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'.
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