emtpredator
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anyone got patterns or ideas on making ur own crow decoys.
crow huntin
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We used to use metal clothes hangers and bend them into the shape of a crow and use black fabic material over them and you use staighten out the part that goes over the closet rod and that is the leg and stick that in the ground. We tried to sew the fabric but took to long so instead we used a stapler.
JDReno
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Just stumbled across this while browsing around, and while I have no experience in making crow decoys, Tim's use of clothes hangers got the ball rolling. I bet you could shape the hanger like Tim described, and then pull either black nylons, or black dress socks over the shape pretty easily, and they would kinda form fit the shape of the wire. Worth a try for a few bucks...
PineCone
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Anything will work...paper...wire... black paint.
I've bought decoys for $7.something bucks. It hardly seems worth the time if you can get them for that little. If money is problem just buy 1 Carry-Lite decoy and use it as your model. Crow season starts here Aug 15. Can't wait.
Have fun.
PC
I've bought decoys for $7.something bucks. It hardly seems worth the time if you can get them for that little. If money is problem just buy 1 Carry-Lite decoy and use it as your model. Crow season starts here Aug 15. Can't wait.
Have fun.
PC
emtpredator
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never crow hunted everybod i talk to say ineed a least a dozen i thought i would buy a few and make a few more.our season doesnt start til after dove season in sept. thought it might be something fun to do late mornings between bow hunting
possumal
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If you are really interested in hunting crows, get you a copy of one of Bob Aronsohn's crow hunting dvd's. The guy is a crow killing machine and you can't help but learn a lot about the sport. All Predator Calls handles them. I have had a lot of luck using a motion hawk and the crippled crow decoy with Bob's sounds on the Foxpro caller.
6mm06
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I've hunted crows for about 45 years and rarely did I ever use decoys. That's not to say that decoys aren't needed for crow shooting. It just depends on your set-up and terrain. Some people need them and some don't. For more open ground, decoys are very much needed. But here in the mountains where I hunt, it's not so open, with lots of trees etc., causing a crow's visibility to be limited.
My tactics are probably a lot different from many other people, due to the terrain I hunt. I viewed Bob Aronsohn's crow video and can clearly see why he uses decoys. He hunts a totally different type place than I do.
For me, I walk to a high knoll or ridge that has good cover, and do my calling from there. Since there is lot of trees, I have to choose a spot that has an opening for shooting. Sometimes that opening is small, but crows will circle, squaking and trying to find the source of the call down inside the timber. They will generally fly over that opening and that is where I get my shots. Sometimes they even come down into the timber and fly through like a grouse. They are very difficult to hit when they do that. They are very good acrobats. Decoys in that situation have little value.
The lay of the land where you hunt in Kentucky will determine more than anything, your need for decoys.
Sorry for getting off topic a little about patterns for decoys, but the thought just struck me that you may be hunting areas like I do.
If you come up with some good patterns or ideas, it would be nice to post some photos for us.
Good hunting to you.
David
My tactics are probably a lot different from many other people, due to the terrain I hunt. I viewed Bob Aronsohn's crow video and can clearly see why he uses decoys. He hunts a totally different type place than I do.
For me, I walk to a high knoll or ridge that has good cover, and do my calling from there. Since there is lot of trees, I have to choose a spot that has an opening for shooting. Sometimes that opening is small, but crows will circle, squaking and trying to find the source of the call down inside the timber. They will generally fly over that opening and that is where I get my shots. Sometimes they even come down into the timber and fly through like a grouse. They are very difficult to hit when they do that. They are very good acrobats. Decoys in that situation have little value.
The lay of the land where you hunt in Kentucky will determine more than anything, your need for decoys.
Sorry for getting off topic a little about patterns for decoys, but the thought just struck me that you may be hunting areas like I do.
If you come up with some good patterns or ideas, it would be nice to post some photos for us.
Good hunting to you.
David