lmv123 1 Posted May 28, 2010 Report Share Posted May 28, 2010 hi lads i have a farm on permission and the farmer is wanting me to use my air rifle (mfr 22 rapid) to get rid of some crows that are terrorising his farm these crows are mostly diving in and out of his sillage pit and been a general neusance i have borrowed a hide and a few crow decoys off a freind and plan to set off early 3am to get set up can anyone give me any advice on how to get good numbers? is it hard doing it this way? how far should i set the hide up away from the pit? can anyone help because i really need to do damage tommorrow its air rifles only on this patch as it is close quatre shooting i have never done this before either thanks lads Quote Link to post
JackReid 35 Posted May 28, 2010 Report Share Posted May 28, 2010 I cant massivley help mate but put the decoys out at about 25 meters or wherever your comofrtable shooting from, could be 15 meters if you like! Hopefully wait for one to land and shoot him, then hopefully the others should go mad and you just got to home they keep landing. Your hide has to be pretty damn good tho crows see everything, dont be disheartened if you dont badly theres always next time when you can do a bit more research! Take some food bait with you aswell to put amongst the group of decoys? Cracked egg? Meat? Jack Quote Link to post
Phantom 631 Posted May 29, 2010 Report Share Posted May 29, 2010 I've tried Decoying Corvids to no avail But they keep getting closer to a dead bunny with its guts opened a little Had four Crows circling me yesterday as I had three dead bunnies at the side of me. Crows are probably the most intelligent little feckers on the planet They have immensley good eyesight as well. All it takes to scare a crow off is look at it So keep well out of sight and drape some scrim or netting across your rifle as they really dont like seeing straight lines Good luck and dont forget your camera Phantom Quote Link to post
lmv123 1 Posted May 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2010 thanks lads went out today and got 6 but the decoys were rubbish they would not land we eventually seen the farmer at around 8am and he said we could shoot in the barn which started to prejuce we have then decided to get a charge for the bottles we came back to the destination at around 11am and went straight to the barn but it was all down hill from there we got a couple of shots but no kills and a lot of the crows seemed to have dissaspeared Quote Link to post
JackReid 35 Posted May 31, 2010 Report Share Posted May 31, 2010 You got 6 crows in the end then?? Jack Quote Link to post
jackinbox99 41 Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 Dont know if anyone else has found this, but I shot another magpie in my garden last week and it landed in the middle of my garden. Before I had chance to go out there and pick it up, i noticed 3 massive crows all going mental trying to land next to the magpie. Now, ive not seen any crows in my garden for years, so i was supprised to see them come in so quick! Ive had magpies come in to checkout their dead friends before but didnt realise crows were interested in magpies.... Maybe a magpie decoy would work better than a crow one?! Quote Link to post
Phantom 631 Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 Maybe a magpie decoy would work better than a crow one?! Jack, I've heard that a Maggie deek will bring in the Crows before I've just gotta remeber to take mine with me Phantom Quote Link to post
venomviper 129 Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 hi ya buddy i slice the belly on the rabbits and put 2 crow deeks near the rabbit brings them straight in matey shay Quote Link to post
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