Crow Busters Forum

SHANEDOG · Guru

CROW PROBLEMS?

Mainehunt · Guru

Did you watch the video? The close up of a "crow's" head is not a crow's head.

Kev

chip · Guru

Shows how "Ignurnt" some people are disbelief I can't keep guy's from shooting my roost's and running my birds off. These people can't get rid of em. I can hook this town up with some idiots that will take care of the problem in one night. furious

Buckshot1822 · Senior Member

They have this problem in every fairly large city in PA, but you have a really hard time getting anywhere close enough to hunt them to do any good.........................I know around state college, they have a huge problem with crows roosting on the PSU campus......I think somewhere around 10-12k last time they estimated...........but there is nowhere to hunt them really withing like 5 miles any way, and there is enough agriculture withing that 5 mile radius to keep 95% if those crows in there......So, they never get hunted.....

Shotgunner · Member

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Chip said:
Shows how "Ignurnt" some people are I can't keep guy's from shooting my roost's and running my birds off. These people can't get rid of em. I can hook this town up with some idiots that will take care of the problem in one night.
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Speaking of idiots that would get rid of them in one night....... :) The blackbird roost I used to have the pleasure of living beside - and shooting a flyway going into anytime I wanted - well, the hog farmer who owned the feed lot where the birds roosted didnt' like it nearly so much as I did. He decided one day that he was going to go in there one night and shoot them out. He had two sons about my age (late 20's at the time) who loved to shoot and the 2 of them had a case or so of shells. One of the sons told me about it and I said that I hated to hear about them ruining the roost, BUT if they were going to do it, I'd sure like to get in on it. I brought my Father along and the 5 of us went in there about an hour after dark. The place was about 10 acres, full of hogs and my big dog running wild chasing hogs, getting chased, birds sqwawking, falling everywhere. It was unlike anything I've ever done. I carried 450 shells in a big box in the bed of the truck and shot every one of them. I started out aiming but later switched to just holding the gun down to my side and pumping the forearm as I unloades magazine after magazine into the loudest "bird sounds" I could detect up above me. They were raining down all over. It was nowhere near as fun as standing in my favorite fencerow shooting individual birds, but it was something to experience one time in your life. The next evening, no birds returned.........the dependable old roost of severaly years was gone. Dead and wounded birds were everywhere. Me and the other two young guys were out shooting wounded birds. It was sort of sad to see all the pass shooting gone to be honest.

-- Edited by Shotgunner on Thursday 16th of February 2012 03:06:07 PM