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I am interested in trying some Crow Hunting. Does anyone have info on how to get started?
I went on Google and coild not find any info regarding Hunting.
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  These and some crow decoys, and a call is all you'll need laddie. November 1st to early spring is our season in Missouri - so I'll have wait. Now to cook them! Crockpot stuffed with crow, some winter root veggies, crusty bread and hard cider. Yum, fit for a king!
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Yummie indeed :rolleyes: .
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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Uncle Ed, search under "Rook Shooting," thats the thing to do!
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CROWBUSTERS.COM SHOULD HELP! ALSO CROW HAVE A SEASON AND CAN ONLY BE HUNTED IN THE GIVEN DATES YOU CAN LONGER USE A RIFLE TO SHOOT THEM IN OHIO ONLY SHOTGUNS. CHECK YOUR STATE REGULATIONS.
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Lowell, that's a mighty fine look'n piece o' wood on that .22 RF. Uncle Ed, This will date me some, but, once was a time that I took a small metal Craftsman tool box, the kind that is about 24" wide x 12" deep that had a tray in the top and after throwing away the tray installed an 8 track tape player powered by a 12volt wet cell Yuasa motorcycle battery from a CB450 and a two small weatherproof outdoor speakers with cords & bannana plugs. I used Johnny Stewart tapes of a bunch of crows attacking a great horned owl and also one of a dying woodpecker [that one also worked for varmints as well as crows]. That 'rig' combined with a rubber great horned owl decoy hoisted up through a tree on a telescoping pole along with a few crow deeks we sometimes clipped to the nearby trees' limbs made for great morning shoots. We had one odd crow deek that had no means of attaching it to anything so we would always put that one on the ground. One morning a red-tailed hawk came swooping in and grabbed it. We let him go out of sight with his prize and had a good laugh about it, having hated that decoy for a very long time as being worthless, but not so much as to actually throw it away. Anyway, when shooting crows be sure you shoot the first one as it is the 'scout' and if you miss it will tell the others and you had just as well take your set down and go somewhere else as there won't be any more coming. Kill the scout and you have some fun on the way. That's been my experience. I traded the home-made portable crow set-up/varmint calling apparatus for a Ruger No 1 w/26" bbl in .244 Rem when the No 1 was very first introduced, a three or four digit serial number on that one. It was a while ago. BTW, the only crow I've eaten has been in the figurative sense, so you gotta rely on Mr. Lowell for that .. just be careful that you don't get 'rooked'.  :p 
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First, scout a lot to find a concentration of the birds. Look for the large migratory flocks in the winter after Christmas. You will need the normal camoflage/blinds and a couple dozen decoys. Sometimes an owl decoy helps - I used to have a Great Horned Owl (stuffed) that worked well). But the Feds will get overly excited about that sort of decoy now. From there it is much like duck hunting. Set up a blind, put out the decoys and do a little calling. Try to kill their scout bird and use it with the owl. If you can get them riled up about the owl killing some crows they will sometimes ignore gunshots for a while, making for great shooting. Six and seven shot work just fine. I got into a couple of large migratory flocks of several hundred birds in Pennsylvania years ago and had great shooting. I don't know what the season is where you live. It is a Federal reg tied to a treaty between USA, Mexico and Canada. I don't know if electronic calls are legal.
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CROWBUSTERS.COM SHOULD HELP! ALSO CROW HAVE A SEASON AND CAN ONLY BE HUNTED IN THE GIVEN DATES YOU CAN NO LONGER USE A RIFLE TO SHOOT THEM IN OHIO ONLY SHOTGUNS. CHECK YOUR STATE REGULATIONS.
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...and please, don't blarst 'em when they have treed and owl or hawk - just sit back and enjoy the harassment.
I have taken a pass on the ol' black guard, because of West Nile.
Think that has passed and they're up-to full strength now...so go and pop only a few.
Btw, that Kimber is leaning against the olden crow tree in Glenthorne woods, leaves are covering up my butt print.
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My father used to shoot them with a scoped Remington .222. When you hit em right, he says, they would evaporate into a black cloud.
Those were the good old days.
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