Were you solo or with Pete that day? What year did you do this in?
For back east that is a bell ringer of a shoot.
I was working the morning of that big shoot and Scott did it in spite of a very inexperienced partner. We have had three 100+ days with our best together total of 154 last October. Those are exceptional days only made possible when everything comes together just right during the fall migration.
I can relate to what you are saying. I took my fathers friend on a hunt that would have been over 500 if he could have hit his ass with both hands! We were in Oklahoma in the early 1980's. Not Ft. Cobb this was 250 to 300 miles from Ft. Cobb in the southeastern part of the state. It was not a big roost perhaps 20 to 25 thousand birds. The two of us got 360 odd crows between us but it should have been a lot more.
The locals in town had no clue that there was a roost 3 miles west of town. They have to leave town first!
You should know by you're records that you keep "when to go" when you get the right kind of weather.
Bob just wondering do you count the crows you actually pick up or do you count the one that are breast shot and go down 200 yards away. a personal preference,Me and my partner usually count the ones we see go down.,
I shot ONE single crow yesterday. Just pottering the farms, but the crows know my vehicle and know me now, so as soon as I enter a farm they all take off and exit for places far :( So when I ever set up for a day, I have to set up and be ready an hour before sunrise so the crows don't see me. If they do, games up and I will shoot very few. I also then have to park the wagon a good way away from where I am shooting, and preferably hidden. The farmers say I am the best scarecrow they have, I don't have to shoot, just turn into the driveway. :( Poachers are back again, so no foxes the last two nights and only one the night before that :( Last harvest was also bad. Following a long period of rain, we had a few bright days so all the farmers harvested on the same days, meaning masses of food locations for them. Had two days of 97 per day (very annoying when you are that close to 100 but nothing more even crosses the field) and a lot of days of 20-50 but that was it. Hoping when they start planting it's more spread out, so that they are forced to come to my decoyed fields
-- Edited by Redditch on Sunday 4th of September 2016 08:40:57 PM
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