Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: huntertrapper on December 22, 2007, 11:47:34 pm
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anyone hunt crows with their tree branch and twig? i plan to hunt on the ground using just a brush and branch blind. im off school for christmas. and plan to do some huntin and trappin. anyway. some tips or ideas if'n you guys have killed or hunted some. i plan to huntem with a flint head and my cousin is using his dumn pump, he aint got the bug yet
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It'll be a challenge-crows have x-ray vision and ESP.
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Here in the mountains of WV it's sometimes close quarters for crow shooting if ya do it in the woods instead of fields, coves or saddles are good setup locations, never shot one with a bow ,, shot at a few and said that if I ever hit one that I would eat it ;)
wvflintknapper
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Good luck with that! :o
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thanks starts friday so ill go out and try er out
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My suggestion would be to find a road kill and drag it in the woods, set up a brush blind and pray to the gods
because ya will still get busted, turkeys got nothing on crows when it comes to the smarts the dang
critters are unnatural.
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yeah i got some dead coons and carp and muskrats and a fox from trapping and bow fishing i plan to set out there. im gonna try soem mouth calls too. i aint out there just to kill. i want to get one for some fletchings and maybe have a taste bu im out there to have fun and be in the wild.
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Crow feathers dont make very good fletchings. They are to soft, I tried it.
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oh well thanks.ill use the feathers for something else then thanks.
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I've hunted Crows with a rifle. You get one shot, then no more crows.
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I think seagulls would be easier. ;)
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Crows can tell what you are hunting with and seem to stay out of that range!! ;)
Leave the guy with the gun at home and maybe you can confuse them with the bow!!! :D
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I accidently shot a dumb one with a bow one time. They man that leases our land to grow soybeans had plowed one of the fields the day before and I had been out stump shooting. On my way back, I was cresting a hill and saw four walking around grabbing worms, so I dropped down and crawled a little closer. When I got too close, three of them took off. I raised up and drew at the same time and let the arrow go. The fourth bird had his mind on worms and waited too long. I will admit, it was a lucky shot. I have his claws hanging on one of my quivers.
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Do you think Crow tastes like Chicken???? HMmmmmm
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I usually marinate mine in a good Merlot. ;D
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I think I would just slug down that good merlot and THEN try to figure out what to do with the crow.....hmmmmmmmm
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The last batch of wine I made was almost twenty gallons, so I can afford to use some to marinate with.
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Yep, Chicken!! Everything tastes like Chicken ;)
wvflintknapper
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If you can shoot with a Gillie suit on it will help be sure to wear the head gear as it completes the job of eliminates the outline they seem to pick this up 1st I have had good shoots sitting in a open shelled soybean field with just a owl decoy and a mouth call this was with a shotgun and they were flying.
But the Gillie suit should still help with a ground blind also sure would be quieter than a 12GA.
They taste more like liver but if you soak them well and drain the water often they can be marinated with soy and canola oil and a small amount of sesame oil (a drop or so) and crushed black pepper maybe a little orange juice and they will grill OK.
I have also cooked them in a sweet & sour recipe in the dutchoven also, it ain't venison Backstrap but as I see it if you shoot it you should eat it.
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im not much into camo. i probbly wear a camo shirt but for pants maybe a brown or black pants.
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That sounds purty tasty Grant :), I've heard of eatin crow before and have thought of trying it, but have yet to get one - their sneaky little bidder's of bad tiding's ;D. Think if I was to get serious about it - I'd head out with camo and a 22 mag and wouldn't expect more that one crow per shootin :)..
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If you ant much on camo ,you will have to something to cover yourself,cause them buggers can see like you wouldn't believe.No cover ,no camo and I am with Ryan,good luck with that. :)
Pappy
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When I got my crow, it was with a 264 Winchester Magnum at about 280 yards. The crosshairs of the scope completely covered him up. I was accused of using luck to kill that crow. Maybe it was luck. It was in my father in laws pecan orchard. He had me hang him up in a tree to keep his brethren out of the pecans. If I hunted them again, I would find a way to eat them. I agree that there should be a good reason to kill anything.
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We shoot lots of crows, with shotguns. ;) You want a challenge, try shooting them out of the air with a rifle. ;D You don't hit many, but it sure is fun. On the occasion that you do hit one you have stories to tell.
If you put on some camo and use rabbit distress calls you can get them into range fairly often. They have an amazing ability to get out of the way of arrows. >:( Come to think of it, I think Eddie is part crow. ;D Justin
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You could always get under a fabric blind until they come in.
Jess
I agree,, I was raised that if ya ain't gonna eat it , then don't kill it just to be killing something,,, Even as a kid 6-7 yrs old, we would hunt ground squirrels with our pellet rifles and bring them home and Dad would help us skin them and fry them up :) Never did shoot the birds.............I have ate most all types of animal from WV except crow, fox and bobcat, would try crow or cat but ain't eating no fox,, anyone every try Fox?
wvflintknapper
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I remember a film in german TV. An old German, living in what is now Russia, still had the knowledge to catch crows with a special trap.
He even said its a great challenge to get them.
He had a big net with a steelwirearound divided in the middle lying flat with a cadaver in the middle. When the crows came the 2 halfs of the net sprung together by a feather mechanism, manual or automatically I don`t remember.Thats what I can say about this.
Don`t know if it may be of interest, but you see there are ways and you will have a giveb way.
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flintknapper i have eaten fox before. to be truthful wasnt great but not terrible. im pretty simple about things. I just cut off some backstrap and fried it on the skillet in butter. i could have cooked it better.
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Interesting thread....wouldn't hunt crows unless they were good eatin'. Never tried it.
Seems to me you could bait crows in a similar way to baiting deer (with an automatic feeder)....if it's legal in your area. Or you could just sit down and start knappin'...or eat a sandwich. Them buggers are curious.
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May be this helps... www.kirchner-raddestorf.de/jagd/hege/bau.htm
Then scroll to "Fallen" and look for "Krähenfang". You`ll find a detailled text , sorry in german, but the drawings make it clear.
Regards
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UWE,
Is that a crow trap? Do you cover the frame with chicken wire (or something)? How do the crows enter? Please translate........ :-\
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I've been reading Howard Hill's book Hunthing The Hard Way and in the chapter on hunting bighorn sheep he
relates a story of how crows can't count past 2, so ya need 3 people, when ya spot a crow 2 people keep his
attention and the 3rd makes a stalk on him. And it don't surprise me one bit that a crow can count to 2, heck I have relatives
that can't count that high ;D
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UWE,
Is that a crow trap? Do you cover the frame with chicken wire (or something)? How do the crows enter? Please translate........ :-\
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Yes, thats it! If there are any translation problems, ask me and I`ll try to help ya!
Regards!]
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I've been reading Howard Hill's book Hunthing The Hard Way and in the chapter on hunting bighorn sheep he
relates a story of how crows can't count past 2, so ya need 3 people, when ya spot a crow 2 people keep his
attention and the 3rd makes a stalk on him. And it don't surprise me one bit that a crow can count to 2, heck I have relatives
that can't count that high ;D
i've been interested in ornithology all life long and there is a lot of bull being told about missing inteligence of birds: catch a crow, put the crow in a big voliere, put in that cage a glass of water that is high so she cannot reach the water. when the crow gets thursty it will check out the scene for a bit and than start throwing stones in the tube until waterlevel comes up, than the bird drinks.
if three people enter a blindfold and two leave again and one stays in, birds can't tell the difference; but crows could more likely then eagles!
maybe you guys should try that on turkeys (if it works you owe me the tailfeathers ;D ;D ;D )
cheerio, frank
ps: i'm a musicain, i can count up to 4.
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I dont care what anyone says, crows have got to be one of the smartest birds alive, if not the smartest. If you go out and build a blind and take 3 guys out and 2 leave, the bird has already outsmarted you. 2 guys wasted a lot of time to try to get one bird. >:D Justin
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Yea but now ya can say yer smarter than a crow ::)
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