got out today for my first try at hand calling crows...first thing i noticed was pulling crows from a distance proved tough....HOWEVER those who flew close were able to be talked into giving up the ghost...sadly my hunting partner did not bring his A game and several crows lived to see another day...but we ended up with an even dozen by 10 am...8 of which fell to my gun....got to admit being able to talk to the crows right up to pulling the trigger was something very unique and a total different feel then hunting over the e-caller....going to give it another try next weekend...
the blood trails look cool till it dries and im standing at the gas station trying to use the window squeegee to clean the blood off the hood
this is the first time ive tried hand calling and really enjoyed talking back and forth to the birds...as opposed to the e-caller screaming at them...
i wish my partner shot better tho...i put at least 8 other birds in front of him that should have hit the dirt...being were in so so area for crows....tough to let the ones that do come in fly away...such is life
-- Edited by BAYMAN718 on Monday 7th of March 2016 12:23:20 AM
the blood trails look cool till it dries and im standing at the gas station trying to use the window squeegee to clean the blood off the hood
this is the first time ive tried hand calling and really enjoyed talking back and forth to the birds...as opposed to the e-caller screaming at them...
i wish my partner shot better tho...i put at least 8 other birds in front of him that should have hit the dirt...being were in so so area for crows....tough to let the ones that do come in fly away...such is life
-- Edited by BAYMAN718 on Monday 7th of March 2016 12:23:20 AM
I downed five on Friday a.m. and wounded one, as he zig-zagged his way off to parts unknown with a droopy wing. Clearly missed at least four others. I'm still learning how to properly use a scattergun. More clay practice would help. Yeah, on second thought, dried critter blood is pretty hard to "rinse" off but it blends in with my black truck bed liner a bit better.
I sure hope BH and I get some decent weather and this place dries out a bit the remaining three weeks in March.
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Nothing beats the art of talking a reluctant tree mounted crow a few hundred or more yards off.... most people do not know how to use their e-callers or cassette players...they crank too, too loud and expect crows 8 miles away to approach. Well I have witnessed it first hand that this doesn't work yet seasoned crow shooters do it still...it sound like the crows were ten feet tall calling through souped up rock n' roll amplifiers! The crows academically did not respond at all!
However mouth calls stay relatively the same volume....e callers are great if you don't mind educating them right at the very beginning if you are planning to return! I never saw the need to play any electronic caller if the crows are coming your way anyways. But people see " crow caller" and think that is all there is to it.
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Nothing beats the art of talking a reluctant tree mounted crow a few hundred or more yards off.... most people do not know how to use their e-callers or cassette players...they crank too, too loud and expect crows 8 miles away to approach. Well I have witnessed it first hand that this doesn't work yet seasoned crow shooters do it still...it sound like the crows were ten feet tall calling through souped up rock n' roll amplifiers! The crows academically did not respond at all!
However mouth calls stay relatively the same volume....e callers are great if you don't mind educating them right at the very beginning if you are planning to return! I never saw the need to play any electronic caller if the crows are coming your way anyways. But people see " crow caller" and think that is all there is to it.
with 25 post, it looks like you know what you are doing!
Can never get the volume out of a hand call when comparing to digital stuff. I often use hand calls in conjunction with electronic callers. With the deafening cacophony of ecaller blasting I can still chat a crow almost right into my blind if well concealed.
Ted
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Well; how who so ever pulls them in I always think it is great how so ever they do it. I am saying most people do not use them right'(electronic callers)or at least the ones i've heard. They otherwise sounded great. Me? I'd rather carry in a couple extra boxes of rounds because there will always be more crows for me when the old tired battle axe doubles are brought to play...that are only good for 15 yards as the bigger shot loses energy and startys to drop into the mud at the v15 yard mark, their energy totally spent, exhausted like their owners. The cows then pick up the individual shot and playing drop them on sitting birds of prey and the occasional raven, which is the corvid reincarnation of Jimmy Durante.
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I meant crows not cows....who also get sympathetic exhaustion watching the die hard double trouble trying to be a pump shotgun....which out classes the old rusty doubles with their wood picked apart by ants. You can always tell a double trouble owner-he will always have a pileated woodpecker sitting like a parrot on his shoulder to pick off the carpenter ants eating away the wood on the old weather beaten double troubles....
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