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Dances With Crows

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A-Team Gets it Done in the wind
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 Boy what a hard hunt.  Last Saturday we had an invitation to hunt the same farm as two weeks ago but this time the wind was blowing 25mph and our hide was all wrong.  The farmer said the birds were back in there in good numbers but with Mr. Wind was in full command.  We went for it anyway and only managed to kill 6 birds in 45 minutes.  We knew from the start it was a bust, so we moved on to another one of his fields and only killed 2 more.  Did not stay there long either and converted to some R&G.  By 12:00 we only had taken 39 birds.  And by then the wind had increased some.  The guys turned to me and said man find us some birds............. Riding and riding and then I turned down a familiar road that we had taken a few years ago.  When we got to the field we had previously hunted in 2010 there was a few crows mealing around but the fields were planted in cotton so I rode down the road further and we saw more crows flying along a wood line back and forth toward the first field we came to.  With a little further effort to find the right woods for our hide which took another 15 minutes of riding but we worked it out.  We ended up being between the roost and the feeding grounds.  Another lucky find.  Also luck would have it that the trees were thick enough to block the wind from us, but on this set up the wind was in our favor.  We knew we would be a bit off the flyway but with the wind in excess of 25mph it carried the sound perfectly.  We stayed there until 4:00 and killed 101. Things slowed down so we decided to hunt back towards home.  On the way home about 20 miles up the road I spotted a large flock of birds feeding in a peanut field right by the highway and they all were rain crows.  Some were already heading to the roost so we stopped at the farmers home and asked if we could bother some of his crows for about 20 minutes, because it was getting late and dark thirty was on us.  He said yes and we quickly hit the woods right in their path to roost.  Knowing they were rains, we knew it was going to be shoot and kill as many as we could as fast as we could before they scattered.  Exactly what happend, we called and they all hit us at once.  They did hang up for about 15 minutes on a few cripples and that allowed us to kill a few more than we expected.  We got 31 of the bandits before their escape.  That rounded out our day at a TBC of 171.  That made our day and gave us a little more to talk about on the long ride home.



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