Crow hunting

[Star1pup]

Just getting into crow hunting seriously to help out a farmer.  My question is do you shoot the first one that comes to the call or wait until more come in?  My buddy blasts the first one and we might see no more come to the deeks and call.  I thought it might be better to wait until more come in if we can stay hidden and not busted by the first scout.

[highwayman]

i always shoot them as they come in. if they stop we just move a little. seems to work for me.

[Swift One]

Couple of schools of thought on that.  One thought is that the first couple to come in are the "scouts".  If they get waxed, then the rest of the flock wont come in.  The other thought is that you just shoot as they come in.  When sitting over a flyway in the AM, I shoot as they come in, more will eventually fly over.  When setting up in a non-flyway, I will generally let the first couple come in and circle or maybe even land.  It has been my experience that this will draw in other Crows in the area.

[Justin10mm]

When I get a good shot I take it. If they see their buddy fall, sometimes they will circle back for another pass.

[nova71]

I agree with swift one, we always let the first one (the scout) fly back and he brings the rest of them back  

I was testing a new crow call CD the other day and it was one with a fight between crows and hawks, I had two hawks circling before the crows ever showed up. thought I would see a good fight but it never happened... I guess they were chicken hawks

[Swift One]

If they see their buddy fall, sometimes they will circle back for another pass.

Very, very true. Especially if the crow is wounded and flopping around on the ground making noise.   No matter what approach you take to crow calling, I think that proper decoy set up and one of the decs being a motion dec is paramount.  My hunting success on crows went up when I started using decs on the stand.  My ability to keep the black devils in the area after the shooting begins went WAY up when I started using a motion crow decoy..........

[prairiedog555]

I would not call myself a superstitious man, but around here , NE Kansas, there are 4 indian reservations, my wife being a registered Native American, and they believe it is very bad to kill a crow or raven. 
Do what you want, but I have enough problems already.  I will stick with shooting Coyotes.
Actually as I remember it is illegal to shoot a crow in Nevada, the reasoning is that they are natures garbage collectors.

[Star1pup]

I would not call myself a superstitious man, but around here , NE Kansas, there are 4 indian reservations, my wife being a registered Native American, and they believe it is very bad to kill a crow or raven. 
Do what you want, but I have enough problems already.  I will stick with shooting Coyotes.
Actually as I remember it is illegal to shoot a crow in Nevada, the reasoning is that they are natures garbage collectors.

Here in Ohio the crows really devistate corn crops in the spring.

[Justin10mm]

"registered" Native American

Were can I sigh up? Them taxes are getting high.

[TheCoachZed]

I always try to shoot the scouts as well. But I'm far from an expert at crow hunting.

I like to use an owl decoy, and when I move spots, I always take the dead crows with me to fill out my spread some more.

[bulletstuffer]

I only shoot them when I can

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