Crow shooting thoughts

[Shopdog]

Great story,thanks for sharing.

22-250 here with RCBS 60G and a case full of IMR4831. The effort,gauged by how far the chunks land from ground zero. 6' is about my best.

[T-Bird]

You're better than I was at 12-14. I never did kill a crow with my pellet gun for all the reasons you cite but boy did I try. I killed doves, quail, squirrels, 1 rabbit, 1 duck (wild) and countless blue jays but never a crow. Don't think any of my friends did either.

[Three44s]

its so nice having Young folks around here!!!

Way to go Wufdog!!!!! i am dang glad your a shooter and loader. gives me hope!

Marko

He’s a caster as well and adds pizzazz around here with his activities and passing them on in his stories!

Three44s

[444ttd]

i think my first crow kill is around 35 years ago. i used my buddies 243 win and it was about 150+/-yards. the remains were one wing attached to the body(only 1/2 of body) and head. there was also a 3' pile of black feathers. i think i overkilled him. i have shot crows in 12, 16 and 20ga: 222 rem, 223 rem, 22-250ai, 22 short, long, long rifle and my 20 vartarg.

good story, by the way!!!!!!!

[Tar Heel]

Up here in North Carolina the crows are smarter. Walk outside with anything that remotely resembles a rifle and they leave the county. Fast like.

[panhed65]

Good story, reminds me of my first crow kill. not sure how old I was anymore, but had not gotten my first 22 so still pretty young, and had a daisy lever action bb gun, like a Winchester 94. tried sneaking up on them, but no luck. but there was a dead tree in the swamp by my house, crows always sat in it, and there was a small depression under it, so I started to lay there and cover myself with leaves. took a while, but I finally got one. a real trophy at my age.
Barry

[rockrat]

Man, when young, a few friends and I would go after the crows. Big roost not too far away and the farmers liked us willing to go after them.
A 40 crow day was pretty good and some days were a lot better. Roost is long gone, but boy, those were the days. We used shotguns with #2 shot duck loads as #4's would just rattle off them.

[Mr_Sheesh]

444ttd, nope you just used exactly enough gun. To make sure

[alfadan]

I got two with my 22 hornet last year. Nice and quiet but does a number on them.

[6.5 mike]

30-40 krag hi-wall, 200 gr lee pp'ed at 100 yds sitting on the range frame. Bang poof, took awhile for the feathers to quit falling.

[James Wisner]

This thread made me laugh.

So back in the 80"s our estemed elected persons in DC signed a treaty with Mexico that we would not shoot Mexican crows. They ment the crows down south by the border, but you can guess how that treaty came out.

So that put a damper on our Crow hunting up here in WA State. In my parents Gun Shop we used to reload LOTS of 22-250 ammo for persons shooting crows.
One day the local Game Warden stopped by and was in the shop, when a regular customer stopped by to pick up his ammo. He made a remark about how many crows he could shoot with that ammo. The Game Warden nicely told him he could not shoot Crows. The Warden was told by the customer that Treaty only concerned Mexican crows, the Warden agreed, but the law is the law. The regular simply said as he walked out the door. I take care of that, before I shoot the crow. I yell out Speak any English, if the Crow replys in Spainish I do not shoot it.
I thought the Game Warden was going to bust a gut laughing so hard.

Now we have a 4 month season for them in the fall only.

I did get around that for a while, in the spring before planting, I would go around to some farmers and get a written letter stating I was killing those Crows as they were depredating crops/newly planted seeds. I never got stopped but shot a lot of Crows in my younger years.

J Wisner

[panhed65]

Here in Pa, we have a crow season also, due to same treaty. Fri, Sat, and Sunday, with some time closed for breeding or some such, but you can shoot them if the are depredating, so I guess they are always doing that, never saw one that wasn't.
Barry

[Jim22]

Wolfdog - you tell a good story. Do you have any story tellers in your family? It sometimes gets passed down. From what I've seen it's as much fun for the teller as for the listener. I want to hear more.

[missionary5155]

Been thumping crows for 55 years with time out for 3 years and 22 days of hunting bigger game.
But few have been with a rifle. Have shot more called rows with flintlocks than rifles.
May have to alter that condition one day in the future.

[SoonerEd]

I've killed hundreds if not a couple thousand. Use to hunt Fort Cobb, Oklahoma where they roosted over the winter anywhere from 8 to 18 million each year. Hunted them with a 22lr as a kid and didn't get many that way. Did pop one along with two raccoons with a 17 hornet one day last year...they were snagging the corn out of my deer feeders.

[Iowa Fox]

When I was a kid the the county paid a bounty on crows and golfers. I got a few but not many crows, lots of golfers. Crows are a large contributing factor to the near extinction of pheasants in this state.

[Mr_Sheesh]

IDK how many crows I've killed, "All I could" is probably the best number I can give.

I remember going on a hunting trip after rockchucks, with crows and coyotes as happy secondary targets, with several rifles & ~6000 rounds in about 1968, we came back out of ammo. That was when I started thinking 3k rounds, per varminting rifle, was a minimum for brass, carry it ALL when you go

Our friend with a horse ranch was very happy that he didn't have to use paralytic poison on his entire huge ranch, and we were glad to help, didn't knock all the RCs down at any location, just 3/4 or so. A couple warm winters in a row cause huge population blooms, and he'd then lose far too many horses from all the new RC dens near water...

[alfadan]

When I was a kid the the county paid a bounty on crows and golfers. I got a few but not many crows, lots of golfers. Crows are a large contributing factor to the near extinction of pheasants in this state.

Forgive me if Im wrong, but if I kill all the golfers, wont they lock me up and throw away the key?

[Txcowboy52]

I love shooting crows especially long range with a rifle, but lately me and my beautiful bride of 40 years, have found a new way to have fun! We get all our camo on, I set up a few crow decoys and get the Foxpro ready, we sit under a bunch of big oak trees and call crows in. Lots of fun with a shotgun!!

[Mrlucky353]

Forgive me if Im wrong, but if I kill all the golfers, wont they lock me up and throw away the key?

Lol