Crow Busters Forum

Good to see you "Rollin" them! Good pics.

Butch

Hi Wingsetter,

Fine photo's and excellent results.  I really liked your decoy setup.  I bet that really pulled'em in close.

Regards,

 

Wingsetter wrote:

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Back to Fridays spot , Normally don't hunt the same place twice in a weekend, but with the fog so heavy the last couple days figured a lot of the birds didn't get a good look. They were definitely higher today and had to wait them out to see if some would drop in. And quite a few did venture in for a close look.

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 Hey! You got a real "cro-getter" dog there!

Classiest crow decoy set up I ever saw. This is what I like top see....another fellow in Taxachussettes uses the general same idea and you can be sure he gets the birds!

 I don't think thirty birds is "small"..not at all! I bet there is the potential for more! You haven't found it yet. Iowa is no  small crow hunt area- Keep looking!

boba wrote:

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Jim,

That is a very nice trailer, are you a goose guide in Iowa?

Many years ago I used to hunt crows in Iowa near Newton. I had a photo op similar to yours with the dead crows on the hood. The blood stains never came out of the paint job on the hood of the pickup from those crows!

Good luck on future crow hunts.

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 Well not a guide , but I do take a lot of different people out, Try to keep my groups very small 2 or 3 getting 6-9 geese is a great hunt,  Take 5 to 7 and not so good then.  Late in the year it's hard to conceal very many to. 

And this old truck has had it's share of blood stains, Pic of couple of the kids I had out this fall. Refuse to get a new one because I would take it where I go know. YEE HAA!

It looks like you hit a soft spot and wend down and possibly high centered.

The first photo was very nice with the young hunters.

I follow you, this is why my partner and I travel in two different four wheel drive pickups. If one gets stuck, the other pulls him out!

Sure do, he mounted a couple of hutchies a couple years ago for me. First met him when I was out scouting, we do a couple hunts a year together now. He's one of those guys that has an open schedule usually during the week.

Good to see another Iowa guy getting after em on here. I'm like you Jim, don't hit em too hard until waterfowl season is over. My boys used to wrestle at Jesup. Was always surprised to see how many geese were wintering in that Waterloo area when we would drive through there.

Nice kills and nice job to the dog too. Yeah I can't really say I "need" a retriever but it would be nice and it's nice to have a companion along on those long all day hunts.

Will do, yeah know you can PM him any time though, We both Migrated from Waterfowler and now spend our posting time on http://www.iawaterfowlers.com. We're both on there about everyday his name is "IATaxidermist" and I go by Wingsetter there also. I'll let him know you said HEY!

Still getting them to work, nice set-up today and they worked in pretty good broke the 40 barrier for this season finally. Buck had a blast although he was a mess, he had blood all down his neck and chest. Let good times roll as they say it.

You're doing "good works."

Hey cool!

Hope you two had a great season!

BH

Jim (Wingsetter) ,

If you look at the photos of the blind you can see right thru it where you are day lighted and the birds can spot your movement much easier. It would be very easy to keep the camo more dense on the back side of the blind so this does not happen. I put a canvas tarp across the back side of my two man blind to keep it nice and dark inside so you don't get day lighted; plus it's a great wind break. I think this would help you kill more crows in my opinion.

Bob A.

Pre Superbowl hunt went well, got in a nice hunt before the game. Overall birds worked in pretty good. Layout blinds usually conceal us the best. 

Do you use a T post or something driven into the ground for corner structure?

Lefty & Jim,

I welded up a frame 43 years ago and covered it with jute netting; the type they used in WW2 to hide the gun emplacements. Three sections are hinged together where it is almost like a horse shoe type of shape. Then the back rests up against it. The dimensions are 6 feet long, four feet deep and 4 1/2 feet high.

Lefty'

Simple has always worked for me.

Warm front moving in this weekend, which shouldn't hurt hunting to much. Got out for a little while this morning while everything was still froze, Quite a bit of wind today which slowed the birds up a little from flying off the roost. Gotta go by more shells again which is a good thing!

Well I handle the cold pretty well , got a couple fingers though that have been frostbitten over the years and they feel a lot colder then they really are. Picking up decoys in icy water will do that to ya. My crow decoys don't fair to well though in the freezing temps, at least the flambeau ones, plastic gets pretty brittle and falling out of trees can break'm pretty easy. Set-up some of the G & H's for tomorrow and pitched the broke ones.

Thanks , hope to keep it going. Had a nice hunt Sat. morning. Got one of my younger hunting partners out for the first time this year and we did pretty good. I like hunting with this young man, he has a good understanding of enjoying the hunt so we take turns and back each other up really well, so it is recommend don't miss your first shot when your up to bat!!. We can sense when one of us is in a bad position to make a shot so the other has to which makes it so much more fun, some ribbing of each other will definitely occur. Anyway got a call from another friend I'm Snow goose hunting with in a couple weeks invited me up to Fayette County to try and wreck some of his birds, so Friday we're on for Northern Iowa Crows!

Didn't tear anything up this morning, Friends spot wasn't in the flyway, ended up with 7 birds. It was still fun we hadn't visited much lately and have a snow goose hunt coming up together, if they don't blast through to quick with this warm weather. Tomorrow should/could be better.??

Little better this morning, knocked 20 from the layout blind. They're definitely getting a little call shy, shot close to half with no calls at all. Fortunately I was set-up in a very visible spot. Little greasy getting outta the field with these warm temps won't be long and frost will be gone. There were lots of Snow Geese Migrating this morning, hopefully they're not jumping the gun a little.