Nest raiders need to be thinned out!

[Finlander]

Try to pass the word to all waterfowl and upland bird hunters to take up crow hunting for the fact that they eat twice as many duck eggs and upland bird eggs than all the hunters harvest each year. Just think how many more ducks and pheasents there would be if we could put an end to these nest raiding scavengers!

I try to do my part each year as this is a good way to tune up your spring goose hunting shoooting. Also in July the season opens again for crows and nothing better to tune up for the fall season than to hunt crows!

Give it a try!

[TheHogSeeker]

And those skunks, coyotes, and any other waterfowl eater!

[SalmonSlayer]

If anybody knows any good spots in the southwest metro, let me know. I'd love to take a few of them out. Just don't know where to go. (Or really anything else about crow hunting)

[Finlander]

Permission to property isn't that hard this time of year. Just tell the landowner you would like to take some crows out of there trees and you will pick up everything including dead crows when you leave. Just might get you onto the property in the fall!

[Stringerless!]

Agreed. You will not only be protecting waterfowl but songbirds. During the hatching season the majority of the crows diet is made up of baby birds. I am probably a little more tuned into this than most.I have racing pigeons and am always on the lookout for hawks. I can tell the alarm calls of many songbirds as my first warning system. During the spring the crows are silent. They will just perch and watch songbirds go to the nest. I have watched many carried off. I have 5 wood duck boxes and the wife watched crows take 7 out of 9 babies one year. Beleive me if I would have been home I would have gotten a ticket for unlawful discharge of a firearm in city limits ! Get out and get these suckers !

[SalmonSlayer]

Any suggestions on habitat to target. My Grandpa used to shoot them for the state on their research fruit farms and has an electronic call I could use, (are those legal?). Also, has anyone had any luck yet? Oh, and what the hell do you do with them after you shoot them, trash?

Thanks for helping a rookie out.

[Finlander]

Anyplace where you find them is a good place, but I have my best luck in the trees next to an open feild. The main thing is to get to your shooting spot undetected because they will avoid the area your in if they see you walk to that spot.

Yes it is legal to use electronic calls!

[SalmonSlayer]

Great, thanks for the help!

[SalmonSlayer]

Anybody have any luck so far?

[Stringerless!]

Went yesterday for the first time. Never shouldered the gun. Saw a few but none would come close. Owl decoy sitting out in the snow in an open field.3 crow dekes. Had a goshawk swoop into a tree and land about 15 feet from me. Was calling predators too. Nothing !

[Stringerless!]

Went today. Had one coming in locked up like a goose. Unloaded ! Missed ! Had to laugh out loud at myself. At least he was alone. I had the owl deke in the snow and 2 crows in the trees and one on the ground. Crows I saw were shying away till I took the dekes out of the trees and put one on the ground on its side like the owl was eating it. That is when the next one came straight in ! Started pouring so I left. Tomorrow !