410's and crows

[plumberroy]

  I set in the back yard and smoked 3 crows with a little old H&R 410  and winchester AA's 2.5" #8 shot  3 shots , three crows 
Roy

[Rustyinfla]

  Nice shooting. You must have out smarted them pretty good.

[myarmor]

The crows see us coming a mile away at the farm. They know it's an active fire zone down there
Sounds like you had some fun poping off a couple though. Enjoy your 410.




-Aaron

[plumberroy]

The crows see us coming a mile away at the farm. They know it's an active fire zone down there
-Aaron

I doubt if anyone around here has shot at them in a long time. a single mom lived here before me. the neighbor on one side has a couple of air rifles and the other neighbor doesn't shoot but neither have a problem with it. they even seem glad to have some one who does around. I was setting in a white plastic chair out back by the garden with kacki shorts and a brown tee shirt on . I only shot at single birds so I may get to shoot a couple more times before they get smart
Roy

[Rustyinfla]

  I've heard a lot of stories about crows and how smart they are. I heard once that if you catch one and make a pet out of it they can even be taught to talk like a parrot. I'm not sure about that bu by watching people try to hunt them something must be up for sure.

[AtlLaw]

they can even be taught to talk like a parrot.

This is true!     Haven't you ever heard "quoth the raven, NEVERMORE!"   

[snakeman]

AltLaw,
 I seem to recall the authors name being Edgar Allen Poe.

I love to shoot crows. Most of the time we end up shooting them in the corn stubble with .223's. It's kinda like shooting p-dogs.


snakeman

[AtlLaw]

True, but this Poe feller stole it from me!   
Poe folk always stealin from me... 

 

[PHATINJUN]

Them crows are very smart around where I hunt also most have to be taken with the 204 22-250 or 220swift as you can't get within 300yrds of them around here but they ain't hard to see when you hit one they go pooofff with black feathers floatin. kurt

[plumberroy]

Them crows are very smart around where I hunt also most have to be taken with the 204 22-250 or 220swift as you can't get within 300yrds of them around here but they ain't hard to see when you hit one they go pooofff with black feathers floatin. kurt

Kurt I can play that game too I got a savage 22-250 but they haven't been shot at much here. and I'm in a flyway I just sat under the pine tree and when they crossed the fence over the garden I smoked them    2 landed right at my feet and the third one about 10 foot out.  didn't know a 410 or 28 was a lazy mans gun did ya..  set up where the birds are coming to you shoot when their in range and they land at you feet 
Roy

[tykempster]

Hahahaha that was actually hilarious AtlLaw, old people can be funny on purpose!

[AtlLaw]

Old?  WHo you calling OLD there boy!?  I prefer to be addressd by my native name: "one who has been tempered in the fires of experience..." or, in the native tounge, Owhbtitfoe, pronounced Wah-bitit-fo.   

[rickt300]

A great way to lure crows into easy range is to lay an egg out in the open.  They will zero in like they are lazer guided.  I used to have a white "Worry" egg made from stone and it fooled and caused the demise of many crows before I sold it on ebay for $300.

[Rustyinfla]

  Wouldn't the wooden ones they make to put in a hen's nest be just as good?

[rickt300]

Well you could even use a regular chicken egg, easily available and cheap.  The problem becomes killing the crow before he breaks your egg.

[Dinny]

Hello everyone,
  I have been blessed with the opportunity to hunt in Germany for 1 1/2 years while I was stationed there.  I learned a great crow hunting set-up there.  Just take out 3 crow decoys along with a small animal hide like a rabbit.  In this case, we used a domestic house cat hide that was tanned.  *I can see the replies coming after that statement* Place 2 decoys around the hide with one of them right next to the hide, as if eating it.  Blow on a crow call a few times and watch them come.  Of course this only works when crows are within hearing distances. We would drive around the fields and find crows sifting through the corn and then set-up several hundred yards away. We preferred to set the decoys in a clear field without any standing crops and then hide in an adjoining field that had standing corn.  The trick is to wait and not shoot at the first one that comes into range. Let many of them get close. In one day two of us got 6 crows each within about 2 hours and that included set-up time. We were using 12ga Beretta and Humbertus O/U shotguns. I think a semi-auto would have been better, but the Germans don't use them as much as we do.

~Dinny

[PHATINJUN]

As for a shameless plug Cheetos work great around here but these are suburban Crows. Put 3 decoys amongst some scattered Cheetos in the snow. Ain't nothin like a Crow going POOFF @400 yrds with a 25/06 Kurt

[myarmor]

Some good feedback, I never thought about an egg ...or much less a Cheeto in the snow
Around here the egg deal should work just fine. I know crows are almost always attracted to shiney or bright things. I will try it on a fence post, that ort to get there attention.
 Can't tell you how many crows I have seen flying off with empty (and some times not so empty ) chip bags in parking lots..
Had a fells I knew of that tamed one, LOVED shiney things. Quarters drove him mad

[rickt300]

A bunch of years ago I laid a big egg on the bank of a river and positioned myself high up on the bank to wait for results.  I looked down for the egg and it was gone!  I put another egg out and watched the egg more closely and foung a huge water snake liked eggs too.  I fed that snake three eggs in total, it was neat watching him swallow them.

[jeepmann1948]

Rick,
 Ifn you had used one of them white rock eggs for the third one it would have made a heck of an exit wound if you get my drift

[rickt300]

for some reason I didn't want to shoot the snake but he was a whopper.