my father and i always enjoyed it. where my folks live in MS, the crow population is anything but on a decline. not uncommon to see dozens at one time around their place. last time i visited them we went off behind their house a couple times but didn't have much luck. too windy, they wouldn't come in good and when they did they were right down in the trees. we made a pretty poor showing.
as an aside, once long ago - i was sitting stuck in school of course - my dad put the speed load feature of his 3" mag 20 A5 to good use and if i remember right, killed 13 with 14 shots and the last 9 shots were all singles. they were coming in so good and so fast he never had time to reload; just shoved individual rounds into the magazine. you get used to a speed load A5 and every other auto just seems like a really bad idea. in all fairness, most of the hunting we have here it's not a particularly useful feature any more except on vermin.
he said that was one thing he'd never eaten when he was a kid growing up and i was curious enough to try it last fall. it wasn't awful and in fact had no taste whatsoever except for salt and pepper. i wouldn't starve if that were all there were but i'd really prefer something else. for such a fair sized bird there's almost no meat on it. the actual meat part of the bird is very tiny. i think a dove has as much or more breast meat.
