“ Smiling 
Bill 9 * 
says: 
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aint nothing of the kind All you have 
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use your brains mixed with plenty of 
elbow grease.” 
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CHICAGO ILLINOIS 
A Crow Shooting Contest 
DRASTIC MEASURES TAKEN BY NEBRASKANS TO 
RID THEMSELVES OF THE DESTRUCTIVE CROWS 
The fertile valley of the Elkhorn, with 
its lofty trees, has, for many years, pro¬ 
vided natural breeding places and boun¬ 
teous feeding grounds for crows. So 
numerous have they become that hun¬ 
dreds of acres of corn have been dam¬ 
aged or destroyed and thousands of 
young chicks, stolen by the black rob¬ 
bers. But like many evils they brought 
down punishment upon their heads be¬ 
cause of their numbers and bold depre¬ 
dations. 
Sportsmen of eight towns, two hun¬ 
dred and fifty in number, engaged in 
the contest. Two silver cups were hung¬ 
up as prizes; one to go to the high town 
and the other to the high gun in both 
counties. Shooters qualified by register¬ 
ing and paying a fee of two dollars. 
The money paid to be applied in pur¬ 
chasing prizes and providing a banquet 
at Norfolk, a city of ten thousand, lo¬ 
cated in Madison county. 
To add interest to the match, contes¬ 
tants were classified as follows: All 
shooters bringing in fifty or more pairs of 
crow’s feet were called “Aces” and thus 
earned a seat of honor at the toast¬ 
master’s table at the banquet. Those 
having less than fifty and more_ than 
twenty-five were called “Experts and 
sat at the second table. Less than 
twenty-five but fifteen or more drew a 
third table seat as “Amateurs.” Under 
fifteen and over five remained in the 
“Pothunter” class and were fourth table 
guests. But if there chanced to be one 
who garnered five or less pairs he would 
have to take a chance of getting at any 
table that was left. 
D URING the first half of the period 
crows were shot from blinds ex¬ 
clusively. Many ingenuous and effec¬ 
tive kinds of decoys were employed. The 
most popular was one termed "Flapper, 
a mechanical device, made of sheet iron 
and so arranged as to be worked froi 
the blind. The hunter pulled a wir 
and called, to attract attention of pass 
ing flocks. Curiosity is a crow’s chie 
failing and the pair of black wings fla] 
ping up and down as if possessed by 
crow feasting upon some choice morse 
lured thousands of them to an untimel 
death. 
During the last days of the match, an 
when large kills were desired, roost 
shooting by moonlight became a favorit 
pastime. Squads would organize an 
go forth armed with automatic shotgun: 
slipping quietly to a distance most effec 
tive and remain motionless until th 
great flock would settle down after th 
first flight. At a given signal from th 
leader volley upon volley would be fire 
into the fluttering ranks. In many ir 
stances fifty or seventy-five birds wer 
taken by a party of five thus operating 
Five shooters from Battle Creek, i 
Madison county, brought back five hur 
dred pairs of feet from one night’s bon 
bardment of roosts upon the shores c 
the Missouri river, in Burt count; 
However, it can be said in favor of th 
contestants that a very large portion c 
the crows killed were shot singly froi 
blinds or picked off from moving autc 
mobiles along the highways. 
Upon the 27th day of February, : 
five o’clock P. M., the last gun of th 
war was fired, and the thousands < 
trophys prepared for the final count. B 
two o’clock the afternoon of the follov 
ing day two hundred and fifty crov 
hunters, clad in hunting garments, coi 
gregated at Norfolk, Madison count 
where the count of feet took place. Tw 
large show windows at the hardwai 
store of Schurr & Seimsen were clean 
and set apart, one for each county. 1 
these windows were piled the feet as tl 
count progressed. The city w; 
thronged with visitors who watchf 
