Crow Busters Forum

alex1381 · Newbie

Rookie, needs help

jonthepain · Guru

870 should work fine.

maybe if you go out there whenever you see them and blast away, they will get the idea and go after somebody else's pecans.

hopefully not mine.

alex1381 · Newbie

Thanks for the thought. That should read two hundred pecan trees. That's a lot of money if I can bring them in.

BUZZ · Senior Member

Don't know if this is a option for you....but.....a friend of mine up here in PA raises a lot of sweet corn. He has trouble with Crows in the Corn. He has a ....(for lack of better word)...a propane cannon. He sets it out in the field and it will randomly fire a loud "boom" to scare the birds off. I believe it runs off a tank simaler to gas grill, and seems to work well for him.

M12Shooter · Guru

BUZZ wrote:
Don't know if this is a option for you....but.....a friend of mine up here in PA raises a lot of sweet corn. He has trouble with Crows in the Corn. He has a ....(for lack of better word)...a propane cannon. He sets it out in the field and it will randomly fire a loud "boom" to scare the birds off. I believe it runs off a tank simaler to gas grill, and seems to work well for him.

Those are called propane "bangers" up here in the wheat belt of Western Canada. The Provincial Governments distribute them to grain farmers that have crop depredation issues with waterfowl and cranes during fall harvest. Game Wardens that specialize in landowner wildlife problems set them up and maintain them. Ducks and geese do get used to the racket and ignore them after a while. I'm talking here about concentrations of waterfowl so large that they can blot out the sun in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada.

Ted

Lone Star Phil · Senior Member

Alex:

I don't know what to tell you. For one thing, if you have only two pecan trees, how do you have them "all in rows"?!?! Two pecan trees can only constitute one row in Texas.

If you're prepared to spend $800 for an electronic caller, $150 for flocked decoys and at least $150 for leafy gear camouflage, you might stand a chance at terminating a significant number of the indigenous crows that are robbing your nut crop, but keep your economics in the front of the argument, and, understand, you'll still have crows feeding on your pecans, just less of them than before. Probably because you can't be there every day.

With 870 in hand, a pocket full of cartridges, some economical use of camouflage clothing and a mouth call may get you the revenge you seek, at an affordable cost.

I've got twelve natives on my residential property and have only shot a couple of crows with my air rifle only because they were gathered in my front yard dissing me on a day that they shouldn't have. They can eat all my pecans; I dont' care; what I don't tolerate is their predation on song bird fledglings.

Elkhunter · Senior Member

Alex,

Where are you located?

jonthepain · Guru

BUZZ wrote:
...a propane cannon. He sets it out in the field and it will randomly fire a loud "boom" to scare the birds off. I believe it runs off a tank simaler to gas grill, and seems to work well for him.

I've heard that those work. Hopefully long enough to bring in the harvest.

200 trees is a lot of pecans!

NGillespie10 · Senior Member

you could always see if anybody here lives close to you and would want to spend some time in those trees for you. They may even have you help if you're interested, and that way you wouldn't need anything except personal camo and your gun.