you allowed to use electronic calls there? My success really jumped when I bought my FoxPro Spitfire.

Kev

spud76 · Veteran Member

Electronic calls are illegal in Northern Ireland, unless you are calling crows in to photograph them. I was actually browsing through the crow buster store and thinking of ordering a new mouth call and instructional cd. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Mark · Guru

Hi Spud, First of all welcome to crow busters. Thank you for your kind response about polical and religous issues.. Too many folks on this site drift into useless dicussions about politics and other "off topic" crap. Best of luck with "crow busting." Pictures are very welome!!

Troy Seal · Senior Member

Hello frorn the south east USA. My favorite christian artist is from northern Ireland, Robin Mark. He put out an album a few years ago called revival in belfast. Great album! I saw him live a few years ago in Knoxville Tennseess and got to meet him, really nice guy. You have pheasants in Ireland dont you? Ever hunt them? Anyway good to have you here.

falconer · Newbie

Hi Spud, I'm new here myself. Seems like a good practical bunch. I'm trying to train my redtailed hawk to take crows. Working out the legal issues still as they are mostly in parks in small towns here.
I like your picture too. I would have to drive 160 mi. to get a properly poured Guiness.

Good luck and welcome.

Minnesota John · Senior Member

falconer wrote:
Hi Spud, I'm new here myself. Seems like a good practical bunch. I'm trying to train my redtailed hawk to take crows. Working out the legal issues still as they are mostly in parks in small towns here.
I like your picture too. I would have to drive 160 mi. to get a properly poured Guiness.

Good luck and welcome.

That is a tall order for a redtail. I have a falconer license and have whacked some crows with hawks. Goshawk is the best, then Harris hawk, then falcon of any sort. Lots of fun let me know if you get one.

John

spud76 · Veteran Member

TROY SEAL, we do have pheasents over here in NI. I was out on a rough shoot Saturday before last where I bagged 5. I will post pics as soon as I suss it out. I also had a couple of shots at Wood**** and Snipe however didnt hit any as they are in a different league to pheasents.

Redditch · Guru

Hi Spud,
howdy from a crow shooter from Coleraine area

Yup, lots of crows here, in fact, lots more crows than woodpigeons

Skip · Guru

Redditch: Now you have gone and mentioned an amazing bird.. the woodpigeon. I had the chance to shoot "woodies" back in 2006 and will never forget the experience. A mixture of woodies going to feed and to roost with crows and jackdaws inbetween... well, it just does not get better than that!

What is your experience with woodpigeons, if I can ask?

skip

jonthepain · Guru

sooo... you didn't skip the woodies?

Redditch · Guru

Hi Skip, I used to shoot lots of woodies, but since moving here to Northern Ireland, most pigeons I shoot are feral (And dumb as a block of wood), but I doo manage the occassional woodies, and sometimes will get 5-6 of them amongst the crows (Carrion, Grey, Hooded,and Jackdaws), and ferals. I even breasted four the other night, and served them the family in a red wine sauce, fryed (30 seconds a side) with onions and garlic), served with roast potatoes, mixed vegatables, and of course, the red wine sauce

Before leaving to travel the world (Back in the 70's), I used to shoot 500 to a 1,000 on a good day, and in those days we didn't have nice things like the Kick Off recoil system you get with the Beretta's nowadays, so black and blue shoulders were the order of the day !!
Here, as stated, it's mostly different corvids, crows, ravens, magpies, jays etc., and not much pigeon, although come harvest they will suddenly appear from nowhere again LOL. Southern ireland and the Eastern part of Northern Ireland tend to have more pigeons.

-- Edited by Redditch on Tuesday 8th of May 2012 04:33:54 PM

spud76 · Veteran Member

Hi Redditch. Haven't posted here in a while. We haven't had any good bags for ages. Looking forward for the arrival of the young crows to beef the bags up a bit. The crows around here are smart to my friends and I. New tactics required.

Redditch · Guru

Hi Spud, I was out this morning and set up by 04:30, but bags were small, and a mixture of feral, woody, grey, jackdaw, and carrion. Rain finally stopped play at 11:30

I'll be out again tomorrow, but the crows now seem to have switched to grubs and insects to feed their young, so they don't stay on any one field at the moment. Never mind, we still get a few, and the pigeons help fill the bag too, so even if the bags aren't big, at least I get a nice day out. A few weeks back we were getting bags of 70 plus on a day, and now it's often below 20

Still, soon harvest will be with us, and then it will be back to business

NGillespie10 · Senior Member

Hey Spud, welcome to the forums! Gotta say this is the best forum to learn about killing some crows. Also a good bunch for talking just about anything hunting/fishing related. Always enjoy having more people from other countries to teach us a little about how and what they hunt. Post some pics and let us know what you like to hunt.

motiondecoy · Guru

Erwin Go Bragh!!!!