Westhunder
Please excuse typos, sent from my iPhone.
Background: I have a rather large dove field, and we shoot every other weekend for the first season. There are a lot of fields in my area, so we hurt the population pretty good.
While we are between seasons and hoping doves still migrate; showing up for 2/3/4th seasons, we have crows. Not a few. Hundreds and hundreds.
What I know about crows is, that they will eat just about anything. Obviously sunflowers, but bugs, road kill, corn, wheat, oats, but my question is how to keep them around so I can turn a rather annoying thing into a real afternoon of fun.
All the crow hunting I have ever done is with a fox pro and a shotgun, in deep cover shooting straight up. I know people shoot them from time to time with a rifle. However, crows are funny about humans. When you walk around the house or in the field, they scatter, much less fire off a rifle round. Which is fine and to be expected.
So question is. Can I decoy them? Post up in a area with a buddy, hidden, with a rifle and scope, do some calling with some decoys and get enough of them coming through to make it an enjoyable afternoon?
( I don’t think there are baiting laws on crows, I need to look into that, but they aren’t a federal migratory bird, so I’m thinking you can probably bait in addition to the sunflower field) maybe a corn pile too?
Or maybe you have a better idea.
Wes
While we are between seasons and hoping doves still migrate; showing up for 2/3/4th seasons, we have crows. Not a few. Hundreds and hundreds.
What I know about crows is, that they will eat just about anything. Obviously sunflowers, but bugs, road kill, corn, wheat, oats, but my question is how to keep them around so I can turn a rather annoying thing into a real afternoon of fun.
All the crow hunting I have ever done is with a fox pro and a shotgun, in deep cover shooting straight up. I know people shoot them from time to time with a rifle. However, crows are funny about humans. When you walk around the house or in the field, they scatter, much less fire off a rifle round. Which is fine and to be expected.
So question is. Can I decoy them? Post up in a area with a buddy, hidden, with a rifle and scope, do some calling with some decoys and get enough of them coming through to make it an enjoyable afternoon?
( I don’t think there are baiting laws on crows, I need to look into that, but they aren’t a federal migratory bird, so I’m thinking you can probably bait in addition to the sunflower field) maybe a corn pile too?
Or maybe you have a better idea.
Wes