steve_b_wales Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 After the farmer phoned me earlier this week, to say that there were 1000's of Crows on his land, eating all the Oats, I went up yesterday morning straight from work to see for myself. There were'nt 1000's there, but at least 5-600 mixed Crows/Jackdaws. I told the farmer that we would be up this morning to have a crack at them. I met my mate, Mark (the poacher) at 7am, and we drove up to the top field to set up our hide etc. The farmers son said he would spread some Oats on the field for us at around 9.15am. When we arrived at the top field, we could see many birds on the surrounding fields, although not as many as there were the previous morning. While waiting for the birds to arrive, there was one Crow on the field, at around 70 yards. I shot it with my 17HMR,hit it, but it flew to another field approx 300 yards away, then dropped down dead. Both Mark and I decided to leave it where it was. A few Crows came into our pattern of decoys, and we shot 2. We used them on floaters. Afterwards, the Oats arrived and were spread out where we requested, but most of the Crows had vanished after the couple of shots we fired. For the next few hours, we had the odd Crow coming into the pattern, and many Jackdaws, which we dispatched. We also missed 'a few' too! We enjoyed the rare sunshine, and just sat in the hide, chilling out, apart from when the birds came in. At around 1.30pm, everything went quiet, and we stayed until 2.30pm. We had a good half day out, with some testing shots, some great weather, and a damn good laugh. We ended up with 33 Jackdaw's and 5 Crows, including the one which I shot with my 17HMR earlier. The photo's show our decoys,which were a mix of artificial and dead birds. some of the land which we shoot over,where we set up the hide, and the end result. My thanks to Mark for a great time out, and a good laugh as well. Hopefully, we'll get some more soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the poacher Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 yer i must say we had a cracking day out good weather good company as allways and a good crack,will look forward to our next outing lets hope this is a good start to our season bring on the corvids :lol: and next time we go i hope to try out my new escort magnum thats if hes remembered to send it cheers steve rgds mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 good result nice one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doo hunter Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Thats a good days shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texas Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon123 Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Well done :good: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocker3 Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 well done buddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyboots Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 great shooting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Good shooting Steve and Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG wales Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 well done boys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren h Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Good shooting Steve, looked a gorgeous day down there. Daz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie uk Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Great scenery !! Love to live there !! Nice bag as well !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandmartin Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Nice work on the corvids. Always good to see more of 'em knocked down! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 top stuff dudes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREENGRASS Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Looks like you guy's had a good day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckytrigger Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Good skills on those corvids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Well done Steve and Mark.Good Shooting boys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebarrels Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Well done boys a good bag BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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