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Offline heelerau

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@!*% Crows
« on: January 28, 2013, 01:44:22 AM »
Gents,
         yesterday I nailed a crow with a lovely little Niel Fields .36 leman rifle.  The jolly retched crows are starting to pester our chooks, have just about finished the  new divorce chook yard, but that is another story.
     I was able to shoot from the front stoop, had forgotten how loud this rifle is,  we live on a hobby farm of just a few acres, with a lot of near neighbours, so only shoot occasionally on the place so as not to upset people. Back to the crow, he was on the fence in the horse yard, so was a pretty tempting target !! I greased the patches with TOW mink oil, seems to work fine, but stinks a bit !!


Cheers all from down under

Gordon ;D
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2013, 03:22:08 AM »
'chook'?  'divorce chook yard'?    Would the TOTW mink oil REALLY stink after an afternoon of shooting?  Thanks.
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2013, 03:48:07 AM »
Chicken. You no comprende Ozzie? Can also be used in a disparaging fashion.......
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2013, 05:49:44 AM »
Dont rekkin one should choke them ch----?Sorry,couldnt help it.Been a long day.Dave
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Offline heelerau

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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2013, 09:13:09 AM »
Fellow Colonials,
                       chicken = chooks,  choking the chook, now that is just plain rude. !!  Good news is the crows is still hangin about, so reckon on  a little more fun with the Leman rifle. Dropped the charge down to 35 grs from 40 of FFFg. Might make a little less noise. Only shooting at 25 to 40 yds.  
     The mink oil in the tin has a funny sweet rancid smell.  Does not smell like any of the naughty minxes I seem to remember knowin when a young un.  The missus will get shirty if fen I use my Lancaster from inside the living room as the place stinks up with burned gunpowder and stain the curtains, or set them afire !! I have been on holidays too long.

Cheers

Gordon ;)
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2013, 02:29:46 PM »
Here in the UK they are also a problem especially at harvest time ,here we decoy them and I personally use a percussion shotgun in 12 gage .
Feltwad



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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2013, 02:59:53 PM »
 Crow feathers can be used for Trout flies. Nice soft hackles for wets. There's a whole lot of flies in that pile!! Woodbutcher
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2013, 04:07:07 PM »
OK Feltwad, I am impressed. Are you using just the crow decoys? We have a horrible time with them when corn/maize is just coming up and again when it is nearly ripe, they cause unacceptable losses. Justice would be a pile like you've got there.
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2013, 04:58:40 PM »
That looks like a mighty fine shootin gun ! That is a fair measure of corbies !!
        Our crows down under molest chooks, lambing ewes  and the like. I have seen some dreadful things done to lambs and cast sheep, and have murdered crows mercilessly ever since.

 What charge and shot weight are you using ?

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Gordon
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Offline Roger Fisher

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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2013, 05:55:41 PM »
Stuffed great horn on pole = crows and hawks - crows smart - hawks dumb! ;)
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2013, 06:35:52 PM »
Personally I don't have a reason to shoot crows, I enjoy watching them and their antics too much - but then I do not own chickens nor have a corn field to defend.

When I was a wee boy I remember my grand dad in tennessee wiring a tree with dynamite, waiting until the crows came to roost in the late evening and setting off the charges. Very exciting, and made an unholy mess of a lot of crows. And after a day or so raised an awful stink.

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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2013, 10:29:24 PM »
Heelerau

Here the carrion crows are a nuisance when ewes are lambing outside , they attack a new born lamb as soon has it is born and go straight for the eyes. The best time for carrions is in the spring when they are pairing up and staking their territory, they will mob any crow decoy and come for them with plenty of voice.
For a 12 gauge load I use a volume load of 2.3/4 drms of FFg black powder to 1.1/8 oz of 5 or 6 shot
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2013, 12:08:13 AM »
Crows are the mafia of the animal world; it's difficult to dispute this.  But speaking ONLY for myself, I've never shot a crow even though I've had many, many chances.  I guess I respect their intelligence more than I condemn their manners.  They are without a doubt MENSA level in the animal world.
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2013, 01:34:00 AM »
My brotjer calls em "flyin possums" as they eat anything.Old fellow I worked for in Georgia called em "chicken birds" big as ckickens,fly like birds.I liked to watch em pester the two big redtails that hunted the farm.Have a few "gifted" feathers in my old mowing hat down there from our crow friends.Neighbor had a hydroponic garden and the crows like to drove him crazy.You should see them things fly with a 'mater in their beak.hahahah.Dave
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2013, 09:06:05 PM »
Ah, a chicken.  No, Kermit, no Ozzie; heck I'm just starting to understand the older fellow down the the road that's from the London area!  He's been in America scince 1964...his English is improving, tho. ;)  Thanks.
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« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2013, 07:31:16 PM »
Years ago when I was a young fellow we used to get 10 cents for a pair of crows feet. An old fellow at that time told me he would go to the local dump and trap a crow, wire its wings to a board and it would raise one heck of a racket. The other crows would dive down trying to save it and it would grab onto one of them.he would go over and free it and set it up on another board. Would keep this up until he had enough then kill them and get their legs. Never tried it myself but often wondered if it would work.  Al
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2013, 10:07:26 PM »
Did he begin this tale with "Once upon a time"?
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #17 on: February 05, 2013, 10:17:48 AM »
Quote from: Feltwad on January 28, 2013, 10:29:24 PM
Heelerau

Here the carrion crows are a nuisance when ewes are lambing outside , they attack a new born lamb as soon has it is born and go straight for the eyes. The best time for carrions is in the spring when they are pairing up and staking their territory, they will mob any crow decoy and come for them with plenty of voice.
For a 12 gauge load I use a volume load of 2.3/4 drms of FFg black powder to 1.1/8 oz of 5 or 6 shot
Feltwad
Thanks Felt wad, I use much the same on duck with my little W&C Scott 12 bore percussion gun.  Our crows do the same down under to both lambing ewes , lambs as they are being born and any sheep that may get cast on the side of a hill.  Where do you get a crow decoy from? be interesting to try one here. We do not have such as I am aware of.

Cheers

Gordon
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« Reply #19 on: February 05, 2013, 11:22:44 AM »
Here in the UK most gun shops sell crow and other decoys along with  camouflage clothing and camouflage nets etc
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #20 on: February 05, 2013, 07:58:28 PM »
Good on you feltwad,  Make that pile bigger.  I raised sheep in Oregon & the crows were a BIG problem.  I hung 'em in trees by the feet.  a little of that and they went someplace else....Tom P.S.   If your tired of shootin' em, send me that 12 bore & I'll shoot some yankee crows with it-----
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Re: @!*% Crows
« Reply #21 on: February 06, 2013, 12:32:11 AM »
Quote from: Feltwad on January 28, 2013, 02:29:46 PM
Here in the UK they are also a problem especially at harvest time ,here we decoy them and I personally use a percussion shotgun in 12 gage .
Feltwad




             By Golly Feltwad, now I know why a pack of crows is known as a "murder"!   ;D Too bad they don't taste so good. That pile would make quite a pie.
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