Glad to see some fellow shooters these days. Our laws are pretty tight up here but crows and magpies are considered pests and legal year round!
Reading up on some of your posts I could only dream of the numbers of incoming you are seeing..
I set up in the morning usually before its hot this time of year when they are still flying, no real roosts here but they do seem to find new territory very fast when you clear out the ones that currently inhabit it..
Good hour in the morning will bring in a dozen or so with a caller and decoy setup.. gets warm at mid day none are flying but usually can return to blind near sundown and run another series of calls commencing with a distress and that seems to bring in the partners of a few that i dropped earlier that day :) I like to sit with my dog and these 30+ Celsius temps are tough on the old girl. Even with 2 3/4 shells (canadian challenger #6 magnum 1 3/8) they seem to hit hard with carlson .700 choke in this stoeger 3500.
Last outing yeided 14 of them and every one of them was due to a calling set.. really wish to see the numbers you guys are seeing for incoming birds. Sitting around 90% of what i see all day and that is still only a dozen plus, reading and seeing pics of flocks over 100 descending on y'all and i can only dream... out here adrenaline starts going when you see half a dozen within a mile drive of your call site.
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Ever been to Chatham outside Toronto? That is the crow capital of Canada in winter! It is amazing anyone puts up with them as everything is covered in crow pie!!! I last understood that there are so many crows there in winter that you have to have a car wash every 3 feet!!!
Welcome to CB Forum! Good to hear from our neighbors to the North. As you have already learned, this site is rich with good information.
While you may be jealous of some of the century hunts, don’t feel bad about a 14 TBC... with numbers like that, it proves you are doing something right, so your counts will no doubt be increasing.
Also, at the same time you are jealous of our numbers, we are green with envy that you get to hunt year round!
Keep those reports coming,
Demi
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Ever been to Chatham outside Toronto? That is the crow capital of Canada in winter! It is amazing anyone puts up with them as everything is covered in crow pie!!! I last understood that there are so many crows there in winter that you have to have a car wash every 3 feet!!!
Cant say that I have gone that far east, but that would be the first good reason that may convince me (will leave political jokes alone here). haha
I actually have the same issue in a way, I work in the city so i have to spend my week in a rental away from the ranch and the crows are in the front trees every day there is mess on my truck from them. Makes me mad you cant shoot them in town due to legalities anything considered "launching a projectile" can be punished by law in the City limits. These crows are of the stupid kind too, they won't move if you come near them unlike the Wiley country crows. Seems everything gets passified when it moves to big city limits no matter the creature... humans included. lol I actually head that the Canadian geese have been migrating to city locations down south for the winter rather than the rural bodies of water in record numbers knowing that its safer. It speaks for itself when even the geese can tell.
Per bylaw here you can live trap them... only if you have an ample supply of water and food in the live trap. Then you are supposed to drive them out of town and release them, just to have them fly back.
Whoever made up these bylaws needs to be brought down to the level of a common man without a heated 4 car garage and have their BMW shat on daily.
Thank you both for the warm welcome and kind words of encouragement
I am working on reaching out to a few local farmers now that they have started to seed, with any luck I will have some new shooting venues and pictures to post soon!
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