Weekend crow shooting.

[djmyers]

I finally thined out the flock of crows around here this last weekend. I slid the screen off the back window in the computer room adn have a perfect shooting lane at the bird feeder. I sit in the wifes tanning bed which makes a great shooting  seat. I knew id find a use for it. lol   Well saturday day when I got up nice and early there were crows everywhere outside just chowing down. SO I slid the window up and most hauled but. But there was one bold one that just nung out adn was looking right at me. SO he took the first shot. I let the JSB 8.4 gr fly. Went right through him and broke both wings. He hit the gorund like a rock not even a twitch. Then later that day whiel I was working on my boat I notice all kinds of them piled up behind my boat garage. SO I took a break from working on the boat and just took a seat up in the from of the garage. Took about 5 min and one landed then another and so on till I had about 5 to pick from. Poped one and they took off. He got just around the end of the house and hit the ground. Maybe 50 ft. Went and retreived him and threw it down where they were at and looky there  they came back quicker. Popped another and he fell right where he was standing. Hit 2 more after that. Both of those made it across the canal into the field. The 2 that fell dead in their tracks were shot all the way through braking both wings. The ones that flew were shot from front to back. The one that made it around the house was shot through the throat. Those are some tough birds! WIll be aiming for the wing breaking shots from now on, there heads move way to much. I got the 350 sighted up today so will see what a 10.65 gr does to them next weekend. Enjoy the pic and good shooting all.

[ShadowShot]

That's the way to knock em down.

[dk1677]

Nice shooting!

[cactusrat]

Djmyers, nice shooting. The three birds in your picture are common grackles. Noticed how just the head and neck is a shinny, bluish-purple. If a crow showed a shinny blue-purple, it would more or less be all over the body and never that intents. Also common grackles are a lot smaller.

[DougT]

Holy Cow!!!   5 crows in one day!!!!   Excellent.

That's a record book day.  Those birds are smart and wary.  If I get one I'm happy for the day.

[djmyers]

Thanks for the info on the bird id. Will look up grackles make sure not breaking laws.

And yeap 5 and could have had more if I had the time to just sit there. My boat garage is 30 ft front to back and they land about 10-20 ft back from the door. So I set up a chair by the front door and wait. They can't see where it's coming from. Works very well and the way the windows are I can take them off the bird feeder or off the back yard from the same shooting position.

[airiscool]

Nice shooting DJ.  

As Glenn pointed out, the head coloring looks like a Grackle, but the right hand two birds in your picture look Crow sized to me, and the shinny feathers are not even in how they stop at the body/wings. Could it be the angle of the lighting is playing tricks with the feather reflections

Paul.

[shadow]

Nice collection of pest there bud, great shooting and pic. Ed

[gamo2hammerli]

Great shooting....5 birds (Crows or Grackles) in a few hours is nothing to sneeze at.