Crow Busters Forum

Our South Carolina crow season runs from November to March but crop destroying crows are fair game all year.  I've been shaking some bushes with farmers and found a peanut farmer with a crow problem not too far from home.  Scouting the field last week showed that there were enough birds to do a hunt, so we set it up for Monday morning because he planned to harvest the field on Tuesday.  On the way back from a dove hunt on Saturday evening, I set up the blind.  A friend who had gone with me on two past crow hunts wanted to hunt again... although green at hunting crows, he is a very good shot.  All was set and waiting.

Once settled into the blind, two birds were the first to arrive but neither of them left...except for the "crow snow" they left gently falling onto their corpses.  A very good start to the season!  Along with the temperature, the crow activity quickly rose and remained steady until about 9:30. 

The birds showed up in small groups which was the perfect condition for bringing down multiple birds.  I had 3 or 4 doubles, a couple of triples and one quad out of a large flock of fish crows.  Those fish crows never knew what hit them, but when their buddies kept falling the others just kept coming back.  Now that was fun shooting!

As mentioned above, 9:30 was the abrupt end to our hunt.  Don't know if was the location or the warm weather, but after 9:30 we couldn't hear, see or shoot anything resembling a crow, so we packed up and left.  The final count was exactly 50 birds downed.  Yes the picture only shows 36 crows but there are reasons for this:  A deep ditch behind the blind, chiggers, ticks, rattlesnakes and the heat.  BTW, those are the same reasons that a lot of transplanted Northerners don't stay around here for very long.

That's the report for now.

Demi