If you can put up the film clip "Bob Aronsohn shoots his 100,000th crow in 28 seasons" it will be something for the fellas to look at during this dead time of year. There is another one called "Hunting the Greatest Avian Marauder, the Crow" and yet another called "Hunting those Cagey Crows"
They are all on youtube.com on page one and two if you use my name in the search engine.
Thanks Pete, I could not do it with out your help.
Scott, did you watch all the clips and if not which ones did you view? From your description you watched the 100,000th crow in 28 seasons shoot. "Hunting those Cagey Crows" has a good hand calling segment in it.
Thank you for posting these film clips on the Bulletin Board. Your help is much appreciated.
This should be interesting for the guys who run & gun and have never experienced shooting on a flyway. It is just another way to hunt them is all. All the clips you just posted were all afternoon crow hunts on birds coming off the feed in the afternoon hours. After they have a full belly they are more prone to want to get in to mischief and that can be there downfall.
In the "Wheat Field" crow hunt it shows a morning hunt in a feeding area.
Pete, with the technology we have today future generations will be able to see what crow hunting was like in "our time" in the 21st century.
When I get time I will have some more crow hunting changed to MP-4 so I can get it on youtube. I have others from the early 1960's when the record players (e-callers) first came out. These are not my hunts, they are crow hunts that I retrieved off of 16mm movie film years ago! I even have some crow hunting in Maine in 1960 along the shore line. I have another hunt in Canada shooting crows and ravens in the late 1950's using just hand calls and a stuffed owl decoy.
Can't say one was a favorite, I just enjoy "real hunting footage". I don't watch hunting shows because of all the "canned" hunting that's on not to mention the constant sales pitches. To me the Curt Gowdy days seemed real actual hunting for the most part.
Butch, you are dating your age when you mentioned Curt Gowdy on TV. My dad & I used to watch "The American Hunter" all the time back in the early to mid 1960's. You just brought back a very fond memory!
Believe your correct Bob, that was good T.V. And add reading articles in the hunting mags from Capstick, O'Conner, etc would make a young aspiring hunter unable to sleep. Those were good times.
Hey Butch, do you remember Gritts Greshem the outdoor writer and TV personality of the 1960's? He had a shoot in Oklahoma when Ft. Cobb was at it's peak in the mid 1960's and shot over 700 crows in one spot all day long. My old pal Boyd Robeson knew him but was not really friends with him.
Here is a story for you but I am no Jack O'Conner in the writing department.
It will be 49 years ago this November that I first came to Kansas to hunt crows. My dad was 60 and I was 20 on my first trip. I was on leave from the USN and shipped out for Viet Nam the following month.
I can remember my very first hunt out here, my dad and I were riding around in the game wardens car (Paul Lees) and he was showing us the territory. We were 1 mile southeast of the old Medora crow roost (close to 2 million crows in those days) and there was a flyway coming through so the warden says this should be a good spot hop out! My father stayed with Paul Lees while I hot footed it out to a low evergreen tree about 5 feet tall and hid behind it with a 20 gauge and a hand call. I shot 50 odd crows as fast as I could keep the gun loaded and was out of ammo!
Paul showed us around for the next day and introduced us to land owners who had problems with the crows. My dad and I spent a week out here on the first trip and that was the only hunt he shared with me out here. I came out alone while on leave from the Navy for the next couple of years. By 1970 I started coming out with an old college pal but that only lasted two crow seasons because he was not in to it like I was. My brother came out one year and that was it for him as well. I suppose it would be fair to say that there are serious crow hunters and casual crow hunters; my dad, brother and old college pal fell in to the casual department.
It is amazing the experience you pick up along the way, for example back in the early 1970's before I moved out here I would shoot seven to eight hundred crows in a weeks time. Now after years of hunting them and knowing the territory I easily shoot twice that amount in the same time period.
There are other guys who hunt crows who get good shooting around the country but can only talk about there experiences and perhaps have a few old still photos. I wanted others to see what I saw in the field and experience it like they were right in the blind with me. This is just my opinion here but to me it is very boring just watching the muzzle of the shotgun shooting crows with out some dialog and seeing the shooter as he is doing the shooting. Also seeing the blind he is in and perhaps the shotgun he is using.
So, will you start in again in mid to late September?
Here is a story for you but I am no Jack O'Conner in the writing department.
It will be 49 years ago this November that I first came to Kansas to hunt crows. My dad was 60 and I was 20 on my first trip. I was on leave from the USN and shipped out for Viet Nam the following month.
I can remember my very first hunt out here, my dad and I were riding around in the game wardens car (Paul Lees) and he was showing us the territory. We were 1 mile southeast of the old Medora crow roost (close to 2 million crows in those days) and there was a flyway coming through so the warden says this should be a good spot hop out! My father stayed with Paul Lees while I hot footed it out to a low evergreen tree about 5 feet tall and hid behind it with a 20 gauge and a hand call. I shot 50 odd crows as fast as I could keep the gun loaded and was out of ammo!
Paul showed us around for the next day and introduced us to land owners who had problems with the crows. My dad and I spent a week out here on the first trip and that was the only hunt he shared with me out here. I came out alone while on leave from the Navy for the next couple of years. By 1970 I started coming out with an old college pal but that only lasted two crow seasons because he was not in to it like I was. My brother came out one year and that was it for him as well. I suppose it would be fair to say that there are serious crow hunters and casual crow hunters; my dad, brother and old college pal fell in to the casual department.
It is amazing the experience you pick up along the way, for example back in the early 1970's before I moved out here I would shoot seven to eight hundred crows in a weeks time. Now after years of hunting them and knowing the territory I easily shoot twice that amount in the same time period.
There are other guys who hunt crows who get good shooting around the country but can only talk about there experiences and perhaps have a few old still photos. I wanted others to see what I saw in the field and experience it like they were right in the blind with me. This is just my opinion here but to me it is very boring just watching the muzzle of the shotgun shooting crows with out some dialog and seeing the shooter as he is doing the shooting. Also seeing the blind he is in and perhaps the shotgun he is using.
So, will you start in again in mid to late September?
Basically I did the hand calling and my partners did the shooting! My "start" .....otherwise I shot them out of a low tree with a .22......got a couple that way however....nothing at all like your beginnings Bob!
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Here is a story for you guys that relates to the crow hunting film footage. I went back to Maryland with Jerry Byroad in 2006 to hunt crows in Maryland and upper New York State. Jerry was having a big party one evening with tons of guests and they had a 4x8 size pool table in the house with good felt and rails. There was a guy there who had just broken a 100 year record in Maryland at trap shooting from the 27 yard line. He shot a high dollar "Silver Seitz" trap gun that is made in Maryland. He loved watching some of the film footage you guys have been viewing recently on this post. He says to me do you ever play any pool? I said "a little" he says do you want to play? I said sure why not. So we were playing 8 ball where you had to call your ball and the pocket it was going in.
It became clear that he was a decent player just not a good intermediate player where I was more advanced in ability and experience. Jerry was screwing with his mind as we were playing saying to him "Mike you know Bob is thinking about making a pool playing video" which did not help his temperament any during the course of the night. We were playing just for fun no money was involved. We parted as friends because he was a real gentleman.
Here is a story for you guys that relates to the crow hunting film footage. I went back to Maryland with Jerry Byroad in 2006 to hunt crows in Maryland and upper New York State. Jerry was having a big party one evening with tons of guests and they had a 4x8 size pool table in the house with good felt and rails. There was a guy there who had just broken a 100 year record in Maryland at trap shooting from the 27 yard line. He shot a high dollar "Silver Seitz" trap gun that is made in Maryland. He loved watching some of the film footage you guys have been viewing recently on this post. He says to me do you ever play any pool? I said "a little" he says do you want to play? I said sure why not. So we were playing 8 ball where you had to call your ball and the pocket it was going in.
It became clear that he was a decent player just not a good intermediate player where I was more advanced in ability and experience. Jerry was screwing with his mind as we were playing saying to him "Mike you know Bob is thinking about making a pool playing video" which did not help his temperament any during the course of the night. We were playing just for fun no money was involved. We parted as friends because he was a real gentleman.
I ran into a guy once who thought he was king of the pen but he got a little humility I grant you that!
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