Been slow on the forum, would like to see some Pic's of some of your best hunts, numbers don't matter. I know some areas are tough huntin. Older pics would be great and a short story with it if you don't mind sharing them. Hope y'all don't mind need some crow entertainment till we get started down here.
Mark, your picture looks like Hillary Clinton! If the beak had been about ten feet longer, it would look like BaracK Obama, (Pinocchio Nose) for all the lies he has told.
If I told a story for every photo I would be pecking away all night.
In the first set of photos you see me covered in snow, that was the day I shot my 125,000th crow back in 2008. In the second set of photos you see me and Boyd Robeson on a goose hunt (he is dressed in a blue jacket) in South America. Boyd and I hunted crows for many years together, had some great times with old Boyd. He passed away on December 31st of 2000 he was 74 years old.
You can also see (in the second set) Gadget Bob and Texas Matt in the crow museum at my house.
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The Finger Lakes region is very nice. You sure get your share of snow in that part of NY State. Jerry Byroad & I hunted there and in Maryland when I went back to visit a number of years ago.
I can see part of the shot string where it hit the snow in one of your photos.
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Butch - It does get warmer here. Nice summer, although most will complain that it was too wet or too hot, but they complain all winter, too. They need to move. I might try to find some warmer weather spots beginning Sept 1, but most hunters don't want me disturbing the deer for archery Oct. 1.
Bob - You said that you've been up this way. People think that NY is NY City, but it's pretty rural here. The shot in the snow was necessary to dispatch with a hopper. Gotta be careful anymore since my trigger finger frostbite incident last winter.
In Upstate New York the people are pretty friendly, it was like I never left Kansas when talking with the land owners. The city is a whole different world (Manhatten Island, Bronx, Queens, Statin Island and Brooklyn) I would not live there if they bought my house for me and paid the taxes on it for the rest of my life.
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Due to the lack of cover when things were hot around here(in November) I considered the somewhat crazy idea of dressing up as a great horned owl. In your case that idea might not be that far fetched running around as a giant crow. I bet they'd see you a lot further off. that idea might not be at all that crazy but could prove to be innovative!
Look at it this way, have you seen where they use giant goose decoys as a blind? It worked very very well indeed!
You just reminded me of a story from back in the 1980's. If you remember the hedge row flyway shoot in The Art of Crow Hunting, there was another flyway about 2 1/2 miles west of there where I was setup on a different day years before the film footage you just saw. I had a permanent blind in a hedgerow made out of tumble weeds. Anyway I am just standing up in my tumble weed blind waiting for the next group of crows to filter through my area when I spot two guys sneaking up on my position. One had a rifle at port arms and the other was creeping ever so slowly towards my blind. The e-caller was not running, just silence as I was curious what these guys were up too!
When they both got with in 20 feet or so from my blind I stood up and they about jumped out of there skin. I knew the one guy, he owned the ground. Come to find out the two of them thought my tumble weed blind was a gigantic birds nest like a Condor or Rodan like in the old Jap movies. That is why they approached so cautiously they thought they might need a bigger gun! Your story about dressing up as a giant horned owl reminded me of that experience from years back. If you were with me dressed like you just described we both would have been shot or the two of them would have had to go to therapy for the rest of there lives!
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