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<blockquote data-quote="CORK" data-source="post: 7902638" data-attributes="member: 2193"><p>I’m a complete novice at it (have had moderate success with pigeons in the past) but the crows seem to be a walk in the park so far. As the the crows fall, I go out periodically and arrange the dead crows so they appear to be sitting eating the crop amongst the decoys. Even those clever, horrid grey crows are a relatively easy shot as they are particularly nosey.</p><p></p><p>You can see the odd wiser crow flying at a distance but most come right in close for the shot. They land into the wind.</p><p>Crouching or using a camouflage fence is important so they don’t see the human standing silhouette.</p><p>I have a camouflage veil over my face too.</p><p>The bodies are then torn up and scattered across the field, job done.</p><p></p><p>They really get the message from what I’ve seen so far. Pigeons on the other hand will keep coming until the last one is shot.</p><p>I remember hearing years ago about the importance of not letting them see the human silhouette - to prove the point, a shooter once wrapped himself in that red plastic netting that you see on road works. It was bright red but disguised his shape and the pigeons kept flying in.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1005032[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1005033[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CORK, post: 7902638, member: 2193"] I’m a complete novice at it (have had moderate success with pigeons in the past) but the crows seem to be a walk in the park so far. As the the crows fall, I go out periodically and arrange the dead crows so they appear to be sitting eating the crop amongst the decoys. Even those clever, horrid grey crows are a relatively easy shot as they are particularly nosey. You can see the odd wiser crow flying at a distance but most come right in close for the shot. They land into the wind. Crouching or using a camouflage fence is important so they don’t see the human standing silhouette. I have a camouflage veil over my face too. The bodies are then torn up and scattered across the field, job done. They really get the message from what I’ve seen so far. Pigeons on the other hand will keep coming until the last one is shot. I remember hearing years ago about the importance of not letting them see the human silhouette - to prove the point, a shooter once wrapped himself in that red plastic netting that you see on road works. It was bright red but disguised his shape and the pigeons kept flying in. [ATTACH type="full"]1005032[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]1005033[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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