Crow hunting

[123fish]

Good info. Don't ever think for a second that hunters are going to wipe out the crow population. They are way, way too smart for that. West Nile Virus has killed more crows than hunters ever will and there are still too many of them.

[ChompChomp_YANK]

DA-CHISE great article, makes me want to go out and kill some more!!

[chuckwagon]

hey there,

looking forward to this season will be my first to try for crows. have read and read about them and hunting them now i need to just go and do it. if anyone wants an extra gun send me a message [email protected]

[Neighbor_guy]

I am 2 for 3 from my rural front yard. In my bathrobe for the 1st one of the year. Not exactly hunting....

Go get 'em boys.

[SnoManX]

So do you guys mostly use shotguns and get them while they are flying or rifles and wait till they land? The first I heard about this was last weekend at the bar...but need another sport until turkeys!

[52luge]

Heres what happened to one of crows I left on my porch. I left it and went in the house and when I looked out he window, it was on the ground. So I put it back and waited and this little guy came out and dragged it back growling the whole time.

As far as eating them, I have taken the breasts, soaked them in Italian salad dressing, wrapped them with bacon and onion and grilled them to medium rare. Belive it or not, they are really good. We had a bunch of poeple over for a game feed and every one raved at how good they were, until they found out they were crow.

52luge

[shogun]

What kind of calls do you guys use? distress calls or simply crow imitations? Or all of the above including owls etc? Anyone use a mouth/reed call? where do you get your owl decoys? Are there other types of decoys you can use?

[ChompChomp_YANK]

I have a fox pro digital caller with about 10 different crow sounds. The best sound for me is the fighting crows. I have 3 different ones owl/crow fight, hawk/crow fight and crows on crows. I have 1 owl decoy and about a doz. crow decoys. Alot of the big sporting good stores carry owl/crow decoys. I have been sick for 5 days. I hope to get out later this week there has been alot of crow activity going on.

[Fish&Fowl]

 Originally Posted By: 52luge

Belive it or not, they are really good. We had a bunch of poeple over for a game feed and every one raved at how good they were, until they found out they were crow.

52luge

I hope you removed all things that could be used as a weapon before you told them!

[ChompChomp_YANK]

I got out with a buddy of mine this morning for a little crow shoot em up. We had a pair of red tails dive bomb the decoys, they ended up landing in the tree next to the owl decoy. They stayed around for about a half an hour just squakin like crazy I think it helped pull in a few extra crows with all the extra camotion going on. We ended up with 8 for this mornings efforts. hope to get out again this weekend. Anybody else been out !!

[demonjigger]

can't hunt crows on wma's.

[demonjigger]

ever take guests along. I'd love to go. I have been shooting them with a .204, only get one at a time. I have had trouble in recent years trying to shot gun them 'cause they send a scout and after he/she's dead, the rest stay away.

I have killed 20+ out the window of my house over the deer feed. The deer don't even run off when I shoot now. They seem indifferent, smell the dead crows but doesn't bother the whitetails. Kinda cool.

There isn't any usable meat left on them after the V-max connects! My best day was 9 out of a flock of 16. they kept coming back to see where their pals went.