jfgpm Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Hi, I explored some crow threads in here. Because my contribution in the section "pigeon" will be very little (lack of birds, at the moment little knowledge ) and at the moment just asking questions I would like to tell a small story about a fantastic hunting weekend this year. I also write in another forum in Germany (www.wildundhund.de/forum). In the last few years crow hunting became quite popular in Germany and especially in this forum. Threads with over 100 pages are usual in the last years. That crow hunting community (recently called crowboys) is a very friendly and relaxed bunch of blokes. No hunting envy, no silly discussions , always very helpful… To cut a long story short: I organized hunting areas and invited them to come. We wanted to get to know each other, hunt together and I had the ambition to force the crow hunting in our area. (we had been the only ones for years!) So we met at the end of July. 15 of the 45 known crow hunters found their way from all over Germany to our region. Our camp was an old barn in a small village near to the hunting grounds. There were three hunts. Saturday morning (4 to 9), Saturday at lunchtime a small magpie hunt from 2 to 5, Saturday evening(7 to 11) and Sunday morning (4 to 9). Friday evening we had a small get to gather meeting where local hunters could talk to the guests. One of my mates was so kind to give a small lecture in crow hunting for the newbies. After that the guests checked out the fields where to hunt with the locals. The night was quite short. We chatted until dawn. Unfortunately it rained the whole night and nearly the whole morning. From 4-9 o'clock we measured 32 liters. At 3:30 the guests started with their equipment to meet the locals in the fields. After every hunt we gathered at the barn eat something and changed the hunting area. After 24 hours, 3 crow hunts and on magpie hunt, nearly no sleep we got 316 crows 12 magpies and 8 jaybirds. Here are some impressions of that weekend These guys drove all the way down from northern Germany. 8 Hours driving in this packed up car. The third person had 5 decoys on his lab because there was no other space left 101 lesson for newbies in crow hunting As I said, it raind cats and dogs... and it was terrible cold especially because some of us had no rain protection Our pattern My hide (side view) After the first hunt Two patterns from the evening hunt: And the escaping crows out of this area. Unfortunately we had not enough people to "beat" them back into the hunting area where the different hides were. Ah, in every hunting place was on or two hides. Some of us were so exausted that they didn't join us while we sat down and drink something (I think it was about 3 in the morning) Next morning beautiful sunshine but less crows so he decided to have a short cnap (well maybe there had been crows, but ...) When I am a grown up I will hunt my one crows and finally the guest hunters with one or two locals The pictures aren't so beautiful, but I had to select the anonym ones. Don't wanna get one of the hunters in trouble. Hope you enjoyed the short story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluke2 Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 looks like you had some good shooting interesting post we used to do a similar thing before lambing time for a farm in scotland but too many twisty Bs complaining about the noise now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeonblasterian Posted September 2, 2010 Report Share Posted September 2, 2010 Certainly got rid of a few crows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfgpm Posted September 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 looks like you had some good shooting interesting postwe used to do a similar thing before lambing time for a farm in scotland but too many twisty Bs complaining about the noise now. Did you had problems with the lambs and crows ? I heard about that they sometimes attack them especially the weakest spots like eyes ... Is that really true ? What are twisty Bs ? Certainly got rid of a few crows. Oh yes, but lot of are still waiting for us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgunspud Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 Well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wesman Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 Sounds really good, especially the little lesson for newbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardo Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 A great write up and photos, no matter how hard you plan mother nature can always make things harder! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris64 Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 Looks like you had a great weekend well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 What a great story and some wonderful photos to accompany it. Thanks for sharing thaat with us mate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShropshireJohn Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 Good stuff , thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 Excellent.Nice pics too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfgpm Posted September 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 Sounds really good, especially the little lesson for newbs Definitly ! So they were able to help at the next morning and know for the futur how to do this. There are too many out there who don't read instructions carefully, go out make things worse with their half knowledge (pattern, hide, camouflage...) teach crows a lesson and complain afterwards that this kind of hunting ist **** because it didn't work. at the moment we are setting up a crow wiki where everything which is importand can be found. Unfortunately we don't have too much time to work on it. A great write up and photos, no matter how hard you plan mother nature can always make things harder! There was also a a 6 pages article in a well known hunting journal. Here are some more photos http://www.wildundhund.de/438,6471/ Best is: It was a really good add and now it is a fast selling item (not sure if this is the correct expression). This year to of the hunters organized also such a hunt, next year in Feb. there will be another on and in August 2011 there will be the next really big on (At the moment 30 hunters signed in. Lets see how it will be) Here are some more pictures: FKJ Crow Hunt 2010 1.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 Nice pics. Crow shooting is good fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurus5000 Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 This may seem a strange question but what kind of spaniel is the brown dog? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinistercr0c Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 Good write up and some great pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
left & right Posted September 7, 2010 Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 Looked like you had a good time nice pics and write up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfgpm Posted September 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 (edited) This may seem a strange question but what kind of spaniel is the brown dog? Thanks Thanks for your comments. The small brown one is no Spaniel. It is a 13 week old German Lonhair puppy ;-) At the hunt we had: Duck Tolling Retriever German Longhair (3 excluded the small one) Small Münsterländer (3) Flatcoated Labrador (3) German Wirehair (?) (3) some Terriers and some others Springers are in Germany very rare what is really sad. I have seen them working in the UK. Great fellows ! Edited September 8, 2010 by jfgpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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