Was thinking of a new way to outsmart them. Anyone ever try laying a deer decoy on its side and scatter some dekes like they were feeding off a carcass?
I have a little fawn decoy (Flambeau, methinks) and used to use it quite a bit with so-called fake guy piles. It did work, and I need to break in out in the future.
Over the years, we have used many different decoys and generally with pretty good success. Crows are typically curious and that can be their downfall.
I used a piece of coyote hide this weekend and it worked well with a motion decoy. I had planned on taking some McDonald's ketchup packets with me to simulate blood on the snow, but I forgot them. Instead I cut a dead crow open and used real blood. Looked pretty good.
I have used just a rabbit skin on the ground. I have also used the red chip container from McD's A friend of mine had a coyote carcass in the back of his truck. Froze solid. We set it up. It could stand on its own. And put a dead crow in its mouth. WOW! is all I can say. Did the crows ever react. Mind you once spring comes it will get a bit gamey in the back of a truck. Also that is an extra 40 or so lbs to be carrying around.....
I have used just a rabbit skin on the ground. I have also used the red chip container from McD's A friend of mine had a coyote carcass in the back of his truck. Froze solid. We set it up. It could stand on its own. And put a dead crow in its mouth. WOW! is all I can say. Did the crows ever react. Mind you once spring comes it will get a bit gamey in the back of a truck. Also that is an extra 40 or so lbs to be carrying around.....
A friend of mine has a full-body mount of a coyote. We took it out a week ago and put crow dekes in the surrounding trees. The coyote was in the open with snow on the ground. VERY easy to spot. The crows that flew over it didn't seem to care one way or the other about. We were baffled, figured it was going to work really well. Maybe give it another try.
