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Post by Longhunter1750 on Jan 29, 2023 11:26:05 GMT -5
About a dozen of them following me around yesterday while I was calling coons, got this one in the neck at about 80 yards with the .22mag. They left me alone after that, hate the damned egg stealing bastards.  |
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Post by contender on Jan 29, 2023 12:46:49 GMT -5
I too enjoy a dislike of those black, noisy, pack running, shiny stealing, egg suckers that seem to disappear at the first sound of gunfire.
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Post by jfs on Jan 29, 2023 13:03:38 GMT -5
Good shootin..................  I remember walking the Pennsylvania woods right past a flock of crows and went back and got my 223 rifle... I swear that those crows knew what I carried and flew away 
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Post by magnumwheelman on Jan 29, 2023 13:38:58 GMT -5
They seem to know what a rifle is… if I’m creeping around the corner of the house, or a farm building, they see any of the rifle or shotgun, they are gone… guessing that skilled revolver shot, threw them for a loop
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Post by jeffh on Jan 29, 2023 16:41:46 GMT -5
They seem to know what a rifle is… if I’m creeping around the corner of the house, or a farm building, they see any of the rifle or shotgun, they are gone… guessing that skilled revolver shot, threw them for a loop And they know the difference between a broom or rake and a rifle. |
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Post by leftysixgun on Jan 29, 2023 17:32:24 GMT -5
Oh man, Im out numbered, lol.....I think quite highly of crows. They are awfully fun to hunt! Some of the best fun while holding a shotgun.....calling them in timber holding a 17HMR. Still waiting to get one close with a SA.
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Post by Ken O'Neill on Jan 29, 2023 17:52:40 GMT -5
Paco Kelly wrote a great article in the 1996 issue of The Sixgunner, "Lifes lucky shots", a segment of which tells of him shooting a crow on the wing with his handgun while hunting with the Governor of Virginia. Old-time HHI members, dig out your copy and read it again!
Longhunter 1750, great shooting!
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Post by potatojudge on Jan 29, 2023 21:04:00 GMT -5
They seem to know what a rifle is… if I’m creeping around the corner of the house, or a farm building, they see any of the rifle or shotgun, they are gone… guessing that skilled revolver shot, threw them for a loop There was a study done years ago on this. Crows can differentiate between people because that helps them identify threats. Humans can’t tell crows apart because why would we need to? |
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Post by Longhunter1750 on Jan 29, 2023 21:24:46 GMT -5
Oh man, Im out numbered, lol.....I think quite highly of crows. They are awfully fun to hunt! Some of the best fun while holding a shotgun.....calling them in timber holding a 17HMR. Still waiting to get one close with a SA. Used to hunt a lot of crows, still have a couple dozen decoys and a garden owl around here somewhere. They are very intelegent birds, but they will drive a coyote caller crazy. |
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Post by leftysixgun on Jan 29, 2023 21:41:02 GMT -5
Oh man, Im out numbered, lol.....I think quite highly of crows. They are awfully fun to hunt! Some of the best fun while holding a shotgun.....calling them in timber holding a 17HMR. Still waiting to get one close with a SA. Used to hunt a lot of crows, still have a couple dozen decoys and a garden owl around here somewhere. They are very intelegent birds, but they will drive a coyote caller crazy. Boy, they sure will! Ive called in many crows while hand calling for coyotes! |
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Post by kevshell on Jan 29, 2023 22:53:08 GMT -5
When I was a kid I bought an Olt crow call. I could have them come in from the horizon and dive bombing the house. We planted a garden and they would pick off the seedlings. The house was 50-60 yards from the garden and those crows learned to watch for the bathroom window. Open that window 1/2" and they were gone. Them they wiped out my whole sweet corn crop while I was at work. Then I waged war. I got about 15lb of shelled corn and mixed it with pancake syrup and powdered rat poison. Problem solved.
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Post by contender on Jan 29, 2023 22:55:58 GMT -5
My dislike for them started when I was a teen & trying to stalk deer. They'd come in & bust me with their noise & such. So, I began a life-long path of shooting them whenever I could do so legally.
I've made several handgun shots where the crow THOUGHT it was safe to stay in the tree or whatever. And when I break out the calls,, I slip in a few good wing shots,, just to make me chuckle. The few who THOUGHT it would be fun to try & raise their young on my gun range,, exhibited very poor judgement. Handgunned a few then too. Or the few who didn't see a gun in my hands,, only to discover a handgun is also lethal.
Pretty much,, anytime I get a reasonable chance,, I'll bust a crow.
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Post by JM on Jan 29, 2023 23:30:10 GMT -5
Nice shot!
We have Ravens in this area.
Saw 3 on my neighbors lawn the other day. One was brown with some white wing feathers. Never seen one that wasn't black.
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Post by jack on Jan 30, 2023 3:54:23 GMT -5
Nice shot! We have Ravens in this area. Saw 3 on my neighbors lawn the other day. One was brown with some white wing feathers. Never seen one that wasn't black. Once upon a time, I had one of those great old 45 rpm record player calls with the giant megaphone speaker that weighed two or three tons - One of the records was crows fighting owl. We would drive around the winter corns stubble fields till we found a large flock, then set up nearby in ambush and let her rip. As long as you let the first "Scout" crow come by without spooking him, the whole murder would come in and you would have some really fast and furious wing shooting sometimes for well over a half hour. Big fun! One particular time we shot a murder that had a half dozen "piebald" I guess you would call them. They all had varying amounts of white splotches on them, and they were lighter in color - more brownish than the normal jet black. It was the only time we ever saw that. Locan DNR guy was just as amazed by them and he took two with him,but we never heard anything back from him about them. |
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Post by bula on Jan 30, 2023 8:26:07 GMT -5
I've only seen full shiny black crows and ravens. The piebald interest me. I've shot crows on flyway between roost and county dump. Other time snuck into a crow/owl squabble.
shot down 3 before the knew something was wrong. One time, backpacking, awoke to a crow/owl fight and snuck on in and just watched. The crows mis-judged, not all the owls were perched near their roost. Two late returning owls went thru the murder of crows and shredded in mid-air, half a dozen crows.
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