Good solo hunt this AM. I took a couple pics for you fellers.
With the cold weather finally starting to release its grip on us northerly states, the crows are on the move northward. I did a good bit of PM scouting yesterday and found the needle in the haystack so to speak....a giant wad of fresh migrators that stopped for a PM feed/roost. This was in one of the areas that I keep an eye on. These birds were not there a few days ago and Im guessing practally none of them will be there the next time I look out that way. I think this hunt falls under the "right place, right time" or "better lucky than good" type of scenario.
I watched the birds feed and knew approx where they roosted. I set up close to where they were feeding which was a ways north of where they spent the night. The distance from the roost was far enough away that I would get the birds strung out in nice small groups and not jumbo wads all at one time.
I had pretty steady shooting from 7:45am to 10am and it really fell off from there and I quit at noon. I shot 170 by 10am and less than 30 more by noon. I shot well, it only took me 10 1/2 boxes of shells to down 198 crows. 75.5% hit ratio, I'll take that anyday. The birds worked nicely. I shot 1oz reloads in mostly size 7.
Well run operation Honkers. Shooting 70 plus percent on spring crows is a fine accomplishment! Likely hunting solo had a bit to do with shooting so well. having them all to yourself is great. Crows are slowly starting to trickle northward here. Only a matter of a few weeks for me
Ted
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The photo that I posted, Jim Lundquist (one of my old crow hunting partners from the 70's to 2000) would have said that blind in the photo is an LPB "low profile blind"
Bob A.
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