Crow Busters Forum

Hi Kev,

Thanks for the heads up...  I will check that out.

Regards,

I just checked to set the DVR, and that is definitely not what I have on the Sportman channel tomorrow at 830pm, I have Reel Time something.......

Mainehunt wrote:

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SORRY GUYS!!! it's on Sunday at 8:30pm not Saturday. Repeats at 11:30.

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Yep, I just ran the search, and figured that out, haha

My Crow hunting buddy was telling me about it......should be interesting to watch.

thx Kev

I have Dish Network. My dad has Direct TV. He bought the Sportsmen channel for $2.99 a month. I called them for him, they activated the channel while I was on the phone with their operator.

Gadget Bob wrote:

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Hi Kev,

Watching the show now, from a U-Verse recording earlier this evening...  They are cooking some up as I write this post.  Didn't learn anything about hunting them, but did pick up a term term - "Crow Go Puff" to describe a solid short range hit!

Regards,

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I recorded it last night, but haven't watched it yet.

Hahahahaa, that's a good one! 

When out hunting with my buddy Josh last year, I shot the wing off of a crow that was right above us. The crow started spinning with his one good wing held out straight. As he's falling, Josh yells out loud, in his best Howard Cosell accent, "And DOWN GOES FRAZIER!!!"  Needless to say, that phrase gets repeated often whenever a crow comes spinning to the ground.

Couple years ago I caught a hunting show that was dedicated to crow shooting. It was a production from a French language channel in Quebec, Canada with English sub-titles. It featured a spring crow shoot with snow on the ground. I didn't much agree with most of what they were saying about crows and crow hunting but it was entertaining. Also featured was a segment on cooking crow. Looked good but I think I would pass on that.

Truthfully I cringe every time crow shooting hits the spotlight. Every other duffer up here is running around with a Foxpro these days and coyote hunting has been ruined as a result. I could only imagine what would happen if the mainstream realized just how easy it is up here to shoot crows with such a unit. Just my personal feelings and that's all!

Ted

-- Edited by M12Shooter on Tuesday 12th of February 2013 08:36:33 PM

I cooked and ate crow once. It tasted very much like Partridge to me. (Ruffed grouse)

It's just the idea of what the crow eats that bothers me a little. However, if you consider what a wild turkey eats, a lot like what a crow eats.

Mike27 wrote:

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Kev,
I've never seen a turkey eating a rotting carcass.

I don't think I'll be trying crow any time soon.

Mike

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 2 years ago I passed 6 turkeys along the road. They were all frantically pecking away at a dead porcupine. I turned around and drove back to check it out, (much to my wife's horror) and the carcass was swarming with maggots. I continued driving to town. On the way home I stopped again. The turkeys were still there and they ran off into the woods as I pulled up. All of the maggots were gone as well as most of the meat.

Every turkey that I have ever shot stinks. Most are covered in ticks and other parasites. The crows I shoot do not stink except the ones on the dairy farms and they just smell like cow manure. The turkeys at the dairy farm eat the undigested grain out of the cow crap just like the crows do.

Mike27 wrote:

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damn, you just ruined my turkey hunt in April.

Mike

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 Hahahahaa, I wouldn't let it bother you. Domestic chickens are some of the most disgusting critters out there in my opinion. Once that one of them starts to bleed, the rest will kill it and eat them. Total cannibalism.  How many people eat chickens everyday?

Kev,

Now I have to change dinner plans too.

Mike

M12Shooter wrote:

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Truthfully I cringe every time crow shooting hits the spotlight. Every other duffer up here is running around with a Foxpro these days and coyote hunting has been ruined as a result. I could only imagine what would happen if the mainstream realized just how easy it is up here to shoot crows with such a unit. Just my personal feelings and that's all!

Ted

-- Edited by M12Shooter on Tuesday 12th of February 2013 08:36:33 PM

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Call me selfish...but I agree.

 

BH

There's a bunch of stuff out there that wouldn't be eaten if you knew what it ate or how it was raised.
Tilapia fish are raised in the ponds that they raised bass in, all they get to eat is the wate from the bass. Recycled undigested fecal waste
Crab, a bottom feeder that eats mostly dead rotted flesh of other animals & fish. I have no problem eatting Crab Legs.
Chicken, you'd be surprised what goes into commercial chicken feed, and what they eat when they do get to run outside. I eat chicken a couple of times a week.
Bacon, Pork, Another animal that has lots of tasty parts. If you knew what they were fed you'd change your mind on putting any of it in your mouth. Some operations put young pigs behind market size pige that consume the older pigs waste,the switch the over on straight grain to finnish them off.
I've seen big beef stock yards that put one pig behind two cows to feed off of the cow waste, then grain feed the pigs just before butchering time.
I eat pork products allof the time.
There are others but you get the point.
I worked with a guy who traveled to Switzerland about fifteen years ago with his wife. They stopped at a high end resturaunt for dinner out in the outskirts of town. After dinner he used the restroom which was located on a bumb-out on the rear of the building, He said he lifted the toilet seat and it was a straight shot down about a twenty foot drop. After he relieved himself he went to close the lid and there were about half a dozen pigs down there going to town on his waste. I asked him what they had for dinner at that resturaunt? His answer was "Tasty Pork Chops" so there you go. What you don't know won't hurt you I guess.
People eat Snakes, Snails, Dog, Cat, all kinds of nasty things. For the most part I'll stick with the traditional American food.

Hi Honk,

You are quite right, if you have to much pressure on the birds, "nobody gets nothin" .

Bob A.

Crows, hogs, chickens, quail, cattle, fish, and the stuff they eat is the same stuff that human bodies are constructed of. Star stuff. We are all the same stuff, including the earth itself. The atoms and molecules are just arranged in a different order for each creature.

But that don't make literally eating crow more palatable. Even though, every once in a while, we all have to eat a little crow!

Kencrow

think i'll have broccoli for dinner

M12Shooter wrote:

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Couple years ago I caught a hunting show that was dedicated to crow shooting. It was a production from a French language channel in Quebec, Canada with English sub-titles. It featured a spring crow shoot with snow on the ground. I didn't much agree with most of what they were saying about crows and crow hunting but it was entertaining. Also featured was a segment on cooking crow. Looked good but I think I would pass on that.

Truthfully I cringe every time crow shooting hits the spotlight. Every other duffer up here is running around with a Foxpro these days and coyote hunting has been ruined as a result. I could only imagine what would happen if the mainstream realized just how easy it is up here to shoot crows with such a unit. Just my personal feelings and that's all!

Ted

-- Edited by M12Shooter on Tuesday 12th of February 2013 08:36:33 PM

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Tis' no good I tell you........every Joe Schmo around here is trying their hand at crow hunting lately, and for the most part all they do is constantly shoot the birds up, and educate a lot of them..........It got bad enough at the end of last season that no matter where you went, if you turned an e-call on all the crows clammed up immediately.......you could however still call them with a hand call......

 

We don't usually have a huge crow population anyways, and that only makes it that much harder to hunt them, and kill them in any kind of numbers....

I am another one who hunts with Jerry Tomlin.  His video, published several years ago, shows how to prepare crow in the croc pot.  I didn't get to see the TV program, but if he talked about or showed cooking crows, I'm a little suprised.  Since the West Nile Virus stories started circulating, Jerry has been backing off the eating part.

He may have slowed down on eating them himself, but this past November we saved about 75 crows on one hunt for a local game dinner sponsored by a volunteer fire department.  They cook them up, then label them "Black Wing Dove" and the people attending apparently go crazy for them!     Not me .  I'll give them to the hogs or coyotes.

I.S.

PIECE of crow, not LICE of crow. Sorry