That's fantastic Bob! Astounding really! I will consider myself privileged if I get to chase crows for as many years as you have. Hopefully, this coming wave of cold weather will help push the few crows you didn't shoot further south:)
congratulations ! That's quite an accomplishment. Good thing you decided to keep tally of your shoot's over the years . Perhaps 200,000 is around the horizon.
Rob, I shot my first crow flying at 11 1/2 years old. That is 63 years ago!
By the time I was 15 I could use a hand call to get them to come over. I used a 20 gauge model 12 Winchester bored WS 1 with both number 9 and 8 shot in those days of "Run & Gunning" in New York State during the summer months. I got my first taste of hunting crows in good numbers in South Dakota in 1965 when I was 17 years old. I never kept track of the amount of crows shot until 1974.
It is indeed very comforting to have a passion for something for so many years.
That's a high mark, Bob. A lot of years and many successful hunts. More than most can imagine. It's one thing to talk about it and another to get it done. You know more than anybody the work it takes to put up those numbers, and after a certain age it just gets harder. Here's to easy set-ups and good hunting the rest of the season.
Randy, there are a lot of beatings that go along with those numbers; I don't get them all the time.
You are so right about it getting harder the older I get. I was worn out shooting 160 the other day whereas 10 years ago I wouldn't have felt any fatigue at all !