10gacrowshooter and I had our second best one day team total today as crows have arrived in our area in force. We hunted from legal shooting time until 11AM with our Parker 10ga double guns. At that point our supply of short ten ammo was exhausted and we went back to our trucks to switch over to a pair of small bore double guns (12ga) and more ammo. We wrapped up the day around 3:15 (gotta get home in time for the Patriots game).
The Hide.
The field of death
-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Sunday 21st of October 2012 09:15:50 PM
It's always good to rotate your ammunition supplies when the opportunity presents itself!!
The TCP sortied out Friday in full force (Texas Matt, Gadget Bob and I) and put 28 crows out of commission in short order. Crows still haven't arrived in Texas in numbers. We did completely eliminate a number of flights in the process and avoided educating survivors.
NHCS: How long does it take to construct a blind like that? Did you bring some sort of frame on which to tie branches? Nice shootin'
Initially it took about 1o to 15 minutes to build that blind as it was selcted for it's natural cover. We augmented it with limbs, often cedar limbs. Trimming the natural shrubbery also allows the sun to get in over a few years the bushes fill out so the blind gets better and better over time through normal growth and as a growing brush pile.
Thanks, 91 is a near record day in our neck of the woods.
Another "A-ha" moment. You're building what I would describe as your own "one-point hollow hedgerow section." Slick! I need to talk to a couple of my farmer friends about letting me try that trick.
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