Not sure where to put this post, so I’ll throw it in here! After chasing crows for a few years now and starting to get things figured out to put more on the ground, I’m just wondering if any IDO’ers have tried to knock a few down over the years? It just gives you one more reason to hit the woods, or field, to keep the blood pumping between deer and turkey season!
I seen the word Crow and was thinking this was a post about my X 
Never have went crow hunting but I know some guys that do and have a blast 
Not much experience here, but I have hunted them several times and had some good days. Sit still, camo up like you are turkey or coyote hunting, and be patient. Scouting helps. I call loud and long if I have to. Usually if you get some coming, they will continue. Now something I have never figured out exactly. Should I shoot the first bird that comes in, or wait for it to make a bunch of noise and pull in more????? I do know this. When you knock birds down, leave them in plain sight. Many advocate letting them flop around if they are not dead. Drives the rest of the murder crazy. When I was a kid I remember getting into deep XXXX with my neighbors when they figured out what was going on. I would kill a crow with my pellet gun, then hang him from a branch in plain sight. With in an hour or so, sometimes a hundred crows would be around and VERY noisy. They would not leave until I cleaned up all of the dead crows and removed them from sight. I thought this great fun, the neighbors were very annoyed. Come to think of it, I did a lot of FUN things that in the end annoyed my neighbors. LOL. To be a kid again.
I have read on crowbusters.com that you should always shoot the first crow because it is the scout crow and will warn the rest of crows around that there is danger. It has happened only once or twice.
I love chasing crows in March. I’m fairly redneck about it, my electronic caller is an old, beat-up boombox and my decoys consist of the crows I shoot. I run-and-gun, driving around and trying different spots – never spending too much time at any one spot.
I’ve come to learn that I should shoot at any crow that mistakenly flies into range. They rarely do it twice. The better the look they get at your set up, the less likely that they will swing in low enough for a shot.
I’ve also learned that it doesn’t pay to use cheap, low-base shells. Used to just grab some target loads and hope for the best…but it’s typically long-range shooting, so now I clean out my duck loads from the previous fall.
It’s fun. It’s hunting in the spring. And I dislike crows. I respect their smarts, but I dislike ’em otherwise.
Don’t try to eat them. I had a buddy try smoking some once (boy, were they hard to keep lite) – no, seriously, it tasted like @#$%.
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Don’t try to eat them. I had a buddy try smoking some once (boy, were they hard to keep lite) – no, seriously, it tasted like @#$%.
So I guess you’re proving that the old saying “you’re going to eat crow” does have some validity to it!
I’ve tried but can’t get em’ to come down closer than a couple hundred feet up.
And my goodness! look at what crows eat and how old they can get,, I’d rather eat a Northern!
Been doing the crows for many years now. With MN duckhunting as bad as it is, the crow is my newly designated waterfowl season. More shoot’in, more fun, and less work. Unlike ducks,.. they’re everywhere!!
I still use the run and gun method a little bit when time is short. Then i figured out they are like snow geese in a way. I was walking out of school one day when a steady string of about 4-500 flew over, and the next day at about the same time, give or take a few minutes, another solid steady string came flying over. So then i started putting pieces to the puzzle together and actually scouting for crows (sounds kinda stupid) and it has paid off great! Shot 44 in one spot along one path last weekend 
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