Crow Busters Forum

Hey Bayman,

This is not a crow story it's a seagull story.

Back when I was an outlaw I used to shoot the seagulls around a mile off of the north shore on Long Island sound. My friend and I started out just using a cheap single shot incase we got caught but after a few trips we started using pumps and semi autos! The thing we did to get rid of the evidence was to carry 3 or 4 cinder blocks which weighed about 40 pounds a piece. We would tie a dozed seagulls to each cinder block and deep six them where they were not floating around on top of the water.

Trolling for seagulls! We would head out usually early on a Sunday morning while everyone else was sleeping in. We would take a dead gull and tie a line to it's feet and let the line pay out roughly 20 yards or so from the stern of the boat. Once the boat planed off the dead gull looked like it was water skiing in back of the boat on top of the wake from the outboard motor. Other seagulls would spot this dead gull bouncing around on top of the water and thought it was following our boat so we would lure dozens of them outside some of the harbors and once off shore well away from land we let them have it! On Sunday mornings you could shoot up until around 9:00 a.m. before you saw any living souls out on there boats on Long Island sound. We were lucky, we never got caught, but the two of us kept our mouths shut and did not brag about it.

Ok, getting back to ducks, do you hunt on Great South Bay at all? That used to be the Bluebill Capital of the world back in the 1960's.

I have killed lots of crows while duck hunting with 3" #3s, but for crows being the main target I think you are dead right. I have shot a few with 2 3/4" #4 steel while hunting wood ducks and teal on the river and they worked like a charm out of a i.c. choke.