I like reminding the forum the about the reasons for not shooting up your crow roosts.....I had a not too shabby area that had so many crows that it had two roosts within calling distance of one another! But the locals figured out how to get the island roost-the original main one and the big pine tree roost area was a simple matter of walking across the street and setting up. Needless to say they cleaned it all out; and then I had to roam the area looking for the new crow headquarters-not found yet but it's early yet. The warm falls these days have them dragging their bacon from Canada so often times they arrive just as the season ends....
When shooting at roost bound crows always better to hit where the single stragglers are coming through although in my old area they came through in as much as a dozen at times but my biggest mistake was not getting set up where the crows had the wind at their backs as they shot by like arrows....think I will invest in one of those field blinds used for deer and turkey and modify it...if I find enough crows to justify the hike into the field that is...
And also get far enough away so you don't muck up the roost area-generally half a mile away is perfect....further if you can but still getting the single stragglers coming in and.. -again-if they all come at once ;you are wasting your time...
On a similar note I saw this video where this fellow was standing out in his back yard shooting at crows and said they were "migrating" but I believe they were roost bound crows but none the less it sure beats running all over the county trying to find a place to shoot what with all these left wing rich out of staters from Eastern New York (Troy and the like)and the police states of Taxachussettes and the Constitutionally vacant "constitution" state of Conecta wreck and Rogue Island trying to imitate the previous mentioned of ill repute.
Let us not forget the "scare crow" person or practice...years ago before this one gent retired: he "d sit out there in this one farm every day taking whatever migrant -which was all he was getting at this point; and scaring the local crows away so in peak migration he did okay but other wise so long as he got one or two crows he was happy but he ruined any thoughts of crow shooting there. For years I avoided it often going an hour away....but the bottom line is are you a "scare crow" or a crow shooter?
To be fair some guys don't mind getting few crows out there and given New England generally is all you are going to get anyways...that hundred bird kill is annual or extremely rare and here you got to have your timing perfect for that kind of shoot.to be fair it is quite possible as some New England areas have areas it can be done but under highly favorable condition such as no competition from other hunters whatever they might be hunting. And great timing. And lots of crows. I liked what Bert Popowski said in his book about New Englands' 13 crows being a typical New England shoot...
I stand corrected-you ought be a mile away when shooting at roost bound crows..not a half mile how ever years ago I was in a pinch….the furthest away I could get was a quarter mile but see here again I believed the roost was further away and in no danger of being disturbed...but I do know of people who got right in the roost itself and ruined it but good....another time we were right in the roost it self but it was in the middle of the day but I didn't know that. I got pretty frustrated when I realized that and the subsequent results was that the crows left that immediate area and it was pathetic shooting after that...lucky to shoot at a handful...even though the roost area was shot in during mid day...so if you got crowded spaces like here do what you can and good luck!