Yesterday morning WadeS and I are reassembling his Mendoza with a new JM spring at my mini-storage shop. We hear this CAW-CAW sound close by. I grab my TF-89 that I always carry in the back seat of my truck and look around. There is a big, fatty crow on top of a power pole about 25 yards away. He is looking away and doesn't see us. I load an H-Point, set the AO and use the side of the OH door as stabilization. I wait for a couple seconds for it to turn a bit but it doesn't. Wade is urging me to shoot as they are skittish. I fire and you can hear the tell-take Thwack. The crow kinda jumps up about 6" and then falls straight down. The other 8-10 crows then throw a fit, cawing and flying around. We were frequently peering out the door seeing if any others had landed. As we walked over, trying to retreive the crow, we spotted one on a power drop to a nearby house, about 25 yards away. I just about shot at it but realized we're downtown and not in the cover of the shop anymore. Anyway, it fell inside a fence with barbed-wire on top so I didn't retreive it. Maybe tomorrow whent he gate is open.
Doug
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: atchman2March 15, 2010, 12:01:11 AM
Good shooting! I can never get close to the buggers. I'm on their most wanted list or something.
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: dk1677March 15, 2010, 01:29:32 AM
Nice shooting!
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: BentongMarch 15, 2010, 02:03:21 AM
Nice Shooting but remember what they say.....
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: 1377xMarch 15, 2010, 02:36:59 AM
nice shooting hope you get to retrieve your trophy
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: N_StrikeMarch 15, 2010, 06:49:05 AM
I promise you they are looking for you too! They are probably the most skittish critters around!
When the season rolls around here again in June, I'm going to grab some roadkill and "compost" it at my friend Jim's field. I see them all the time in the spring eating roadkill and making themselves roadkill :)