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Dixierunner · Veteran Member

RE: New member from the U.P. of Michigan

Bob O · Senior Member

LOL!!!!

I can't believe the season is half over already. I'm hoping the second half will be more fruitful than the first.

-- Edited by Bob O on Thursday 31st of August 2017 07:14:26 PM

Bob O · Senior Member

Got a new phone and having trouble recovering my password. If this works, just to update the thread, September has not gone as well as August. I'll try to get out five more times before the season ends.

Bob O · Senior Member

Got out last night and scouted out two spots for Sunday. They are close together and less than a mile outside the city limits......lots of crows always around the city and suburbs it seems. Hoping for a good day!!!

Bob O · Senior Member

Got five this morning.....perfect weather, started at 42*F

-- Edited by Bob O on Monday 18th of September 2017 11:43:07 PM

-- Edited by Bob O on Tuesday 19th of September 2017 02:21:54 AM

Island Shooter · Guru

Bob O,

Nice report and some excellent video clips. You had some really hard hits on those bandits! Thanks for posting it!

Demi

Old Artilleryman · Guru

Great job with the multi-camera views plus the Slo(Cro)Mo! Really enjoying watching your techniques develop. Everybody forgets stuff--I do once in a while and I use a paper checklist/loadplan (The last item I forgot wasn't in the list--now it is).

Also, those bandits are darn difficult to find in any height of brush, much less soybeans, corn, etc.

Keep knocking em down!

boba · Guru

Bob, you enunciate well on video.

You have good follow through after the shot is taken. The footage where you see the x following the crow is distracting for my taste, I like it much better when you just see the bird. But that is just me, others may like it.

Bob O · Senior Member

Thanks everyone....I enjoy making vids. The GunCam helps me understand how/why I miss - usually too much lead. Hopefully I can become a better shot by using it as well as with experience. I can shoot the heck out of a handgun and rifle, but somewhat a novice at wing shooting.

It's been a long day guys and I have to be up in 7 hours.....goodnight All.

Big Honkers · Guru

Hi Bob O,

Well done and good report! I know it takes a lot of time to edit all the various footage together so thanks for all your efforts!

Are you left eye dominant? I see that you close your left eye to shoot. ...maybe it's because you are a rifleman at heart.

BH

Bob O · Senior Member

No, right eye. But I do have a tendency to close the left for distance shots or if I feel I need to do that to eliminate seeing two sights in the "picture". I normally shoot with both eyes wide open.

Bob O · Senior Member

Got 7 the last time out. Here's a shorter video for you guys who aren't on Facebook. I'll go out again Sunday and hopefully Tuesday and next Saturday will be the last day of the season.

-- Edited by Bob O on Saturday 23rd of September 2017 12:58:15 AM

Big Honkers · Guru

Sweet!

boba · Guru

Bob O, have you viewed any of the film clips on the home page?

Bob O · Senior Member

Not sure Bob. I'll check....though I have watched your vids, the collection of 30 second clips....do you mean those?

boba · Guru

Hi Bob,

Yes, both mine and the other guys who have film clips on the front of the Home Page at Crow Busters. There is one clip, it's about the 5th or 6th clip where a friend of mine hits a crow so hard on video that you can see the crow get pushed from the impact of the shot hitting him.

boba · Guru

Bob O,

I just counted the clips and it is the 20th film clip where the crow gets pushed 3 feet sideways from the impact of the shot. The 13th, 15th, 16th and 17th film clips are worth watching. Most people don't have the patience to view all of them but there are some very good film clips after the first 8 or 10 film clips in a row. This might give you some Ideas since you love to video your crow hunts. You just have to sit down with yourself and focus on what you want to convey to the folks watching your work.

Good luck with your video's you are a man after my own heart in this regard.

Bob O · Senior Member

I will look for the vids and watch them all. I like to cast them to the TV.

I like the one where you could see red mist on the back side of the crow after a close hit!!!

Bob O · Senior Member

Wow, that was great....watched all of them!! My favorites we're the one where the crow looked like he fell right into your blind. And the one that got about half his feathers blown off!!!

boba · Guru

The hunt where the crow did come in to the blind is on you tube in it's entirety; it is called "The Arkansas River Crow Shoot" if you want to view it just google my name Bob and you will see it on page 1,2, or 3.

Good luck.

Bob O · Senior Member

I found it......I'll watch it tomorrow when I get back from the field. 5:30 a.m. comes quickly. I want to get out there early again.

Talk with you chaps tomorrow.

boba · Guru

Ok, talk with you then.

Bob O · Senior Member

I watched the video in its entirety, as well as a couple of others.....great stuff Bob!!

boba · Guru

Did it give you any ideas on either your hunting or film making?

Dixierunner · Veteran Member

Bob, love watching your videos! Any offers from the Outdoor Channel yet?

boba · Guru

Hello D.R. I want to stay under the radar at the national level in regard to TV. But thank you for asking.

Bob O · Senior Member

boba wrote:
Did it give you any ideas on either your hunting or film making?

Well Bob, I don't know what else I could do about the film making, being that I'm on my own. But I have learned from your vids, as I also learn every time I go out.

From your vids I've learned:

1. I need to get more creative and put more effort into constructing my blind.

2. I need to get taller stakes and netting so I can stand in my blind.

3. I need to get more decoys and place them in trees, not just on the ground.

4. If I get onto a farm I'll need lots of ammo!

Last video from hunting season.

Those are the four that quickly come to mind.

-- Edited by Bob O on Thursday 28th of September 2017 05:26:55 PM

boba · Guru

I see you have been studying the videos, that is good that you picked up on making your blind taller when possible.

I have spoken to Todd Gifford about having strong eyelets on the back of the crow decoys he sells so they can be used as tree decoys also.

Bob O · Senior Member

Bob,

You mentioned on FB I think that there was a small roost near Rochester, MN. I came upon this video from Minneapolis, not far from there. I'm going to have to seriously consider a hunt or two in that area!!