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Information on decoys, blinds and calls. How to stage 
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is a very 
crafty bird as every 
shooter _ knows, 
j therefore one must 
fuse good judgment 
49 and extreme caution, 
vay When hunting 
; crows, if he has any 
4Sluck bagging the 
black boys. He is 
very sensitive to sight, sound or odor. 
He will avoid anything in his usual line 
of flight that is out of the ordinary or 
gives room for his suspicious instinct 
to warn him of danger and will in some 
unknown way convey to the remainder 
of the flight a warning which seems to 
be instantly obeyed and thereafter the 
flight will swerve around the point of 
danger although the flight at the given 
point may last for two or three hours. 
The greatest sport of crow shooting, 
in my judgment, is obtained by shoot- 
ing along these fly-ways, in the after- 
noon as the crows assemble and start 
for their roost which may be many 
miles away. The course the flight 
takes on certain days will be continued 
indefinitely until something occurs to 
excite fear in the crows at some point 
along the way, and thenceforth they 
will avoid that particular place, by 
changing their course or at least devi- 
ating from the original fly-way at that 
particular point. 
To shoot successfully on fly-ways 
one must construct blinds that are as 
nearly as possible a part of the land- 
scape, with open spaces at the top of 
the blind for shooting. If the flight 
crosses corn fields at the point you de- 
cide upon, it is well to construct your 
blind out of corn stalks within the fields, 
in the line of flight. If a woodland is 
crossed at the site you select for your 
shoot, then construct your blind out of 
branches, that in no way contrast with 
the surrounding timber, again leaving 
your loop holes at top of the blinds. 
We find that the foregoing applies to 
all blinds on fly-ways, that is make 
your blinds a part of the natural land- 
scape as nearly as possible. 
HEN the blinds are in readiness 
the shooters should conceal them- 
selves and stay concealed and quiet at 
all times until the sport is over, and it 
is our experience that it is not usual 
that a blind can be used but once, as 
thereafter the crows while following the 
same general line of flight each day, 
By J.B. sLANDRETH 
will avoid that particular spot there- 
after. 
Perhaps the best decoy for shooting 
in blinds is a large prairie owl, alive if 
possible, but a well mounted specimen 
will do. A tame crow makes a good de- 
coy or even a cripple, if he will caw 
and make a noise. A good crow-call is 
an absolute necessity in hunting crdéws 
at all times and especially in shooting 
from blinds. We like a wood frame 
call with reed, it being the favorite 
of our shooters. A practiced caller can 
be very successful in imitation of the 
different calls of the crow and can imi- 
tate these calls very closely and always 
succeed in calling crows within shoot- 
ing distance of his blind if he is cau- 
tious about showing himself or mak- 
ing any other noise to excite the crows. 
More crows may be killed by shoot- 
ing the crow roosts, but the sport is 
not so fine. After having located a 
roost, one must be careful not to molest 
it in any way until the plans for the 
shoot are all made, and on the evening 
the shoot is to take place, the shooters 
must assemble at a place remote from 
the roost and organize with a leader, 
and other shooters must conform at all 
times to the directions of the leaders 
and make no noise whatever in ap- 
proaching the roost, which approach 
should be made in single file after the 
leader and close up to him. 
HEN the leader has approached - 
within range of the roost, he will 
indicate his desire that the shooters 
line up with him and give the signal 
agreed upon to fire, which should be 
done all together in one complete salvo 
and then reload with as little noise as 
possible, and await the return of the 
crows which usually is not over ten 
or fifteen minutes, when the same pro- 
cedure occurs again on signal of the 
leader. If crow hunters will follow 
these instructions and not break cover 
to retrieve cripples between salvos the 
crows will return again and again if 
the roost has not been shot before, and 
shooters may bag an unlimited quan- 
tity -of crows in one evening. I have 
been on roost shoots that bagged over 
five hundred crows in one evening, and 
there have been hunts in this locality 
that bagged more than twice that many, 
but one must use due caution to suc- 
ceed in roost shooting and always be 
prepared with crow calls, and be able- 
It will identify you. 
