pigeons Vs crows

[stubby]

as the title says really, when decoying for crows, do you follow the same pattern that you would with pigeon

ie, a pattern of some description and an area that you want them to come into

or

are the just scatterd any old way?

do they all need to face the same way, beaks into the wind?

 

thanks for any info

[steve_b_wales]

When crow shooting, I always place the decoys/dead birds in a random pattern. but I always make sure that they are facing either directly, or side on to the wind. They don't need to be all facing the same way.

See if you can view crows feeding somewhere, to get an idea.

[Imperfection]

I never have any success with putting dead crows in my pattern.They always seem to know they're dead birds so therefore it means danger and wont come near yet i can get them in range of gun using cheap plastic decoys.I cant ever work that out!

 

Edited to add;

I put the decoys totally random facing all directions.

Edited November 5, 2010 by Imperfection

[steve_b_wales]

I never have any success with putting dead crows in my pattern.They always seem to know they're dead birds so therefore it means danger and wont come near yet i can get them in range of gun using cheap plastic decoys.I cant ever work that out!

 

Edited to add;

I put the decoys totally random facing all directions.

 

 

I'm not sure how you place your dead birds out, but I always use a length of thin bamboo cane, which is inserted from the rear of the bird, up into the head. The remaining cane is then inserted into the ground. This has never failed to draw the birds into the pattern.

[swiss.tony]

i use the pigeon cradles that all ways works just keep swapin till all plastic one are changed for real

[shoughton]

My shooting buddy shoots loads of rooks and crows - his advice to me is to always keep the heads well 'up' as opposed to down feeding as we do with pigeons.

[turbo33]

I never have any success with putting dead crows in my pattern.They always seem to know they're dead birds so therefore it means danger and wont come near yet i can get them in range of gun using cheap plastic decoys.I cant ever work that out!

 

Edited to add;

I put the decoys totally random facing all directions.

 

Had exactly the same last week. I put the dead birds out into the pattern, and the more I filled it the more flared off. Eventually took all the dead birds in and they started coming back in again. Think the advice on heads up is sound as when you look at a flock, they mostly seem to be strutting about with heads up.

[TJ91]

i buy and use them wooden kebab sticks/spikes (used on bbq's).

get a thousand of them for next to nowt in most supermarkets

 

just use that to prop the head up

 

less weight and not as bulky as cradles or cane and do just as good job

 

i use them for pigeon shooting aswell

 

i always have a hundred or so in the bottom of my decoying bag

 

very useful things

[Beretta28g]

This yaer while pigeon decoying i found peices of old HT fencing wire to be perfect for displaying dead birds, and one day i had just 12 shell pigeons out and ended up for 8 pigeons and 22 black stuffs If they wanna be there hardly anything will put them off i find.

[bucolic]

My shooting buddy shoots loads of rooks and crows - his advice to me is to always keep the heads well 'up' as opposed to down feeding as we do with pigeons.

 

I have been told this as well.

Edited November 22, 2010 by bucolic