Crow Busters Forum

Educated birds has been the norm here in AR for years.

Bob

To many guys hunt in a particular county for crows and nobody gets nothing!

Low and Slow wrote:

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yep, I agree you should move

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Honk, Low & Slow wants him to move so there is less competition in the area! LOL !

Stay in MN.. surely your not going to let the crows win.. you can out smart them.. 

maggie wrote:

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From your responses, it sounds like the crows have won. I can't afford to leave Minnesota and I realize that electronic callers are severely flawed. (Crows hear a crow/owl fight, but there are no crows in the air.) 

However, I am persistent. There must be a solution. 

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As those far wiser than I in the arts of crow shooting say, "The crows are winning." However, that's only because no one will ever kill them all off; or even 10% of them because they are smarter than the oft-lamented (by the "Watermelons" & tree-huggers) passenger pigeon.

Even with educated small "family" groups using run and gun as we have here in SW MI, there are enough techniques found on this website (and others I imagine, though I tend to stick here because the humor and photos are better), to put a hurt on enough crows to keep it interesting, to say the least.

Go get em'!!!

Craig

Way too many out there with e-callers these days. Nobody hunts crows in my region but I notice spring shooting on the crowd to be challenging. My feelings are that the crows have been hunted hard all winter in the Midwest. When they come North they carry college degrees in hunter avoidance.

Same stands true with preditor hunting such animals as fox and coyotes. Tough to call them up here anymore unless your a couple hours away from any major metro area. Lots of e-callers accompanied by plenty of guys trying to be Les Johnson...

Ted

Maggie:

Hopefully, shooting crows is not an "A" priority.  If it is, move but be prepared to move periodically in response to ever-present hunting pressure.  

Given the hassle, disruption and expense of moving, in my humble opinion, I counsel staying put and resign yourself to longer periods of 'windshield time'.  That's a lesser cost than uprooting your home.  You'll just have to be smarter than the ne'er-do-wells that are ruining your kill zones.   Over time, they will pollute one another's field successes and move on to littering public spaces, committing property crimes and texting in motion picture theaters to their ultimate demise.  

While the local reprobates are busy burning bridges and tripping over their collective necks, you should invest time developing relationships with local landowners with the objective of attaining exclusive crow shooting rights.

Be patient and smart.  Give the scofflaws time to fail, which they will.  Time is on your side.

I also think it is not a good idea to give a kill-count report to a landowner. I generally say things like "I didnt keep track" or "I got my fair share but they won the war."

BH

a really good experienced crow hunter should know how to blow a mouth call and know the different calls and know when and how to use an E-caller....the latter I hardly do these days...I know someone who was going to set up an d the same exact calls in the distance and none came near him but oh how those rivals tried! Too many think shooting crows is like shooting geese, pheasants or ducks...I'd say that 99 9/10% of the Fish and Game departments have no idea as to how they are hunted and this is why we get idiot seasons on them...they don't know any better period! Anyone dumb enough to release non native wild life into the region certainly doesn't!
Here in NH the fischer "cat" a large carnivorous weasel i am told imported from Asia is responsible for most domestic cat disappearances particularly in winter when you leave your cat out all night...!!
The black duck once very populous around here apparently has suffered from this Asian weasels' predatory habits as the black duck actually nests away from water usually in a thicket on the ground...I am sure that didn't help the Black Duck any. Numerous once populous ground nesting or low brush species of birds have been wiped out...such being the white throated sparrow, many other sparrows, and the rufous sided towhee sometimes called the Northern towhee...this weasel can climb trees so you can imagine what happened to the hawk population here too. While never common the various accipiters (bird eating hawks) have been virtually annihilated to endangerment...
What the fischer didn't almost wipe out; the phoney "West Nile Virus"about did( which was created in America i am told to reduce the crow and various species of gull and tern populations on Long Island...it did NOT come from an African Goose from the nile even..absolutely NOT.
I expect some to disagree with that...it is totally expected because our government can do "no" wrong...just ask the late Democrat Senator ted kennedy or anyone like him. You'll get the "whole" truth...just ask..