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Below are photos provided by successful members. If you wish to have your favorite photo posted here, email a scanned image to
staff@crowbusters.com or mail a photo to:
Crow Busters P.O. Box 6322 Timonium, MD 21093 Please include your name, membership number, date of hunt and any interesting details about the hunt. Note: Please send a copy of your photo, we are not able to return any photos. Thanks. | |
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"Coot" Connelly from Central New York and the results of a
successful hunt. While we don't endorse his field handling of
dead birds, we do applaud his enthusiasm. |
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Gary Clawson's son Alex from Lenoir, S.C. after an 18 degree
hunt in late January. They hunted for one hour and took 20 crows with
a 20 gauge Franchi. That's an average of one crow every three minutes.
Not bad! |
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Lee Abrahart (Great Britain) with a mixture of Carrion Crows,
Rooks and Jackdaws, all shot on a pig farm in southern England. It's
true, variety is the spice of life! |
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Keith McNealand friends after his town's crow shoot near the
PA/NY border. The shoot usually involves 20-25 two man teams. Nice
teamwork Keith and quite a crew you've got there!
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Stephen DeCourcy after a 5 bird kill with a total kill count of
23. Pretty impressive considering he used a Gamo Hunter with scope and
use the Gamo "Raptor" pellets. |
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Mark Wolfe after their last crow hunt of the 05-06 season. It
is Mark and and his brother in the picture and they scratched a
Wisconsin limit (30) on the very last day of the season! Nice way to
end the year! |
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Randy Troiani Jr. and his Dad after a great shoot at a feeding
setup in northeast PA. After listening to Bob's instructional CD and
using a Gibson call, they took nearly 80 birds. Beautiful! |
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Bob Jacobson after a desert hunt in the spring of 2006 using,
believe it or not, cardboard cutout decoys. Most of us think of the
desert as having few crows. Guess we were wrong! |
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Barry Klaasen after a March crow hunt with friend Stan
Alphenaar. The count is obvious! |
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David Beck, a
duck hunter for a few years, shot this crow but missed his buddy as
they came to visit his horse pastures in Starks, Louisiana. He says
that he was surprised at how challenging a sport this is. Keep at it
Dave. |
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James Marks with the successful results of a feeding
setup. He uses a E-caller to get them in and then turns it off and
goes to the hand call. Whatever you're doing Jim, it works! |
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Michael Kurtz after his first hunt of the season, September 24,
2005. He used a feeding setup in a corn field, but it was an extremely
slow day. |
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Ted Chick of Manitoba, Canada shot 17 crows in just under a
half hour on September 23rd 2005. These birds were feeding in a
sunflower field near his home. Ted says "Sorry guys, 17 less crows are
going to cross the border this fall!" That's OK Ted, I expect we will
prevent a few from coming back your way as well. |
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Zane Garrett after an October hunt in Hot Springs,
Arkansas. He used an e-caller and hand calls to bring them in, no
decoys. Nice goin'. |
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Paul Temple from the Midlands, United Kingdom shot these crows
with his 12 gauge Beretta al39. He says that he has a great decoy
frame that never fails, 20 minutes for this lot! Works 200% better
with a dead rabbit! Paul, we believe you! |
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Renny Gilliland shot this East Texas bird with a Gamo Shadow
1000 pellet rifle. Renny and his friend Kevin dropped 11 the same
month in four evening hunts. Who says you need to make a lot of noise
to kill crows! |
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Dan Sherwood after his first hunt of the season in upstate NY
took 104 crows using a feeding setup. If this is his first hunt, we
can't wait to see his season total! |
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Robert Bingel knocked this last crow of the season down on
March 18, 2005. We know how you feel Bob! |
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Jim Rudd on a California hunt in March of 2005 took the limit
of (24) birds hunting out of Grape Vineyards. Nice limit! |
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Massimo Venzin of Switzerland took these fine Imperial Crows
using his 12 gauge Beretta double in the Mesolcina valley near a small
city named Lostallo. All we can say is that we wish we
had a few of those Imperial Crows on this side of the Atlantic. |
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Member Graham [froggy] Holbrough
was shooting on the Scottish borders
using a couple of tips that he got off the site and of course his
Buster 2. Glad we could help. |
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Randy Spencer and a couple of crow hunting buddies, Bryan and
Grant. They were hunting in western KY, the Peabody Wildlife Area
using his Buster 2. He said that he called many crows, shot many
times, however only managed to bring down 5 crows. We know just how
you feel Randy! |
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Member Jeffrey Olsavicky and his
winning team in a local competition. Nice shooting and nice picture. |
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John Blair, Jr. marches to a different drum and hunts with a
Marlin 917V in .17HMR. Apparently he shot at this crow, missed and
then the bird made a fatal mistake and returned to the same branch
(simulated in red). Nice shot John, but we especially like your choice
of stock decorations. |
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Trev
Hawkins shot this bag early one morning on a nearby farm in
Lincolnshire, England. He says that his guest and himself have shot
over 2,000 crows in about six months. All we can say is "bloody good
shooting!" |
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Rich Fry's gang has taken 100+ birds six years in a row on
opening day in Illinois. Here is Joe Tanaglia and Curly Sommers with
128 of 153 day. |
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Phil B. Barbetta after a state land hunt near Litchfield CT in
November of 2004. Great day...overcast...cool but not cold and lots of
action!!! |
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Skip Deckman used his "Walking and Distress Calling" technique
to bag this nice double pair in an hour before work. |
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Eddie
Menegazzo with his first crow shot with a .410. This crow was shot
in Putman county, NY. Congratulations Eddie! |
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Stan Stewart managed to bag 2 crows with one shot while hunting
in Upstate NY. Two crows landed on the other side of an alfalfa field
285 yards away and he shot at the one on the left, only to be
surprised when a crow to his right dropped also. He is not sure
whether it was from the concussion or a bullet fragment, but he
suspects just bad luck! |
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Here
are the results of a mid-western crow hunt by member John Voehl.
Nice pile! |
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Member
Mike McCutcheon
poses with
with regular crow huntin' partner Chuck
Andre and his son Shawn on a cold day in Finger Lakes, N.Y. That's
dedication to the sport boys! |
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Mike Carr
poses with 40
of the 62 crows he shot one day near Clinton, N.J. Nice work! |
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Byron Rice after a successful winters day Ohio crow hunt. He
was assisted by his black lab who retrieved every one of them. Handy
dog! |
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Member
Gene Barth (right)
with friend
Bud Housel with 45 crows taken in Southern Maryland. Note the use of a
mounted fox to aggravate the birds. Seems to work well. |
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Jim Ligda (left) and friend from Indiana after his best crow
hunt ever. Nice going Jim! |
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Joe Tanaglia (friend of Rich Fry above) with 40 of a 225 bird
shoot in Illinois. Joe says this is the best single day shoot for the
"Hunt'n'Fry'M"
gang. Wow! |
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Rod Straight (right) and hunting partner Perry Hewett (prairie
dog) on one of their first hunts for crows near his home in Fort
Dodge, Iowa. Rod says he found them passing a friends gravel pit. He
waited and picked a fight with them on their return trip. |
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Joe Perkins took
these five birds with my NEF 17.HMR at Hatfield, Arkansas. He says
that he is very impressed with this new rimfire cartridge. We are too! |
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Mark Guerin took this beauty while duck hunting with his new
side-by-side. He says that he had a load of #4 steel in at the time. |
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Robert Scott used the "Run and Gun" technique to take this fine
collection of birds. What's more impressive is that he did it all with
a .22. |
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Larry Haire Jr (right) highest total ever in one day after
hunting a pecan orchard in Warren County, Georgia. Nice display Larry,
we can't wait to see it when your break 100. |
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Chris Reinhart of Pennsylvania took
these crows on the last Sunday of the season in a harvested pumpkin
field on a very windy day. He also managed to drop this piebald crow.
Nice hat too! |
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Will Trout (left) and friend after the results of a successful
evening hunt. |
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Nick Fowler (right) of Colorado with a few of the local birds.
In the center is first time hunter Brad. Thanks for passing along the
sport Nick. |
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Bob Irving and Reg Van Meter with the successful results of a
hunt in an East Texas pecan orchard. These boys have some serious crow
bustin' gear!. |
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Jeff Schneider and Jerry Tomlin (and friends) after a hunt in a
Georgia pecan orchard. Check out the empties surrounding the blind! |
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Doug Schutter with two 12 year old boys on their first crow hunt
in a corn field in Southern Michigan. Thanks for keeping the sport
alive Doug! |
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Björn Backeby of Alfta Sweden after a morning in the "hide" as
he calls it. Check out the Grey Back Crows. |
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Member
and firearms instructor Mike McNally shows that he knows how to
successfully use those firearms when hunting the black bandit. Mike
says he has been hunting crows for over 30 years. It sure shows! | |
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Michael Pajonk with a nice line of woods shot crows taken in
Southern New York. Mike says these crows all responded to a hand call. | |
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Kent Lidström busted these Greyback crows on an August hunt in
Sweden. Looks like Kent armed himself well for this hunt. | |
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Mike Rawlings with 140+ birds after a winter morning shoot at a
Wyoming feed lot (note owl decoy on top). Nice method of decorating
those hay bales Mike!
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Mike Rawlings after a successful feed lot shoot using the
extended "Metro Barrel". He said that it worked well and didn't scare
the sheep, calves or even the crows. | |
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This
nice pile of crows was taken by member Gary Mrozek during the
first week of the Minnesota crow season. Gary says that he has been
using motion decoys in his setups and it sure shows. | |
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Jeff Curtis of Blairsville, GA with a crow he believes had the West
Nile Virus (notice the condition of the birds neck and head). Jeff say
that he has taken a couple of other birds in this condition. | |
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These
Greyback Crows were taken at a landfill site in Northern Ireland by
member George Wilson. He says that they are slightly smaller
than the American crow but act the same as all crows. |
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Showing
a big smile, here is a photo of one of our youngest members Ross
Taylor of Lees Summit, Missouri and his first crow. Ross's dad Rick
Taylor is also a member as well as his uncle Logan. Nice to have the
entire family involved in our sport. | |
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Mark Schaller of Northern Michigan took these crows using a Crow
Distress call and full choked 12 gauge 870 Remington. Looks like a good
use of his Ghillie suit. | |
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Long time member
Adam Watkowski with the day's harvest of his late season honey hole located in York County, Pennsylvania. | |
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Patrick Harris never left his house to knock down these
13 birds. He hid in his garage and cranked up the Johnny
Stewart tapes. | |
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Jim Cook of Columbia, MO after a great hunt on Super
Bowl Sunday. Jim managed to drop 18 birds and still make in
back for the Super Bowl party. | |
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Dave Weirs from Michigan managed to drop two birds with
one shot from his varmint rig. Dave says they were both
feeding on a carcass. | |
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George Minor and his ultimate tribute to our
organization. We appreciate his lifelong commitment to Crow
Busters. Ouch! | |
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Dennis Cross (who is confined to a wheelchair) uses
his friends military jeep to hunt crows from. He says he backs the whole rig in deep brush and hangs the speaker from the
50 cal. I think we just found the official Crow Busters
hunting rig! | |
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Ed Thompson and Donnie Poe of St. Marys County, MD, and the results
of a successful hunt. Nice blind work boys! | |
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Crow
Staff Advisor Bob Aronsohn of Hutchinson, Kansas managed to take an
unbelievable 285 crows this day. Hey Bob, do you think you
could save a few for the rest of us? | |
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Shareque Haque (the Crowminator) on the right
with his buddies the Crow-Magnum and the Incrownacion
after taking a bonus crow on a Mexican dove hunt. Note the
sporty headgear made from a few wing feathers.
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Tom Jones of Fruitland Maryland with 82 birds after a
hunt with Crow Busters Co-Founder Doug Wigfield. Tom
sure looks serious about his crow hunting.
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Kim
Bolin (the Bushwacker) of Mulberry, Arkansas and the
"Crownies" on the last day of the 2000 season.
Some speculate that Kim's proud displaying of the Crow Busters
logo has increased his kill ratio.
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