Does anyone here know of this site and if is is still being used....

Sorry, never heard of it. Crows are protected here in my state.


-DallanC

Hermit,
Crow Busters site is gone but you can try these folks:

www.thecrowroost.com/C...usters.htm

Here :- Crowbusters

Strange how things differ with the UK. Crows are classed as vermin and can be shot or trapped all year round

Well, I'll be, mine now comes up as well. Crows must have struck back....
Ed

wy111 wrote:

Here :- Crowbusters Strange how things differ with the UK. Crows are classed as vermin and can be shot or trapped all year round

From my understanding, most states here that either protect crows entirely, or restrict the killing of crows, relate it back to a treaty with Mexico(damn if I know which one). I guess Mexico's national bird is the raven, a crow's close cousin.

Damn things are protected over here in Australia as well in most places. Doesn't stop the farmers or most hunters though.

Crows are very cluey birds...they almost seem to duck the bullet. Point anything like a rifle at them and they are gone. Something rather satisfying with seeing a crow "explode" from being hit with a 80gn bullet doing about 3500 fps.


Cheers, Vince

Happen to be a crow hunter. Crows are migrotory birds. When the US made a treaty with Mexico on Migratory birds, there was no exclusion for any birds, so the crow was pulled in. Our friendly congress again, with a foresight as long as their foreskin. There is a federal season on crows, in effect, established by the can not shoot times.

Florida allows as how they are vermin and can be killed by any means, but you can not kill the varmits during the no shoot fed times. I use a 20ga shotgun and rifle. My crow rifle is a 22-250 AI fast twist gun. I use calls and decoys for shotgun shooting. A good day crow busting can be way better than the best day in the dove field here in the US.

If you get on a crow flyway and use an owl decoy with a dying crow call, they will flock in on you like gang busters. Usually a rifle shot is 300 plus yards. The 22-250 is a wings and feet in red mist kinda gun.
Ed

You'll love this...

NC law says that crow season is "Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of each week from June 1 through the last day of February plus Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. ... Seasons shown are valid through June 30, 2008." There is no bag limit.

Only a politician or lawyer could come up with that!

in Pa they are classified as a small game species, can be hunted july 1 to nov. 24 then again dec 28 to april 6. friday saturday and sunday only but no bag limit so blast the hell outta them...

Morax wrote:

in Pa they are classified as a small game species, can be hunted july 1 to nov. 24 then again dec 28 to april 6. friday saturday and sunday only but no bag limit so blast the hell outta them...

We also have "friday, saturday, and sunday" crow hunting restrictions.

In Michigan we have a season for them. They are the dirtiest animal I have ever shot. They roost over one another and crap on each other all the time.
We can sell the feathers to crafts people some times, Other than that Im not sure what you would do with them, other than feed the ferel cats and then shoot them as well.
I use my 12ga. w/ #4 shot and the 22Hornet with Hornady 35 gr bullets.

im from the pa and well crows are fun to shoot at with a 30-30. i shot at 1 in a field and fleeped it then it flew away i nicked it or something

Good try Mullet....but as I said above, and on another thread (the Rabbit thread)....the buggers duck !!! Unless they are just messing wiv my head...which they probably get a good laugh out of anyway.

Cheers, Vince

hey those dang things do duck man i shot at 3 with my 3030 and they fleep like i hit them but then they just fly away