Crow Busters Forum

That is a great day Skip! Congrats or the 3 digit shoot. It sure is nice to break a hundred. Good luck with the brown and white ones. Would love to see pics of them laying across the Maxus.

Outstanding Skip!!  Great post!!

Great job. So, when you going back? LOL

Bravo Skip! 108 KIA's with only 3 stops hardly qualifies as a run & gun technique. Just think of the fuel savings if R&G was always so productive. Best of luck finding those "odd ball" crows

 

Ted

Darn fine day you had Skip!! Congratulations on a f couple fine shoots!! Too bad those oddballs didn't show up tho!! I've sen 1 white crow here. It was in the summer when they are out of season & I was groundhog hunting. Sure wanted to take it out but from past experiences with the 204 on crows it woulda been a total disaster!! LOL

Merry CHRISTmas Skip!!!!!!!!!!

great days crow busting lust back in from zeroing in my new 22 250 browning ss rifle good fun getting back to crow busting on wednesday back here in a cold and snow covered northern ireland

Doug: It is a departure from norm for me to use a decoy or decoys... but I have started using two...if the terrain allows. One is the Assault crow..and the other a feathered decoy crow...  very realistic and fools live crows! Since most of my run and gun stands are IN woods, there is usually scant space to set up any decoy, but when there is... I use these two. I can carry both with gun/ammo in one trip from the vehicle.

Chip: I am headed back out for round 2.... in my attempt to nail the non-black crows. I wanted to give the bunch some time to regroup but like you, this has been on my mind daily!

Glen: I could not have brought myself to shoot either crow in question here, with a rifle..must less a .22/250 or .204. It would have ruined a fine trophy as you well know. As the expression goes..."all the King's men could not have put this crow back together". I'll ether get them with small shot...or they survive.

M12: You are quite right...3 stands in one day does not a run and gunner make!! BUT.. whatever it was, I would like a few 100 more such days!!

Elkhunter, I sure plan on hitting that place again, the haunt of the white crow.. this Friday. Rest assured 8fisherman, should I luck up and drop one of the sought after targets, pictures of the bird and Max...will be posted along with my smile ...that might stretch the bulletin board screen..

And thanks to the rest of you guys and your kind remarks...  5 more days to go before re-engagement.

Skip

 

-- Edited by Skip on Monday 19th of December 2011 12:25:31 AM

 I am not sure at all... that one could just "wound" a fragile bird like a crow....with one of those high velocity .22's... unless you used FMJ ammo.

Bird shot... or nothing!  I am putting on my face paint as we speak... 

 

skip

Two weeks ago today, I put the undertaker on 108 all black crows while hoping to see the "great white whale...er crow"... but failed. He did not show. I returned this morning, high hopes in place, Maxus at-the-ready.. for my return sortie.

 Basic Crow 101 instructs one does not return to the exact same place with hopes all the birds have forgotten the a-- whipping put on them a mere 14 days earlier. They remember well..too well. I know that. BUT, the white crow is a resident of this 750 acre farm.. so I could not journey too far away. Rational thought does not always prevail and I did the dumb and set up in my footprints from 2 weeks ago and tweeted. I wanted the white crow!

Somehow...a couple of dozen birds responded immediately. I waited as long as I could to checkout their color... all the while my fire control system was yelling " shoot dummy" ( no bonafide crow hunter can stand birds overhead and in range for very long..think seconds ) so I caved (what relief)...and birds started falling. By the way, aren't falling crows are one of the great sights in nature!! Birds continued for about an hour...TBC was 22. No white or brown bird down. I left for same stand #2. So far, not so dumb!

Using only a very realistic "feathered" decoy ( perched on a low limb ) I blew my Gibson again. Response was same as above...birds rolled in ( I was amazed, I really was...given how many were killed just 2 weeks ago..they had to be virgin birds ) and I downed 18. I left for home. White and brown crows are still at large much to my great chagrin. I will try again..as Capt. Ahab did with with the white whale..

It is also amazing to us as we retrace our steps how many "Dumb" crows will come it after a short rest. We shot one place a few weeks back and killed 91. We waited 6 days to shoot the same fields and moved the blind 3/4 of a mile Northwest and killed another 131. We knew the first day the wind was bad and a lot of birds didn't hear us or more likely were not willing to buck the wind to get to the fight. The persistence to return paid off for us. I hope your persistence pays off also. One thing on your side is the Great White and the Great Brown are both still dumb. Lets hope their "education" leads them to a PhD in taxidermy.

Great game plan Skip!! Wipe out all the black crows 1st. Then the other 2 will have to stop by to see what the heck happened to them!! Then all you have to do is double up, pick, & head for the taxidermist!! What a masterful plan you have contrived for Brer white & Brer brown crow!!!!!!