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Because we're all old and grey Rob. A few more years and the 20 gauge probably will be dominant.

Younger fellows who only have one shotgun without exception have a 12 gauge. They want to use it for everything.

Bill,
It is my belief that game birds just might fall out of respect for your beautiful Kettner!
Karl

Have you ever eaten the crows you take, Stan?

I have a receipe around here somewhere. I think it involves sauerkraut, onions, and bacon.

Might be like that to kill the taste of the crows.


Best,
Ted

Heavens, no! I see too many crows sitting on the highway eating carrion. I'd as soon eat a buzzard. Other than that, I am amazed at their level of intelligence. I have seen them do things that are just staggering. I was once working on a center pivot irrigation system and watched one light within .22 magnum range of me and my pickup, a lone crow in a tall snag. He watched me carefully as I worked, cawing occasionally with just one "caw". When I climbed down I walked over to my pickup and slowly reached in the back and picked up a shovel, then held it up over my head so he could see it clearly. I then pretended it was a rifle, put the blade to my shoulder and aimed the handle at the crow. He just sat and looked at me, giving another single "caw". I slowly laid it in the back of the truck, opened the door, reached in and got my .22 Magnum. I slowly held it up over my head for the crow to see, at which time he lit out in the other direction just as fast as if a shot had been fired at him. I knew then that a crow could learn the difference in a shovel and a gun.

If anyone doubts that the crow knew the difference, and just got ready to leave anyway, watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04

Happy Good Friday all

SRH

Animal behavior scientists have demonstrated that crows recognize human faces and act accordingly as to how they were treated by the individuals. Gil

Thanks, buddy. I'll have nightmares about Hitchcock's "The Birds" tonight. Oh yeah, I forgot, I always wear a face mask, so maybe they don't know what I look like.

SRH

Last I heard crows are the only animal yet seen figuring out and then doing three distinct actions in sequence, while creating and using tools, to accomplish a specific objective.

If intelligence is based on the ability to imagine and create a sequence of actions to achieve an end, crows are the most intelligent animal yet observed.

Takes the fun out of shooting them for me. They're too smart.

That is because you're weak. Crows are to birds what coyotes are to mammals. Successful small game management requires corvid control. I don't mind shooting them.

It's no fun shooting something that is stupid, James.

Crows are a real challenge, and yet at times they can do the dumbest things. Why they keep circling back when they see their cohorts being knocked out of the sky by those "loud sounds" I'll never understand.

Errrr, this is an upland gauge topic, supposedly ........ are crows upland birds?

SRH

You know nothing, JM