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crackshot

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North Central Iowa

I was trying my hand at crow hunting for the first time this afternoon and had little luck. Any tips on this would be welcome. Are calls necessary? Decoys?

Anyway, while sitting along the corn field I though I heard some pheasants in the distance as the sun was going down. I walked out and along the half harvested corn field saw 20 - 30 pheasants flying around over the standing corn. Last year I didn't see one pheasant in this area. One difference is that it's one of the last fields of standing corn for a mile or so.
 
crackshot said:
North Central Iowa

I was trying my hand at crow hunting for the first time this afternoon and had little luck. Any tips on this would be welcome. Are calls necessary? Decoys?

Anyway, while sitting along the corn field I though I heard some pheasants in the distance as the sun was going down. I walked out and along the half harvested corn field saw 20 - 30 pheasants flying around over the standing corn. Last year I didn't see one pheasant in this area. One difference is that it's one of the last fields of standing corn for a mile or so.
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What does a crow taste like?
 
I haven't ever eaten one. I don't plan on it either. From what I have seen on the internet it is a popular thing to hunt just for fun and to help control the population.
 
Unless you are sitting on the motherlode of them, which can happen, you need at least a call. Looks like a duck call, but is made for crows. They make electronic calls for them too, that sound like crows fighting owls or hawks or just crows going nuts. They work.

Leave anything you shoot laying on the ground, or gather them up so it looks like they might be attacking something out in front of you and it will attract other crows that fly by.

Crows are smart. They eventually figure out what's up and stop coming in, so you move on to the next spot.

You need to be well camo'd and well hidden.

That's my limited experience with them, anyway.

Crows will fight and try to kill just about anything. I've heard of rednecks using all kinds of stuff to draw them in.
 
Toad said:
Unless you are sitting on the motherlode of them, which can happen, you need at least a call. Looks like a duck call, but is made for crows. They make electronic calls for them too, that sound like crows fighting owls or hawks or just crows going nuts. They work.

Leave anything you shoot laying on the ground, or gather them up so it looks like they might be attacking something out in front of you and it will attract other crows that fly by.

Crows are smart. They eventually figure out what's up and stop coming in, so you move on to the next spot.

You need to be well camo'd and well hidden.

That's my limited experience with them, anyway.

Crows will fight and try to kill just about anything. I've heard of rednecks using all kinds of stuff to draw them in.
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sounds like coyote hunting, might be interesting
 
I use a downloaded crow call from the internet that I burned onto a CD and play it on my boombox as loud as it will play. Crows have amazing hearing and after a minute or two, if there are any crows around you will know.

Check to see if electronic calls are allowed but I bet they are for crows. We do it early and spring seasons for something to do.

I've also pulled the car or truck off the road along a fence, opened the windows and played the thing as loud as I can while I hide in the bushes and killed many crows. Hop in, drive to next spot and try again.

They're smart, so smart that I have never heard of anyone having seen a crow that was hit by a car or truck. They know to look both ways and they are often on the side of the road eating carrion. I see other types of birds that are splattered all the time but never one crow.
 
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