this was taken from a game camera at a friends hunting place ! and yes i can hunt crows there BUT only after deer season !!!! More on this later. I'm deer hunting with him till season ends & i have some crow stories i have been experiencing there. like the crow that caw's like a horn from a European car ! sounds just like a foreign car blowing it's horn twice. must have throat or tongue issues. More later.....
Yeah, same deal here. Fun to see on the camera and also frustrating. Tree rats and blue jays also having a feast.
I did pick up a non-typical buck last Thursday, our opening day. How's your hunt going?
I forgot the turkeys. In MI, they may not be shot over bait like deer. So this bunch which paraded by each day to visit the deer corn was off limits during the fall turkey season.
-- Edited by Old Artilleryman on Sunday 25th of November 2018 11:44:33 AM
this was taken from a game camera at a friends hunting place ! and yes i can hunt crows there BUT only after deer season !!!! More on this later. I'm deer hunting with him till season ends & i have some crow stories i have been experiencing there. like the crow that caw's like a horn from a European car ! sounds just like a foreign car blowing it's horn twice. must have throat or tongue issues. More later.....
camo,
I say get after them crows! The deer will be there, the crows may leave!
Two problems with going after the crows right now, Our season doesn't start again until Dec. 9 th. and the land owner said no shotgunning till he's done deer hunting !! Which should be by Dec. 9th. yay !
My deer hunting has consisted of helping my neighbor retrieve 2 nice bucks from his woods which i've been feeding all year & wanting to get one at least. The old guy got both of them but at least he gave me one since i found it for him. Got a nice doe yesterday. I'm good for now unless i see a monster. I always wanted & still hope to get a non typical. good hunting !
For years and years, there was a "shotgun line" extending across the southern half of the Lower Peninsula, south of which, only shotguns with slug/buckshot. Northward, center fire allowed. 2-3 years ago, someone on our DNR Board talked the other members into the amazingly sensible notion of permitting straight-walled cartridges statewide. Thus, we who are south of the shotgun line may use the shotgun, or a pistol cartridge, described in our Hunting Digest as:
"A .35 caliber or larger rifle loaded with straight-walled cartridges with a min. case length of 1.16 inches and a maximum case length of 1.80 inches." Can also hunt with an air gun fitting this caliber description.
Probably too much info, but Michigan has some really convoluted laws and regulations pertaining to hunting and fishing.
For my buck, I used a .44 magnum delivered by my 1966 Ruger; head shot at 25 yards.
I'm going out one more time on 29 or 30 NOV, the last two days in the two-week "gun season."
Good luck,
Craig
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Two problems with going after the crows right now, Our season doesn't start again until Dec. 9 th. and the land owner said no shotgunning till he's done deer hunting !! Which should be by Dec. 9th. yay !
My deer hunting has consisted of helping my neighbor retrieve 2 nice bucks from his woods which i've been feeding all year & wanting to get one at least. The old guy got both of them but at least he gave me one since i found it for him. Got a nice doe yesterday. I'm good for now unless i see a monster. I always wanted & still hope to get a non typical. good hunting !
camo,
It's 10 December. Those crows you had on the game cam are bothering me. I impatiently await reports of their demise.
That's an incredible amount of crows on that cam..naturally -shoot one-they all take off...an old area I frequented had become accustomed to leaving soon as a car or truck door slams..I've seen this with pheasant too....I can't hunt there any more any ways and any ways the crows by and large split that scene...they hang back up north. It's not the weather but so long as they can eat they'll hang around....a local farmer(ret.) used to crank out cow dung on a conveyor belt and the crows would pile in! There fore we had some crows all winter long in good numbers for what that is worth in NH! Now in this general area there is practically nothing; just a few bird feeder crows is it...
-- Edited by killer Crowalski on Tuesday 11th of December 2018 03:47:13 PM
