Greetings, This is my first post and I am novice crow killer. I reside in Maryland,USA and my profession is a professional fishing guide. In the last few years I have rekindled my waterfowl hunting, bowhunting and skeet shooting interests.
I live next to a large farm which has a crow problem and I need to learn some of the finer points of crow killing. He has basically two issues : predation on duck nests around a small pond, and predation on vegatable crops in their sprouting stages.
I have already scouted the area, and noted their preferred flyways and directions of approach. I'm thinking setting up an ambush using two or three shooters, with 12ga shotguns. I have some foam decoys. MacDonalds bag with fries, and a Flextone Mimic HD caller, and some cut-leaf camo clothes.
What else , besides patience and experience do I need ?
First off don't try to shoot any crows, it will ruin you over time and you'll progressively give up waterfowl hunting, bowhunting and skeet shooting to pursue crows. Crow shooting is highly addictive. Now that you have been warned cut leaf camo clothes are no substitute for a good blind, and the blind needs to provide better cover than anything you may have used for waterfowling. Study pictures of blinds in here. As far as the number of shooters, two is company, three is a crowd. Crows are far more likley to spot something wrong or movement than ducks or geese. The more hunters the better the odds the birds will flare. As far as the direction of approach, just like waterfowl keep the wind to your back. Put your decoys in the trees if you can, the higher the better and a little bit off to the side of you blind to take their eyes off you.
Greetings, This is my first post and I am novice crow killer. I reside in Maryland,USA and my profession is a professional fishing guide. In the last few years I have rekindled my waterfowl hunting, bowhunting and skeet shooting interests.
Same interests here.
Welcome to the forum. nhcrowshooter gave some good advice.
Crows will spot you, a poorly constructed blind, the flash of a gun barrel, the shine of your hands or face, poor calling, any movement, bad decoys, and their dead buddies, 20 times easier than any duck or goose.
Redfish; by your name I assume you guide in the salt, how's the striper fishing been ? Waiting for them to migrate up NY way. You get reds as far north as Maryland ? Jerry
Welcome from Mississippi. When I here redfish I instantly think of sight fishing the marsh for red drums. I am guessing that isn't what you think of. What species do you guys call a redfish?
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