Damm Crows

[Die Judicii]

It seems like the crows have had a population explosion here just lately.
I spent (wasted) a couple hours this afternoon trying to bag a few.
They seem to spread out over 10 or 15 acres in a circular fashion.
So it doesn't matter where you start, some of em see you and tell the others.
Their sentrys seem to have the knack of keeping behind clumps of foliage with only the head visible (or in most cases not visible till too late)

Tried going out in the general area and sitting in a hide a week ago,,,, and you guessed it, they didn't turn up at all.
They are the most cunning and freakishly lucky thing I've ever hunted.
Even when you do get one, that's it,, just one,, cos my "sound moderator" cant be working.

Maybe I'm trying too hard,,, I had better results when I wasn't actually trying to exterminate the little b#@^*rds.

Anyone else get frustrated with em ?

[Westy]

Feed the pricks for a few weeks !!!!Build a 2mx1m fence outta chicken wire . After 2 weeks put a top on it with a 250mm funnel hole on the top of it and sit back and watch the fun begin Die!!!!!!!
Do you have a shotgun @ all

[Noisydad]

The sods can tell the difference between a shovel over your shoulder and a rifle over your shoulder too!

[Warrigul]

If you, accidentally, wing the first one the rest will hang about or keep coming back.

Crows at 300m with a target centerfire is the ultimate sport, but you will only ever get one unless the above happens.

I use a crow call, it works.


PS, crows can see colour.

[loopal]

Not just the cyclone up there bringing them all out from their hiding places recently?

[cooker]

If you, accidentally, wing the first one the rest will hang about or keep coming back.

*WINK*

[wrenchman]

as warrigul said get a crow call you could also kill a rabbit throw it were crows can see it easy and mix in a rabbit distress call with the crow call.

[hrrl]

as warrigul said get a crow call you could also kill a rabbit throw it were crows can see it easy and mix in a rabbit distress call with the crow call.

This is sounding like hunting for a Turducken

[tom604]

make some crow decoys, that may help ?

[Oldbloke]

FYI. We do not have any crows in OZ. They are "white eyed ravens" , and natives. A little known fact.

[sbd3927]

My favourite bird in the Outback... pre-dawn a few caws in the distance, then the sound of wind through feathers as it perches on a nearby tree and eyes your swag. If you weren't wakened by the airborne noise, the raucous AAARK!!!! takes care of that. {Are you alive, or can I have your eyeballs for breakfast???}
A few days of that and the first sound of wings are quite enough to make you wake and thump the swag so it pisses off and lets you sleep a little longer, at least until the sun hits the swag... then it rapidly heats and your sleep in is over

I shot a few as a kid for feathers to fletch crossbow bolts. Near impossible with a .22, you hit them but there's not enough vital damage to drop them.

[Warrigul]

FYI. We do not have any crows in OZ. They are "white eyed ravens" , and natives. A little known fact.

Forest ravens in TAS, and yes you can legally shoot them.

A tip with shotguns use #4 or heavier shot otherwise the pellets don't penetrate much over 25m but if you are in the middle of an orchard and one does wing by when you have #7, 8 or 9 shot in each barrel then wait until they turn away and give it to them when the wing is raised, drop dead every time. I shoot twenty to forty over the orchards each year, most when the cherries have dropped. First walk in the orchard of a morning I always have #4's in the second barrel in case I disturb a crow.

[FuzzyM]

Not good for lambs when they are being born.
Just ask my Granfather

[Combat_Wombat]

Growing up we used to drop one occasionaly with the .22 but the rest would get really savvy and would take off as soon as they saw the barrel whether poking out of a window or hidden in a bush. Wrapped the barrel in hessian sack and got two more. Then the bastards would take off if they saw hessian. Too smart for their own good.

[deanp100]

I remember a technique in an old shootiñg mag on how to shoot crows. You built a hide and with 20 of your mates enter the hide. Then 14 leave and 12 go bak then 6 leave and 7 return then 3 leave and 9 return then 2 new mates enter and leave immediately and so on until the crows are confused and then you may shoot one.

[Noisydad]

Apparently more crows are killed on the roads when picking over road kill by trucks than passenger vehicles.. It's because the sentry's they station on the power lines or fence posts can only say "Car, car, carrrrrr".

[trekin]

FYI. We do not have any crows in OZ. They are "white eyed ravens" , and natives. A little known fact.

Not quite right bloke, (sorry Jacky boy couldn't wait any longer for you to pipe in ), there are in fact three Raven and two Crow species native to Australia, as well as a blow in Crow species from the near north Asian region which has made regular appearances as a ship-assisted vagrant.

Australian raven (Corvus coronoides)
Little raven (C. mellori)
Forest raven (C. tasmanicus)
Little crow (C. bennetti)
Torresian crow (C. orru)
House crow (C. splendens)

And for our QLD viewers all Crows and Ravens are native animals and are protected under the QLD Nature Conservation Act 1992.

[Mr.x]

Apparently more crows are killed on the roads when picking over road kill by trucks than passenger vehicles.. It's because the sentry's they station on the power lines or fence posts can only say "Car, car, carrrrrr".

[Arth]

Too smart for their own good.

Common raven is the smartest bird "they" say.

[Combat_Wombat]

Common raven is the smartest bird "they" say.

Remember watching a doco on ravens living in Japan and how they would get nuts from a tree in the park. Then fly over a road and drop them so the cars could crush them. After a couple got hit they learned to drop them on pedestrian crossings and pick the nuts up when the light went green

[sally-bee]

Common raven is the smartest bird "they" say.

It was in Ace Ventura so it must be true!

[Streamline]

Remember watching a doco on ravens living in Japan and how they would get nuts from a tree in the park. Then fly over a road and drop them so the cars could crush them. After a couple got hit they learned to drop them on pedestrian crossings and pick the nuts up when the light went green

Smart stuff.

People don't give other animals enough credit.

[Die Judicii]

I remember a technique in an old shootiñg mag on how to shoot crows. You built a hide and with 20 of your mates enter the hide. Then 14 leave and 12 go bak then 6 leave and 7 return then 3 leave and 9 return then 2 new mates enter and leave immediately and so on until the crows are confused and then you may shoot one.

When I first started school, I learned to count to ten because I had ten digits.
So it stands to reason that if your dealing with crows in early school stages, you would only need seven people to confuse em cos they can only count to 6

[greyghost]

When I first started school, I learned to count to ten because I had ten digits.

If you ever really want to break out I have a trick that will let you count to 20!

[Die Judicii]

When I first started school, I learned to count to ten because I had ten digits.

If you ever really want to break out I have a trick that will let you count to 20!

I musta went to a "classy" school if you'll pardon the pun.
We weren't encouraged to take off our shoes during lessons.

[ebr love]

And if you want to count to 21.......

[greyghost]

I musta went to a "classy" school if you'll pardon the pun.
We weren't encouraged to take off our shoes during lessons.

You mean you had shoes? You are fancy.

[anthillinside]

Problem is Crows use the Binary systemso theyncan count to 15 on just one claw.

[Warrigul]

Problem is Crows use the Binary systemso theyncan count to 15 on just one claw.

Forget rise of the machines and the annihilation of the human race, get ready for "Rise of the crow"

[hootshoot]

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