Right before Christmas a friend who owns farmland that was planted in peanuts asked me to hunt with him and his son. I wrote about it in an earlier post, and that was seven weeks ago. With the passage of time, the crows have been returning, so he called up again and wanted to hunt a nearby field. The first attached image shows the original hunt "A" and where we were going to set up this time "B".
While I was setting up the blind he said that I should plan on three people as he had a couple of out-of-town guests...that didn't include me, so I set it up for four people. No problem, as I was also a "guest" as this was his land, not mine. I'm just happy to be able to hunt crows.
When I showed up Saturday morning, much to my surprise, we had yet another addition! Five people in the blind, 3 hunting and two observing. This hunt had obviously turned into entertainment for his house guests. Part of the reason is that my friend really enjoys hunting crows and he wanted to pass along the fun times to others. Instead of getting upset, I simply took a chill pill and decided to have fun and not worry about numbers or birds flaring (it was a good thing, as one of the guests didn't even have camo on).
The birds were there, but a large percentage of them were the wary fish crows and with the large crowd of hunters there were some other groups that wouldn't come in. We managed to end the hunt with 37 total crows. All things considered it was not a bad showing. After the hunt we returned to his house for a nice lunch and lots of stories. In addition to the crows, I also gained some new friends that I hope to see again in the future (but not necessarily in the crow blind!).
There is no way in hell I would hunt under those kind of conditions. I would just forget the place and go find another spot.
Totally understand where you are coming from, Bob. You, like Jerry Tomlin are all about the numbers and that is fine. In my case, I love bragging about the numbers too, but I also love to interact with good people. The crow hunting for me is a vehicle to meet and spend time with others.
Both work for our particular situations. As they say "To each his own."
Demi
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Well put. I like socializing with people myself when I go on a crow safari, just not in the crow blind. I enjoy visiting with the different folks out of state at the end of the day or on a day when I am not hunting, just scouting.
Demi: Afraid I am with BobA on this.. I love and cherish making new friends but outside of my crow blind. And call me selfish, but educating crows is a necessary aspect of crow hunting, educating other shooters is not especially those that would hunt my area. Years ago I used to feel differently but got stung too often. My 2-cents.
Well the story is a favorite place had shooters there and my partner wanted to go and I said :"And what now-teach them (or show) them our techniques? So we left and went elsewhere but I don't remember where. In any case we did leave; too many others of which three were there already. Basically too many shooters and not enough areas to go so I was saying like you and Skip and others; too many shooters time to go home or elsewhere....
This reminds me this happened fairly recently too. Some irregular visitors to this one area were already busy. I said:"I'm leaving!" But my partner said I know an area and it was safely north of this area where our shooting actually drove the first comers out! And for what this is worth we almost got a Bert Popowski New England "dozen"(15 crows).
The bottom line is too many shooters -grab another area or go home.
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