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Mark · Guru

Your most memorable or funny shot?

Rook-ie · Senior Member

RE: Your most memorable or fiunny shot?

Bob · Guru

RE: Your most memorable or funny shot?

motiondecoy · Guru

The bird got in the last word BOB! I swear i never heard of anything like that before!

My weirdest shots only occurred at this one location; I'd shoot this crow and it would lock its' wings and glide across the field as if nothing happened fly right into this tree halfway up and drop like a rock-right in the center of the trunk! I never understood-why ONLY this particular area? I've had a few like that few and far between but...but ONLY in this one location.

Mark · Guru

Maybe, just maybe, those crows thought that tree is "mecca." did any of the females have on a burka?

-- Edited by Mark on Wednesday 29th of January 2014 06:07:03 PM

Bob · Guru

Hi Tom,

I was on a hunt with Jerry Byroade 6 or 7 years back when I killed a pair, just as I killed bird number two (on a double) I got smacked in the head by bird number one! The dead crow hit the bill of my ball cap.

Bob A.

Mark · Guru

This one is not crow related, but funny: Long before 911 and all the security issues, I used to go out on Sunday mornings (early) and do some pest control ( crows pigeons, squirrels) One particular place that had good number of piegons was located right in the city limits at an old feed and seed store. The piegeons would sit along the edge of the 3 story grain bin. A neighbor "hood" backs up to the store property, only seprated with a narrow single lane, one way street. People from the neighbor "hood" would walk to and from a convience store located just ~100 yards away getting "supplies." One morning I backed into my usual parking space and looked for foot traffic. I quicly pulled out my airrifle and put the cross hairs on one of the many piegeons. I looked again for foot traffic then back to the scope and squezzed off a pellet. Plop, I hit the piegeon in the chest. The piegeon took flight straight down the one way street. Much to my surprise I saw a guy walking back from the store with a bag of ice in one hand and a cell phone up to his ear. The pigeon was headed straight torward him.. I jerked the rifle inside the truck and all of a sudden the guy noticed the pigeon headed straight toward him..The guy jerked up the bag of ice to protect himself and hit the deck.. When the bag of ice hit top dead center the bag busted and ice flew out everywhere. The guy was able to duck out of the way and the dead piegeon crashed on the street just behind him.. He looked back at the pigeon and then yelled out some obscenities and told the person on the other end of the phone what just happend... He looked over a notcied me sitting in my truck and I just looked away and started my truck and drove off.. The police never showed up at my house..True story.. I still laugh everytime I think about what happen that morning.

motiondecoy · Guru

Hi Bob;

You got my memory jogged; my partner and i in better days would be shooting and as we know they will pop up anywhere. Anyways he shot a crow and It about hit me or it did-I don't remember. Anyways I said:"I'll get even with you for that!" True to form a crow appeared over him and down it came like a bomb only thing being it hit him dead square in the back and it HURT! Now the crow wasn't that high up but enough so...we did that to one another on occasion but I was only joking- I sure don't want dead crows dropping like bombs out of the skies possibly injuring my crow shooting partners. When I see one possibly going to nail me I shift aside.

But anyways he did something to this day I cannot believe. A high flying crow came over and he had what we called "big gun loads" ...I am not sure of the size shot and other details as i forget anyways he said :"Watch this!" He shot for the briefest of seconds nothing happened then my jaw dropped. that stinking crow dropped like a bomb catching itself about tree top level then glided into the trees somewhere but it looked about -well-a thousand feet up!!! I asked him:"How far did you lead him? He replied:"About ten feet!"

M12Shooter · Guru

Bob wrote:
Hi Tom,

I was on a hunt with Jerry Byroade 6 or 7 years back when I killed a pair, just as I killed bird number two (on a double) I got smacked in the head by bird number one! The dead crow hit the bill of my ball cap.

Bob A.

Did that to my dad when I was young. Hit him square between the shoulder blades with a hen mallard. He turned around and yelled every profanity at me he could think of...like I had done it intentionally evileye . Guess it scared the daylights out of him. Old man kinda felt dumb after and apologized. biggrin

Ted

motiondecoy · Guru

that happened to me and a partner once-when it came down like a bomb making a ton of racket as it was up so high crashing through the trees

motiondecoy · Guru

The "funniest" crow shot I ever saw I didn't shoot it but it was in one of these pics some where on the bulletin board here with a huge hole right in the center-man now that was WEIRD (looked like a hotchkiss cannon (late 1800s' post civil war cannon) round went right through it! and when i realized it was a REAL crow and not a decoy is when I started to laugh. Who done it(?) One Bob A.!!!!!

Crowslayerking · Veteran Member

Shoot this crow last fall and it was wounded but still flying but not very well it went about 400 yards into a tree. It sat on the limb for a long time as I continued hunt! I thought I would go over on the way out and finish it off! I went around the edge of the corn field and as I got closer it was still there,then I figured out had died in the tree and had forked its neck in the tree limb!

Crowslayerking · Veteran Member

This is the crow 20feet up! Sorry photo upside down

-- Edited by Crowslayerking on Saturday 1st of February 2014 09:46:38 PM

motiondecoy · Guru

Funny! That is one of those crows where the ghost hadn't left yet

motiondecoy · Guru

Around here you get a crow stuck in the tree? well it will NOT be there the following day. Owls are veyr busy and no passing large hawk will overlook that gourmet free of charge and no threat to capture.

Low and Slow · Senior Member

I got a couple, one time hunting in deep snow I dropped one stone dead, dropped like a lawn dart head first into the snow near me, only feet and tail feathers sticking out. During a lull in action I gathered up some dead ones that were too far away and on my way to the blind I grabbed the lawn dart by the feet to pull it out after at least an hour on ice, the thing comes to life and starts screaming like you wouldn't believe, kinda scared me for a second.
the other is the "kamakazi crows" I wrote about this hunt a while back, anyway, I had a good evening hunt going in a new out of town spot, quite a few fallen comrades on the ground, when I get this screaming kamakazi bandit dive bombing in like a rocket from way up there, keeps rocketing closer to the pile of buddies screaming all the way "i'll save you" or whatever, he gets about 20 feet from the ground and I shut him up and he joined the pile. most of you have seen similar dive bombing bandits i'm sure, but what makes this "story worthy" is that he turned out to be the leader of a group of 3, kid you not, shortly there after another one does exact same thing, same exact flight path, same ending. then followed by a third, same flight path and antics. it was hilarious and pretty neat to experience, I wish they would have kept coming like that

motiondecoy · Guru

I once saw a couple of crows a goodly distance away so I stalked it on my belly hands and knees until I got to the stone wall and shot it right on the ground after leaving my blind and set up)about 200 yards away or so!)...I missed its' buddy who flew right at me however. My other trick was to get out from my blind to shoot an otherwise unseen crow sitting above me and this trick was very very effective too!
Yes the ground was dry so i didn't become a walking cow dung factory.It was warm that day too with a generally bluebird sky with some clouds. I finished that day shooting at crows that came to my set up. Keywords: shooting at. I wasn't a great shot back then in the late 70s. But if one landed in a tree within range it often got bagged!

Elkhunter · Senior Member

I also had a buddy shoot one that came down and knocked me off of my chair.

And I had one do the circle and climb and climb and climb. It was over a huge field and the wind was blowing. The bird was still climbing the last time we could see it.

crazy 4 crows · Veteran Member

had a single come to our set up 2 yrs ago, nephew and i both shot and he did the whirly bird spiral down to about 5' off the ground and took of flying away from us and i finished him with a 60 plus yard shot, my best shot to date, we got a good laugh out of that one