I really don't like to get up early unless I have to so here are some photos from when I hunt by myself. If I am in the mood I stay out until mid night and sack in the next morning. I get up have some breakfast at the local café and head out to the boon docks by 11:00 a.m. to line up an afternoon shoot.
I did some run and gunning this morning and got rid of 3 more. The population is just not up yet. I'm hoping some cold weather will push some new birds south real soon. How is the Ft. Cobb Roost now a days? That's only a little over 2 hours from my house. I have permission on farmland real close to there.
-- Edited by DuckWyatt on Saturday 15th of October 2016 08:54:28 PM
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Also just because any roost anywhere has any crows doesn't guarantee any decent shooting at all..I read where at the time of the Ft Cobb roost there was about 27 crow shooters trying to get any but as that season wore on the birds became harder and harder to get! But that is the rule regarding any roost; shoot right in the roost and kiss that goldmine goodbye! Same if you shoot too close! I know of this area that despite the hundreds of crows one shot and it's goodbye Charlie! They may never return until next year as they might as well move on as the next available feeding area is too far away so off to the safer wintering grounds they go!
Someone shot up this smaller roost around here last year. Oddly another bigger roost was but nearly half mile away but the crows at the time liked that smaller roost?! It's just a bad idea to shoot any roost up....you'll probably have to go a couple hours elsewhere in the next county where ever when you could have kept your neighboring roost ten minutes down the road!
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Comparing this state to the plains region speaking of New England until you get to possibly Pennsylvania is pretty pathetic; a basket case! Every crow you get here you got to appreciate as it's almost easier to pull hens' teeth!
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Top Cat Statutes never replaced or rewrote the constitution!
Comparing this state to the plains region speaking of New England until you get to possibly Pennsylvania is pretty pathetic; a basket case! Every crow you get here you got to appreciate as it's almost easier to pull hens' teeth!
"almost easier to pull hens' teeth!" ROTFL!!! I'll have to remember that one.
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Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,....
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Are the days of shooting in the hundreds and hundreds history? Or are they something you just have to travel farther to achieve?
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Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,....
MattW
That Adult Distress Crow call you have from FOXPRO pulled in a couple of leary birds. They had been sitting about 100 yards for 10-15 minutes and nothing would move them. I turned on that call and they came in like a bunch of fighter jets........they gone, they won't have to worry about making that mistake again. Thanks for the great call and the great tip!
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Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,....
MattW
Comparing this state to the plains region speaking of New England until you get to possibly Pennsylvania is pretty pathetic; a basket case! Every crow you get here you got to appreciate as it's almost easier to pull hens' teeth!
You can't compare New England states with agricultural states when it comes to crow shooting. You have to make a steady effort in NH and take the good with the bad. You also have to know when to look for when crows are migrating, both fall and spring. We had a 35 bird shoot today and I had a 32 bird solo hunt Wednesday. The migration is just starting and we have almost 400 birds down between us now. That pales in comparison to the midwest and places with pecan orchards but we stay at it. Better days will soon be upon us.
You can still get shooting where you can get several hundred or more but they don't come everyday of the season. You can be the best crow hunter there is and still not shoot many crows if you are in a virtual crow dead zone with not enough to work on. You have to be where the numbers are and that is easier said than done for several reasons. First you have to know what area and state to go to. Next you have to learn the area and the birds habits. Then you have to find out who owns or farms the ground you want to hunt on which can sometimes be a daunting task in and of it's self. Then you have to have plenty of time because breaking in a new area takes time, patience and lots of observation. In areas I have hunted for years I still have to observe the birds because feeding areas can change from week to week and even with tens of thousands of crows to work on you can still get skunked if you are not in the right spot.
Well the deal is i get my share in all fairness despite the excruciating odds-two areas are exclusively goose and pheasant areas -the pheasant area is kind of wait until the hunters leave scenario and shoot what you can until the others come in...as for the goose hunters? I cannot respectfully attempt crow shooting as there are not places for that kind of hunting anymore..seems the kids grew up in my old traditional spots and wanted nothing to do with hunting; much less crow shooters or new owners in which case I was asked never to come back...with me it isn't a "numbers" game but an "anything at all" game....that old dump years ago you wanted the pheasant hunters out there particularly on sunday as guess where the crows were all going?
Now here we got to watch the firearms legislation and despite the constitution which is law the demeroids never concern themselves with laws unless they wrote them! Times sure have changed! It is sickening to watch areas formerly covered in crows now seeing a lone flapper checking out road kill on a sunday morning but otherwise seeing nothing for miles and miles!
Oh yes I only shot about 8 or so.....last Monday first time this year. The gun wouldn't cycle and is in the shop getting a make over..otherwise the total would have been closer to twenty shooting 5s and 6s....but saw far far more....
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This whole state is something of a "dead zone".....brain dead zone due to numbskull politicians who rewrite history as convenient and suddenly Rockefeller so called "republicans' when they think no one is looking!
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I strongly suspect a slow gradual crow migration probably means a milder winter! Now that cannot be too bad now can it? We here will get whatever crows we can and often until the migration burns itself out and I think all parties here will be happy as in seasons past! Personally I prefer getting so many crows versus they all blow by like this past Monday!
Now Monday was so weird...when the second bunch arrived you had to have been looking with binoculars in their direction and this caught me by surprise! They could eat at the northern cornfield-the new one and just slip off a couple hundred yards right into the roost while staying north of the eagles and hawks who worried themselves trying to catch unwary pigeons like the red tailed hawk or attempting to grab a crow on the wing by using itself as bait like that crazy bald eagle did mean whiles sailing over to check out any unwary fish in the river! So over all it was great entertainment despite my gun problems that day. And that above all else is the bottom line! Sunday none of the aforementioned will prove to be a significant factor if at all! The big difference will be golden eagles-not Bald eagles and or red tailed hawks!
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Comparing this state to the plains region speaking of New England until you get to possibly Pennsylvania is pretty pathetic; a basket case! Every crow you get here you got to appreciate as it's almost easier to pull hens' teeth!
Now may I explain exactly what I meant here? I am saying we have nothing to really brag about regarding crow numbers compared to the plains states in example and the best example-we don't have doggy doo comparing NH to -say-Oklahoma or where ever...or what ever..we don't have much by comparison as such to even New York State or Pennsylvania...in other words NH doesn't have it if you want to crows in numbers!
We have a pathetic number of crows ( a good shooter unhampered can do a dozen)and we are dependent on what Quebec can send us further more we are hampered by a nearly useless pathetic spring season and a lack of areas to go anyways....goose hunting is far bigger as well as duck hunting of which much goose hunting is done in the same areas as crow hunting putting a serious squeeze on areas that are potentially good areas but either verbally posted (permission denied) or clearly posted as with signs , making every last crow a NH crow shooter might get something one worked for....this is a garbage state to want to shoot crows in...for any numbers...in other words you can find 300 crows in a field in fall but one shot and they are gone...all gone. It's no easy sport at all. How odd; you might get goose shooting but crow shooting not is allowed...or the crows don't frequent the area any more anyways...oh yes; if you live in a big crow state but no crows in your immediate area you will find them some where else in those numbers will basically dwarf anything New England has to offer. And in this area the crows roost almost particularly in the suburbs 100% and then you need to find a flyway a few miles out or much further depending on the roost size and areas available to shoot at them..I say "shoot at" because there's no guarantee you can shoot them if none are around anyways...0ne former hot spot has yet to be seen of any crows at all...
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I think you need to get out more, just saying. You are correct we don't have the agriculture of NY and PA and thus don't have the number of crows or game birds those states have. Nowhere in New England compares to the number of crows to be found in the midwest. But this is where we live and this is what we have, make the best of it. Shooting a crow here is not terribly difficult. If you believe a good shooter can only manage 12 birds a day unhampered, we must be unbelievably fantastic shooters (seeing how we are quickly exhausted as you pointed out in earlier post from shooting what you described as our old ancient boat anchors with worn bluing and cracked stocks). Today we got 29 birds in the AM and two days ago shot 35, the weather yesterday not good. As far as finding 300 crows in a field, how about getting there before dawn and taking them before they gather in such a large number, or walk out and flush them without shooting when you find them like that, many will return later and not all at once. There are certainly better areas of the country to hunt but crows have been migrating through NH for the last 10 days, so get off the computer and go shoot some crows.
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Comparing this state to the plains region speaking of New England until you get to possibly Pennsylvania is pretty pathetic; a basket case! Every crow you get here you got to appreciate as it's almost easier to pull hens' teeth!
Now may I explain exactly what I meant here? I am saying we have nothing to really brag about regarding crow numbers compared to the plains states in example and the best example-we don't have doggy doo comparing NH to -say-Oklahoma or where ever...or what ever..we don't have much by comparison as such to even New York State or Pennsylvania...in other words NH doesn't have it if you want to crows in numbers!
We have a pathetic number of crows ( a good shooter unhampered can do a dozen)and we are dependent on what Quebec can send us further more we are hampered by a nearly useless pathetic spring season and a lack of areas to go anyways....goose hunting is far bigger as well as duck hunting of which much goose hunting is done in the same areas as crow hunting putting a serious squeeze on areas that are potentially good areas but either verbally posted (permission denied) or clearly posted as with signs , making every last crow a NH crow shooter might get something one worked for....this is a garbage state to want to shoot crows in...for any numbers...in other words you can find 300 crows in a field in fall but one shot and they are gone...all gone. It's no easy sport at all. How odd; you might get goose shooting but crow shooting not is allowed...or the crows don't frequent the area any more anyways...oh yes; if you live in a big crow state but no crows in your immediate area you will find them some where else in those numbers will basically dwarf anything New England has to offer. And in this area the crows roost almost particularly in the suburbs 100% and then you need to find a flyway a few miles out or much further depending on the roost size and areas available to shoot at them..I say "shoot at" because there's no guarantee you can shoot them if none are around anyways...0ne former hot spot has yet to be seen of any crows at all...
-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Saturday 22nd of October 2016 08:41:36 PM
I feel encouraged when you get the numbers I admit that.....as much as I love crow shooting I won't go after just one or two crows. Now is the time I can get almost two dozen this time of year each time out...so long as new ones keep coming in and I don't use the same old scenario...I do okay. If my competitors show up then that specific area is done for the year so I am praying more geese show up to keep the pressure off the crows!
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I need to explain that a flight touching down may eventually have 300 crows based upon my arrival but that isn't always the case; in fact it is merely migrants building up as smaller flocks drift in creating this "murder"..less anyone get the idea I am swimming in crows where I got to travel to to get any decent shooting. If my area always had 300 crows you can be sure I'd be racking up the score indeed! When I arrive typically there are no crows at all. But once I walk to the blind I hear them way out there casually chatting away or in a royal rumble ruckus calling out there just within ear shot
What I am shooting at is basically a half dozen dropping only one or one comes in every so often...it is one of those drop your coffee and shoot scenarios you've seen on the forums...the crow will silently sail in with a mouth full of whatever isn't nailed down as I see it so no calling... no where near as good as the "good old days" where if you aren't shooting then you must be loading but even so it is nothing at all like the Mississippi river region...lot of territory huh? Yeah I moan and groan about it a lot in the old area days. But this old flyway shifted to barely nothing. Here again you might see a flight of anywhere to 50 to a hundred but these days that might be all you see here...one flight of either 50 or a hundred and that was because of that battle royal a couple weeks ago Monday. When that group left any further crows mainly stayed north of me, numbers unknown seen only with binoculars. More often than not these days I see only a migrant or too anytime I see any as the locals are eating a bit south of me...or north...
One thing crows ain't that stupid. Some places you can park your vehicle relatively close to your blind and it won't make the crow gun shy. But here in most cases you cannot. They put two and two together. You got to know the area where you can and cannot. There are exceptions; not rules. I know people who think well they did it two weeks ago and it wasn't a problem! Well guess what?!? Now the crow blow by the fields altogether! Other items they fly over head at about 1,200 feet and don't come down!
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