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boba · Guru

The making of a Crow Hunter.

boba · Guru

Lefty & Pete,

If you don't see the film clips just click on to the goose hunting film clip and it will bring up the other clips under my name. You will see them on the right hand side of your screen.

Thanks for your help.

nhcrowshooter · Guru

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoVWIH0_10U

nhcrowshooter · Guru

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xlvFXWfkDg

boba · Guru

Pete,

You are very kind, thank you.

I had just started shooting at flying birds that summer which included crows, pigeons, starlings and blackbirds.

I like looking at the clothing they wore and the guns they used in some of the very old film clips.

Right from the start I liked shotgunning more than shooting woodchucks with a rifle. The landscape you see of New York State was decent in some areas for woodchucks in those days up until the mid to late 60's.

boba · Guru

Pete,

There are two more that just got put on youtube.com one captures a scotch double on crows at the very end. The next one is called Bob Kansas Shoot and has 3 hunts with that title. My wife Gail shot the footage in the wheat field hunt.

Butch · Guru

Enjoyed the videos thanks for sharing, definitely good times!

Butch

nhcrowshooter · Guru

boba wrote:
Pete,

There are two more that just got put on youtube.com one captures a scotch double on crows at the very end. The next one is called Bob Kansas Shoot and has 3 hunts with that title. My wife Gail shot the footage in the wheat field hunt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbWUaqFNLs

-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Tuesday 11th of April 2017 10:36:58 AM

boba · Guru

Hi Butch,

This would have not been possible with out the help of Pete (NH Crow Shooter) and Lefty helping me getting these hunts on the Bulletin Board.

I wish I had that old 1938 Packard in the 1951 film footage. My dad bought that car for $ 500.00 in 1950 from my uncle on my mothers side of the family. He used to have gunny sacks filled with duck decoys that he kept in the back seat of that grand old touring car.

My father was a real mans man and he befriended people from all walks of life.

The Wheat Field Hunt is one of my favorites. I kept losing my hat in the midst of battle that morning. All 20 gauge on that hunt.

10gacrowshooter · Senior Member

I love the hunt along the river, I have had only a couple of days like that but not the body count.

scott

Lefty2Barrels · Senior Member

All credit goes to NH Crowshooter for posting the videos Bob. Good job Pete.

Bob, I enjoy w atching the videos but one that has always bothered me about videos is that some shots look like they are 100+ yards away. By only looking at the video I would have passed one some of the shots for neing to far.
So how far are your shots?
What choke do you normally or prefer to use?

boba · Guru

Hello Lefty,

On the river hunt for example the shots ranged from 20 to 45 yards with the bulk being under 35 yards. On the wheat field hunt I don't think I had a shot much past 30 yards that morning. I remember I kept losing my hat in that film clip. In the hunt that my wife Gail shot in the fall of 1990 about 15 minutes from my home the greater bulk of the birds shot in that film clip were all shot under 40 yards. Both that hunt and the river hunt were the most picturesque hunts in my humble opinion.

boba · Guru

Hello Scott,

I think any one who likes that river hunt is more than likely an ole duck hunter. Ryan and I were kidding each other on that shoot that when those dead crows floated down river to the next town the residents were going to think west nile virus must have killed them.

If you want to see some good film footage of hunting geese take a look at "Hunting Magellan & Ashy Headed Geese in Argentina" in that film footage is my ole hunting partner Boyd Robeson. Boyd and I hunted crows together for 21 years before his health got bad. Boyd had a very sharp mind and was as sharp as a tack.

You and Pete hunt in some very pretty country, I always loved the fall colors in New England when I lived in CT. I went to college in MA.

M12Shooter · Guru

Interesting to look back 60 plus years... and that car...your father must have been a man of means back in those days. The guy in the WW11 flight jacket looks as though he just crawled out of a B-17. Thanks for sharing.

Ted

boba · Guru

Ted, that was my cousin Lee Aronsohn who was in the air core in Europe during WW-2. My dad bought that Packard off my uncle for $ 500.00 back in 1950 at that time that car was 12 years old. I wish I had that old Packard now, it had a 12 cylinder engine.

boba · Guru

In a couple of days I will contact Pete and see if he can put up a hunt where we were hunting Mallards along a creek and when the shooting slacked off I used a hand call for the crows. Unusual having a duck and crow hunt right out of the same blind. No e-caller just a hand call in this segment. The camera man was kidding me on video tape saying that I was shooting Black Ducks instead of crows. That in itself is kind of funny because a real Black Duck is really a Black Mallard.

boba · Guru

At the end of the flyway crow shoot there is some very unusual film footage in the top of the frame from Africa where a Jack Russell Terrier is making a water retrieve on a mallard size duck! You have to click on to the film clip in order to view it.

nhcrowshooter · Guru

boba wrote:
In a couple of days I will contact Pete and see if he can put up a hunt where we were hunting Mallards along a creek and when the shooting slacked off I used a hand call for the crows. Unusual having a duck and crow hunt right out of the same blind. No e-caller just a hand call in this segment. The camera man was kidding me on video tape saying that I was shooting Black Ducks instead of crows. That in itself is kind of funny because a real Black Duck is really a Black Mallard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8bUSjcoQAY

d2 · Newbie

Gentlemen, these are great video's and I am enjoying them immensely. I've been a member for a few weeks and these are wonderful and worth more than the price of admission...d2

boba · Guru

Welcome D2,

They have a nice bunch of fellas on this site, I'm sure you will like it.