We kill them here by the hundreds each fall when pecans begin to open and we dig our peanut fields. They move in by the hundreds per drove and can decimate a field of freshly dug peanuts in a couple of days. Peanuts have to field dry several days in the sun before combining them and are very susceptible to predation. They particularly like pecans because they can alight on the tall tree linbs and feel safe as they pillage and plunder. They are only acting like crows and I understand that but there's no reason not to protect one's crop.
We use FoxPro callers, decoys and Mojo Crows at first light when they leave the roosts and come to the fields and orchards. Extra full chokes and 1 1/4 oz. no. 4's are our load. Not unusual to kill over a hundred in three hours after dawn. Not much use in going back to the same vicinity for awhile, they wise up quickly.
No noticable decline in the numbers around here after maybe twenty years of shooting them. Certain times of the year there will be flocks (murders) of crows numbering 4-5 hundred each.
