I seen a video on you-tube that had the two decoys spinning around with three guy's set up spread out in a hedgerow. It seamed to draw the crows in. If I see it again I'll post it on here. I'm sure there would be some available through the decoy mail order places. I also seen decoys on what looked like a eighteen foot fiber-glass fish pole, I have one that is telescopic that we used with a plastic grocery bag taped to it to scare up my roller pigeons when they landed on the neighbors garage. I'll have to dig it out and see if it will hold a decoy. Pat
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Yeah thanks man I just checked it out, thats what I was looking for. Now if anybody has a review of the assault crow I'd be happy to hear it.
I have a few of the assault crows, and they work just like they are advertised to.............I think they work really well as far as getting wary crows to fully commit to the setup too....
Here's a view of a decoy machine, and a close up of the motor and how its mounted. Its just a car windscreen wiper motor, running off a 12volt battery. Usually about 17-20 ah will keep it going for about 8-10 hours, and you can fit a speed controller too. Less speed means longer battery life.
They are very easy to make with a welder, a drill, some bolts, electric cable, and some skill at bending metal. Most of what you need is just square tubing, and a bit of box section to mount the motor in, plus some flat strip, quite thick and about 3/4" wide
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T8_AmBWHRn8
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ok thanks for the help everyone, hopefully I can get one of those decoys built before the seasons over and I plan on buying an assault crow to try out now. Where would be the cheapest place to come across 6-8' of that 1/4" steel rod they say to use?
Most of use just use plastic decoys, then cut slots in the sides and back for some thin neoprene or plastic wings and tail. Then run a rod through the slot (or a strip of flat metal) to keep the wings straight, as it hits the wind the wings will rise, and as it goes back around the will drop not the rod and keep level. No rod, and the wings will drop down to far and when hitting the wind will be pushed down instead
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ok thanks for the help everyone, hopefully I can get one of those decoys built before the seasons over and I plan on buying an assault crow to try out now. Where would be the cheapest place to come across 6-8' of that 1/4" steel rod they say to use?
I just bought it at the local hardware store.........it was around 5 dollars for a 6 foot long piece
My buddy and I each had one of the triple-threat triple crow decoys. I bought mine a year ago. It works great except it would not run this morning at 6 degrees even with new batteries. Just too cold.
Kev
Do you generally use the triple-threat with feeding type relaxed setups? and I watched a few videos on them, but do they produce enough motion for bringing in shy crows?
I use a triple play decoy set too (one set of crow, one set of doves) mixed n with my pigeon and crow decoys. They give a little movement to make the crows more relaxed about coming in, but won't bring crows from a distance, you need floaters and a whirly for that
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Do you generally use the triple-threat with feeding type relaxed setups? and I watched a few videos on them, but do they produce enough motion for bringing in shy crows?
Every time that I crow hunt< i use the dying crow sound on my Foxpro. I have about a dozen decoys on ground, a couple in the trees and my triple play. Often times I use the decoys with no sound at all.
I find the more decoys you use, the more chance you have of wary crows committing to land. And here in the UK crows are very wary as they are shot every day of the week (except Sundays in NI, as bird shooting isn't allowed on Sundays in NI, but is in Scotland, England, and Wales). They know what a decoy pattern is, and will often leave small decoy patterns and fly straight past, but put a really big pattern out (30 plus crows, and the same in pigeon, plus a magpie, maybe two) and they will be more confident that its safe. Wish we were allowed electronic callers for birds here, but we aren't, and can only use them for ground vermin and foxes.
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We can hunt ground vermin on Sundays, but no game, and no birds or waterfowl So rabbits and foxes only on Sundays lol
My state is old fashioned when it comes to hunting laws. Fox are considered fur bearers and rabbits are small game animals. Interesting on how each place has different considerations.
We can hunt ground vermin on Sundays, but no game, and no birds or waterfowl So rabbits and foxes only on Sundays lol
My state is old fashioned when it comes to hunting laws. Fox are considered fur bearers and rabbits are small game animals. Interesting on how each place has different considerations.
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Yep, rest of the UK can shoot birds and vermin and waterfowl n a Sunday (but no game) and yet the rest of the UK can't shoot on Christmas Day, but we can so long it doesn't fall on a Sunday lol
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Here's a view of a decoy machine, and a close up of the motor and how its mounted. Its just a car windscreen wiper motor, running off a 12volt battery. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I don't think many people are going to carry someting like that out to many times crow hunting, Loading, unloading and carring it out to where it needs to be set up would be a pain the the a$$. jmo
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Yeah I got to thinking about it and as much stuff as I carry now I am already about overloaded haha. I did rig me up a plate that sits on top of 6' rod that you can wire a dead crow with its wings spread out to. Don't know if it will work or not but I might try it out on a stand tomorow morning.
We carry all the kit. Drive as near as we can, and then either walk a few times (often 5-7 times back and forth) or use a wheelbarrow or special decoy barrow (fishing barrows are also good) But the difference is, we tend to set up for a whole day. It usually takes 30-40 minutes to set everything up, so we get there 90 mins before first light to start setting up and be ready for the first flights. Packing it all in again usually takes about an hour though. But that's including the 5-7 times of walking. Its well worth it in our sort of shooting, as all out corvids are very wary due to being shot at 6 days the week, 52 weeks the year.
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