The Challenge of Crow Hunting - Equipment, Optics, and Techniques

For abounding of us babble hunting can be as arduous and advantageous as any blazon of hunting that exists. To consistently fool one of the smartest birds accepted to man, is harder than it may seem, BUT with this advice and techniques you can accept a approved afterwards edge. The babble is one of the a lot of able and able-bodied sighted birds that exist. Obviously the aboriginal affair that you accept to do in adjustment to coursing this arresting bird is to locate them. I accept begin In about 40 years of babble hunting acquaintance that a superior brace of binoculars to advice locate abroad crows are a must. For the money, my admired eyes are the Leupold Cascade, camo 8x42mm, which advertise for about $300.00 or the Leupold Wind River Mesa, camo 10x50mm which advertise for about $220.00. Another brace that I accept acclimated for abounding years is the Nikon Dream Season camo 8x36mm which advertise for about $280.00.Cap Lamps Cordless All of these plan actual able-bodied for belief their bounded habits in a accustomed region. By examination and belief their flight patterns you can best actuate an optimal website for your allurement setup. Once this is bent you can use these "flyways" as abundant ambuscade sites, as crows chronicle to accustomed flyways. During aboriginal bounce if crows are nesting, and active in pairs (not groups) no absolute flyways exist. As summer approaches and the adolescent leave the nest, the crows alpha basic groups because there is assurance in ample numbers. Now is if they can be patterned. As winter approaches beyond flocks are formed. At night crows will accumulation calm for assurance in treetops adjoin their enemies such as the abundant horned owl. These concentrated areas are referred to as the "roost". Hunting a roost in abatement and winter is the best. Some humans know, some don't, that crows are bitter enemies with birds of prey, such as hawks, owls, eagles etc. For this acumen a acceptable bureaucracy of decoys including an owl or militarist allurement alloyed with babble decoys is adopted to fool this bird. I accept begin that the artificial abounding sized babble decoys plan the best. This blazon of bureaucracy works actual able-bodied with avant-garde cyberbanking calling accessories with limited speakers as able-bodied as aperture calls for us added accomplished crowers. My admired calling tapes are Johnny Stewart's "Crow Fighting An Owl", "Fighting Crows", "The Babble Reveille", and assuredly the "Death Cry of A Crow". After getting abeyant all night, crows are athirst and added advancing in the morning, than after in the day.They are accessible to eat and FIGHT. A lot of often, at aboriginal light, they can be absorbed in afterpiece to a setup, putting them in baleful shotgun range. As the day wears on they can become added alert and weary acceptation they will appear to the bureaucracy but abounding times they will breach top in the air and not be bamboozled into gun range. With mornings consistently getting a abundant hunt, the babble can aswell be bolter during all aurora hours. Locate a army with a acceptable brace of binoculars, afresh accomplish your move. Beard is mandatory. From an aeriform appearance the babble will consistently accept the advantage. Abounding camo, including face mask, hat, gloves and gun camo is best.(Waving a agleam gun butt about will a lot of generally forward them on their way with no shots fired.) Once shots are fired, that breadth and bureaucracy are done, move on. Crows are too acute to be bamboozled afresh at that location. For diehards like me, backpack to a new breadth by glassing and award added birds, accomplish your setup, afresh get accessible for added action. Preferred bureaucracy sites are those that activity blubbery awning for animal beard after the obstruction of too abounding over arch copse and limbs. I accept bolter a roost in my accompaniment that numbers over 100,000 crows. Through my appointment I apperceive absolutely breadth they roost. With audible accepted flyways I apperceive absolutely breadth to setup, about 1/2 mile additional abroad from the roost. My best for this book is the blubbery clandestine breadth I can commonly put a ample timberline amid me and the admission birds, because they cannot see me til its too backward and it hides my movement. A acceptable morning coursing for me in this breadth agency about a 100 crows will not be advancing home tonight. Sometimes semi accessible fields can be abundant bureaucracy sites if they are on a flyway.Mining Lights Hard Hats I adopt the baby popup camo, apart netted hunting blinds. There are times on very, actual airy days, crows fly by itself low to the ground, (in gun range) advancing to and from the roost. On these occasions no decoys are needed, one should anon acquisition beard beneath these paths and acceptable luck aggravating to accumulate you gun abounding of shells. As one beachcomber comes and goes the next is abiding to be appropriate behind. I accept had over 1 1/2 hour non stop shoots during these times. This is the barring if you do not accept to get up and backpack because they will use their flyway no amount what and the crows that haven't gotten there yet accept not heard the antecedent shots. For me, my Remmington Model 1100, in semi automatic, is an accomplished firearm choice. If the activity is hot a simple cull of the activate beats pump activity in my opinion. Of advance I apperceive that pumps are the best of some hunters, and you should use what anytime you are a lot of adequate with. Crows are not the easiest birds to beating out of the sky. 12 barometer has the ability for me. Attempt amount 4 is my adopted BB admeasurement as it has the ability to breach cartilage at added distances giving me a 40-50+ backyard advantage. Abounding asphyxiate works best to accumulate the arrangement tight. A babble advancing appear you is easier to down than the ones that are aggravating to fly away, but, the 4 attempt will accord you added ambit as they try to escape. The babble can be begin globally and there are actual top numbers of them in the US. If you accept not yet accomplished the adventure of a babble coursing yet do yourself a favor as it doesn't crave a ample investment and it is such a blood-tingling adventure! If at aboriginal you don't succeed, you accept apparently been spotted by these astute birds, apprentice from the acquaintance and try again. With a acceptable bureaucracy and able beard you should be actual successful. Consistently bethink to analysis the laws, regulations, and appointed seasons of your accompaniment and a lot of of all, HAVE FUN!!! Please cover the adolescent bearing with you on your babble hunts to accumulate this attitude alive.