Opening day of Maine Winter/Spring crow season today. We took down 23 birds. We saw a lot in southern Maine for this early. I think the extreme cold snap we had for a couple weeks after Chistmas pushed a lot birds out of the north country. The odd thing about today is how the birds came in, it was always large balls of them, 15 to sometimes 200 of them. We had a 100+ birds over the decoys at least 5 or 6 times. There was a fairly stiff wind out of the west, gusts to 20mph. The birds took some wild evasive moves after the first shot.
-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Saturday 20th of January 2018 09:22:29 PM
NHcrowshooter---We had a 100+ birds over the decoys at least 5 or 6 times.
You see this is what happens to me where I go......not as often but enough...it is cool to see them but not cool to be unable to pop them!(I haven't done any winter or spring shooting in years btw. I am talking late fall here)
I think that I have found a (sort of) cure for them all coming in at once. When I put decoys out and run my caller, I'll get 20-100 crows flying into the decoys at once. If I use decoys with no calling, they tend to drift in lazily in singles or maybe a half dozen at a time. I'm also calling around huge fields, hundreds of acres, so the decoys are very visible at long distances.
I think that I have found a (sort of) cure for them all coming in at once. When I put decoys out and run my caller, I'll get 20-100 crows flying into the decoys at once. If I use decoys with no calling, they tend to drift in lazily in singles or maybe a half dozen at a time. I'm also calling around huge fields, hundreds of acres, so the decoys are very visible at long distances.
Possibly just a coincidence....
Your assessment about shutting down the caller in this situation makes sense. Go get em!'
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Shooting crows over snow is awesome. They seem to be very trusting when all is still white. Loaded a flat of 12 gauge fodder last night in preparation for my spring shooting campaign...still couple months distant though. Still have hundreds of pounds of lead shot in my garage. Picked it up for a song years ago when an old-timer trap shooter retired due to vision issues. When thats all gone Ill be shooting strictly factory stuff as I buy lots of factory loads presently strictly for convenience.
Ted
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