Crow call

I need a new crow call. The two I have are wore out and high pitched. Lots of options on the net and they are all inexpensive. I just want a good mouth call. Any suggestions before I roll the dice?

I’ld rank a Darrell Gibson call up there with my Dog Breath calls. Probably about 40ish for a crow call, but the tones of his calls a great. Plastic calls I see very little difference in.

I’ve never had much luck with a crow calls as locator calls. Not sure if there are just so many crows in the area’s that I hunt that a crow call is just to normal for them or what. The best locator call I’ve found is a Old wood duck call. I found this out one year when I was hunting turkey’s near a small creek with lots of beaver dams. I noticed every time a wood duck would call the toms would shock gobble like crazy. I have used a wood duck call every since as a locator call and it has worked Great.

If the crow call is for hunting crows and not used as a locator call for Turkey’s disregard my email

Thanks Randy. I just ordered one of his short range calls.

NOT for turkey hunting. I am an enemy of the crow because they need enemies.

suzuki wrote:

NOT for turkey hunting. I am an enemy of the crow because they need enemies.

Good man!

My cabin birds are in for the shock of their soon to be terminated lives when they hear the “new sound”.

suzuki wrote:

Thanks Randy. I just ordered one of his short range calls.

NOT for turkey hunting. I am an enemy of the crow because they need enemies.

I kind of thought that after I replied. With 2 weeks of turkey hunting coming up, I’ve got turkey hunting on the brain. You go ahead and kill all those crows you can. I hate those birds.

I don’t take nearly enough and hardly consider myself a “crow hunter” but I take some and they need some weedin-out at the cabin. I’m pretty good at calling. Used to use electronics way back and learned to blow all those calls. My frantic crow brings them in every time but sounds creepy!

suzuki wrote:

My frantic crow brings them in every time but sounds creepy!

There IS something about predator calling that, in more reflective moments, HAS caused me to question my own sanity. I mean, really, the question must be asked: How long can a guy really consider himself to be “just a regular guy” when you’re sitting in the frozen woods, in full camo, with an AR platform and a shotgun in your lap, all the while manipulating a device that makes a sound like a rabbit being frightfully abused by an imprisoned outlaw motorcycle gang?

But since it’s Friday, and since you didn’t ask, here’s my “I can’t believe a crow call works like that” story.

I had just gotten an eCaller and the next weekend I was going down to SW Minnesota to pheasant hunt. We were in the farm yard sorting out our gear the next morning and my dad saw the new eCaller.

“You bought one of those? How does it work?”

So I took it out of the box and set it on the hood of my truck and proceeded to show him the bells/whistles and the various sounds of things dying.

Then I get to crow calls. “Well here’s one that sounds like a giant crow fight. Probably like they’re battling an owl or something.”

And from a shelter belt a half mile away I saw it. Like a squadron of bombers lifting off to bomb Dresden, the crows launched the Mother of all Attacks. Headed straight for us.

“No freaking way,” says I.

“Yeah. They can’t really be coming here because of that call? Can they?” Says dad.

“No way. Coincidence. It can’t work that way.” I said. Sounding a little less sure as the Soul Chicken Squadron closed the gap at roughly the speed of sound.

“Yeah, no way would they fly right… at… a… farm… Sh!t. Shotguns!” Orders dad.

At this point my uncle Mark gets out of his truck and sees the mad scramble to get guns. “What the…”

“Crows! 12 o’clock high!”

30 of them came right over the top of us at treetop level. I didn’t even get to my shotgun. Dad jacked 3 in his 16 gauge and dropped one out front and one behind. Which is really f#ck!ng irritating when you think about it, unless you think you can do better than 2/3 on a flock of crows flying past at 50 MPH. Good luck.

Uncle Mark shook his head after quiet had resumed and his #1 lab made two terrific retrieves of the victims. Which was kind of funny in that the dog, I honestly think, had the most terrific, “WTF look” on her face the whole time. She was duty bound to go and get them, but she looked pretty convinced that she was going to have to find us a nice place in the country to spend our remaining years.

“Way to be ready, Geniuses.”

“Well, it’s not supposed to work that damn well, now is it?”

Grouse

I kid you not I was introduced to an e-caller the same way. My driveway in the city. Crows came out of nowhere when my buddy turned it on. Unbelievable.
We set up some pretty amazing crow shoots with that e-caller the next couple of years. I bought one that didnt work very well then just died. I have just been using mouth calls ever since. Or occasionally just my mouth.