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The shotgun plug thread got me wondering how many of you actually hunt crows. I mean actively hunt them for sport, pest control, or food:barf:. I love the sport of crow hunting. It is almost an art form. I enjoy duck hunting now and then, and I respect a person who can call a duck, but I'll respect you all the more if you can call a crow with a mouth call.

I do a fair job with a Hammerin' Crow call. I forget who makes it, but it is a green plastic call. I can imitate alot of different crow sounds, but my standbye is a distress call. My buddies give me hell because it sounds alot like a rabbit in distress, but by George it brings crows in from a long way.

Anybody else out there enjoy this sport as much as I do? Any tips and tactics you wanna share. I really like to get deep in the woods where the crows have to get low to see what the ruckus is about. If I'm on the edge of a big field I use crow decoys along with an owl and play a crow/owl fight on the electronic call. We never get more than one good shoot out of a spot on a given day. Every now and then I can coerce a couple to come back with the mouth call, but that is a rare event. Suggestions? Thanks in advance.
 
I miss crow hunting...

I too used to hunt crows when I lived in Pa a while back. It was great to go out with my big bro and spend some time in the woods and fields.

Patty
 
I used to have a crow/owl fight tape for a tape player.

That will sometimes get the crows excited.
 
When I was younger I actively hunted crows, lately it is when one is handy or in my own tree. They are smart, alert, leary. I found them fun and rewarding to have a group come to you.
Boy, they do get excited if you can play sneakypete and get one with a CB or pellet without exposing yourself, Stay hid and you'll get another, once your spotted, it's over.
 
Since I sort of started this.. is crow hunting legal in Montana? Anybody know? I see no reference to them on the fish and game site nor in the regs. It does sound fun!
 
Have wondered why Arkansas has a season on them? When I was a kid growing up on a farm in Indiana, they were a menace, eating corn, and other crops. Thus, we killed all of them we could. Reckon someone in Arkansas thinks they are a game bird, and good eatin?
 
It was quite a few years ago that crows became protected. I forget the exact details, but I was told that we (the USA that is) signed a treaty with Mexico that was meant to protect a particular species of crow. In the text they used the word "crow" instead of being specific and after that the states had to put seasons on them. And if that is incorrect talk to the guy that told me the tale. :)
 
is crow hunting legal in Montana

When I lived there many years ago, Montana was one of the states that didn't set a season following the Migratory Bird Treaty (back in the 70's, I think). Sounds as if they still haven't. Friend got busted for pass-shooting crows while we were waiting for the geese to start flying one afternoon. When he went to court, the judge told the brand-new warden to "bust some real game violators if you want to make a name for yourself," then he looked at my friend and told him to "shoot some more of those nest-robbing bastriches." Gotta love small-town judges who hunt . . . In WA state, the season is in the fall; otherwise they're fair game whenever they are "in the act of depredation."
 
Yeap, my grandad has a lot in his backyard and they eat the eggs of some other little birds and they eat the dog's food. :cuss: So i shoot them with my pellet gun. Lots of fun. Keeps me entertained for a couple of hours.
 
Been a while since I hunted some but its a blast. I seem to have the best luck with the crow and owl fight tape. Just the sound of the owl gets them stirred up. You probably know to let the first one that flys over go. I think that one is like a scout. If he does not see you he will get the others to swarm in. After they stop flying in, change locations and try it again. We once located some crazy crows on a saturday afternoon and we shot about every shotgun shell we had. Some crows were coming in low like suicide bombers. Most furious action I have seen on a crow hunt. Never had that luck since then. Season is closed on them now, guess I might try it about June. Don't know why they have a season other than to protect some bird from Mexico (wonder if it speaks spanish) or something like that. No danger in killing all the crows so why have a season?
 
As a kid, we hunted them over the County Dump (uh, now - Landfill). We actually got THEM (the county, not the crows) to buy our ammo! Crows were a bothersome varmint & we had a BALL!
 
Crow hunting in Colorado is a great mid winter sport after big game season is done. .223 40 gr to 55 gr V-max and a crow call is a lot of fun on a cold winter day. High mountain crows are very BIG - almost the size of ravens and very plentiful.
 
Thinning the local flock

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That old Remington Bolt .22 is just deadly on crows. :)
 
Mann

That a Remmie 521T? Looks just like the first .22 Dad bought me 50 years ago & it still shoots well today (yours looks to be in better shape, however).
 
Nevada legalized crow hunting when I was around 12 or 13. I always thought it was stupid because Nevada had very few crows, but lots and LOTS of ravens, which were causing fairly big problems.
 
the seasons year round out here and can be taken at any time in the act of "depredatazation?.

have smote quite a few with a pellet rifle and we used to use some of my friends dads ever present bowl/jug of bird shot and pump up a BB rifle and use it as a make shift scatter gun back in the day.
 
the seasons year round out here

Best read the WA State regs, ken . . . hate to see a fellow Highroader get his butt in a crack . . .

Crow Statewide Oct. 1, 2008 - Jan. 31, 2009 (Crows in the act of depredation may be taken at any time.) no limit
 
They are sweet shooters . . . started with mine in Junior NRA smallbore competition, then became the scourge of gophers everywhere a few years later & it still does an admirable job after many thousands of rounds the Kids, nieces, nephews, & I have put thru it . . . accounted for a lot of "first" small game kills, provided many a cottontail dinner, and has been the central theme in a wealth of memories. Enjoy!
 
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