magnet and crows?

[08shooter]

hi guys just wondering if any body had tried a pigeon magnet with dead crows tied on whilst shooting crows in the field. i usually just use a dozen or so deeks but would like to try some thing new.i made a home made magnet and wonder is it worth the bother taing it to the field. what do you guys do ? thanks

[30-6]

I know some people have success with crows on the whirly, but I never have, opposite effect if anything. But what I have done with limited effect is to set it up 100's of yards away (next field), to get them in the area and hope that when they spook at the whirly they'll come over to the decoys.

 

Try it, like all decoying sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, it's on the day.

[hawkeye]

Last back end scaffy and myself shot over 60 black ones

and we had a magnet in use that day did not stop them comeing in.

 

Have been shooting a lot of crows over the last few weeks

and the magnet has stayed at home they have still been coming to the decoys.

 

So give it a try if they get shy take it in and just use decoys.

[roe doe]

USED magnet on crows when i first got one about 6 years

ago and i found itworked but once crows in a certain area

had seen a few times veered off @ 70-80 yards from decoys

tryed slowing magnet down but still the crows veer off .

i think if you use one in an area that has a lot of shooting pressure

the crow become wary of them

[tosspot]

tried it twice

 

both times was a failure

 

can't beat dead birds in cradles as deeks

[Will Beasley]

Ive had some pretty good success with crows on a magnet, but like most have said a different approach is needed.

 

I've had good results using a plastic hawk on one end of the rotor arm and a crow on t'other, and RPM of the rotor needs to be spot on else they'll twig danger immediateley.