Eatin' Crow (literally)

I don't know about your area, but around here crows are a big carrier of the West Nile virus. If I shot one I wouldn't go near it.

Also I think they eat carrion and trash.

i've seen crows often enough perched on the roadside eating something that has been ground into little more than a grease spot on the road... i've seen them eating skunks, too. add to it the west nile threat (huge around these parts), and they get treated much like a prairie dog.

ick.... crow... naaa, i've seen what they eat! theres a simple solution to your problem though, just use enough gun so that when hit, mr crow will just explode. no bird left = no waste of "natures gift"

That's where the old "Eat Crow" adage comes from. I'd put it right up there with root canal's and getting kicked in the crotch!

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I didn't know that hunting crows was regulated via international treaty (with Mexico).
I had thought that they were vermin.

You might be a redneck if...

I read the Little House series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and I recall reading that one time "Pa" had to go thin out the crows attacking their crops with a shotgun. And being that food was a little short anyway, "Ma" inventively used the crows to make chicken pot pie...or in this case crow pot pie? Supposedly Pa even asked "where did you get chicken?"

But if they are carrying diseases and such... maybe it would be best not to eat them afterall?

I recall reading in some survival manual (SAS I think) that you should boil the carrion eating birds 1st before roasting them in order to kill anything that could harm you.

And...if you are at significant altitude, unpressurized boiling will not kill many bacteria.

Dutch oven or such with weight on lid will get the temp up.
May also put lid in orbit.

If crow around, should be better eatin around also.

Sam

Shot a crow over in Central Oregon with my 270. 130gr Hornady SP traveling at 3140fps. Wasn't enought left to eat.

ZM

At the time I wasn't aware they were "protected".

Now if we could just remove the protections on seagulls...........

ZM

Back in the late 1960s or early 1970s, the US signed some sort of migratory bird treaty. It was not until after the treaty was signed and ratified that it was discovered that the biological description of the protected bird included--unintendedly--the crow. Another governmental Oopsie...

So, the only legal way you can shoot a crow is when you're protecting a farm crop. They're a problem for corn and pecan farmers.

Art

Art, we have a set season here in SC.

Hmmm, good, Al. Maybe there's been some modification in the treaty? I dunno; probably I'm behind the curve--as ususal.

Or is it possibly tied to "crop season", coinciding with the time of likely predation on farmers' crops? I guess the Wildlife Agency folks oughta know.

Art

We have a long season (shotgun only, booo) on crows here in WI as well. Ravens are protected. Crow (and raven I assume) are all dark (very dark) meat, really not too bad if you skin, remove all fat, stew them long enough and then roast for a short time with onions, garlic, maybe some nice crumb stuffing, and plenty of bacon strips over the top of the whole mess. Of course, you could leave the crow entirely out of such a recipe and not miss it.

There's a season on them here in PA, too.

What do you do with a dead crow?...






Put it next to another dead crow.