Father and Son Hunt

jonthepain

jonthepain

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Got home around noon today, so I asked my middle (21 yr old) son if he wanted to go shoot some crows this afternoon. Heck yeah! he says, so we saddled up and headed out to a neighboring county.

Of course, the dog comes with.
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It was a beautiful day for hunting. Not too hot, not too cold.
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Our first stop was a pine plantation. We both missed several here.
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We went on down the road to a clear cut that borders a ranch.

"You hear 'em over there?"
"Sure do. That's where that ranch is at."
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There's not a lot of cover here, so we had to shoot from a sitting position.

Puppypopper's broomstraw colored ghillie would have been just the ticket for this spot.
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Daniel got one here with his full choke. Don't tell me #8 shot can't erase a crow's head.

I love that fractarn camo.
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They finally wised up after I expended an embarrassing amount of ammunition, so we moved back to our home county.


All my usual spots were crawling with deer hunters, so we made due with this one.
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It's kind of a tough (for me), straight overhead shot in here, but I managed to bring one down.
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It sure felt good when Daniel said, "Great shot, Dad!" Especially after my dismal performance on our previous stands.
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It was running close to 3:00 by then, and we had stuff to do, so we called it a day.

All in all a great day outdoors with a great son, and a successful hunt for each of us.

Homeward bound.
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Thanks for reading!
Jon
 
Great story and photos. Nothing like crow shooting.

Here where I live, open places are not good for crow shooting. The crows can see too easily at a distance and therefore either avoid the area or fly way to high to get a good killing shot.

The later photos with tall timber shows more like the way I shoot them here. I try to find a good canopy of trees, with openings above. The trees conceal me and also make it more difficult for crows to see down underneath when searching to find the source of the call. They tend to fly directly above the tree tops as a result, offering some really good close-range shooting. Sometimes, especially when the leaves are full, crows will come down inside the timber, making for some fast action shooting.

Congrats on your hunt, and thanks for the story and photos.
 
Originally Posted By: 6mm06Sometimes, especially when the leaves are full, crows will come down inside the timber, making for some fast action shooting.


Wow! I bet that's exciting!
 

Yea, it is exciting when the crows come down inside the timber. They are as hard to hit as a grouse when they are flying fast, and zig-zagging here and there.
 
Man, I'd love to see that.

Do you need a full overstory for that to happen? And I'm assuming a fairly well manicured (thinned by the logging company) stand of pine.

How tall do you like your pines to be?
 
i will not recommend being a valley and tall oaks when trying to call ...
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i rather hunt them in fields or short pines better cover to hide .

what is snow ?? lol
 
Originally Posted By: sonofdsouth72

i rather hunt them in fields or short pines better cover to hide .

absolutely! Here's one of my favorite spots - pines just over my head, and far enough away from real tall trees to get them in real low.

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Quote:what is snow ?? lol

It's that white stuff that falls from the sky - around here, maybe once or twice a year...

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(another favorite crow hunting spot of mine)
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A guy has to hunt the terrain he has available. Where I live, it's basically mountains with only a few fields here and there. I grew up hunting crows in the timber. That's just the way it is here.

As to the best timber, we don't have a lot of pines like further south. Most of our timber is hardwoods, and the tree grow rather tall. A good, tall canopy overhead is what brings the crows down inside when they are searching for the sound. If they can see well down inside the timber, then don't come down as easy.

Before crow season ever came about, I hunted crows a lot in the summer months. The trees were full of leaves and it really brought the crows down inside.

I always try to set up on a high place, like a knoll or hill where there are lots of trees. I try to find a few open places in the canopy above for shooting. Like Sonofdasouth72 mentioned, stay away from the valleys and low places since crows will generally fly too high.

I haven't hunted crows the way a lot of you guys do where the land is flat and open.

David
 
Nice work posting the pictures of the terrain and progress of the days hunt, not to mention spending time with your son. I really need to document some of my hunts better before I post them
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Originally Posted By: jonthepainOriginally Posted By: sonofdsouth72

i rather hunt them in fields or short pines better cover to hide .

absolutely! Here's one of my favorite spots - pines just over my head, and far enough away from real tall trees to get them in real low.

hunting6-6-09005.jpg


hunting6-6-09004.jpg




Quote:what is snow ?? lol


o thats snow ... we dont get that maybe once every couple of years ... lol .
It's that white stuff that falls from the sky - around here, maybe once or twice a year...

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(another favorite crow hunting spot of mine)
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