Calling in crows and magpies, any tips?

murph226

I just picked up a Lockvogel electronic caller and hope to go out in the morning to get a few crows around the cow sheds on one of my permissions.


Any tips or things to watch out for?


There is a facility on the caller to plug in a bigger speaker, should I use one or what kind of volume should I play it at?


I've shot plenty of crows there already without the caller but they are slow to come back once I nail a couple of them, they always stay out of range.


Once I nail a few of them is there anyway I can arrange them on the ground as decoys to help draw the others in?

Edit: Forgot to mention I'm using a .22 Weirauch HW100 air rifle, zeroed for thirty yards.

Kaye_223

murph226 wrote: »

I just picked up a Lockvogel electronic caller and hope to go out in the morning to get a few crows around the cow sheds on one of my permissions.


Any tips or things to watch out for?


There is a facility on the caller to plug in a bigger speaker, should I use one or what kind of volume should I play it at?


I've shot plenty of crows there already without the caller but they are slow to come back once I nail a couple of them, they always stay out of range.


Once I nail a few of them is there anyway I can arrange them on the ground as decoys to help draw the others in?

Edit: Forgot to mention I'm using a .22 Weirauch HW100 air rifle, zeroed for thirty yards.

If it's an air rifle your using it's best to not use an electronic caller on its own because they won't land ! They will fly over all right so a shot gun is your man , if you want success with the air rifle try baiting a spot with grain or a dead rabbit , and hide in the ditch 30 yards away the mags will come in and sit for you

murph226

I usually shoot them from a wire where they land above a load of feed, I thought the caller would draw more in and keep them a bit closer?

I'll try the dead rabbit and see how I get on, thanks!

goss101

got a call myself at the weekend to clear out a few at a farmers shed, ended up with a good bag of 65 mixed corvids and only 1 magpie, but i was using the shotgun, don't think i'd of got too many if i was waiting for them to land, was blowing a gale and i had to take a lot of high shots.
used the dead birds to gradually build up a nice decoy pattern to get them in close enough.
as for electronic callers i got hammered on here before for using them so lets just say i wasn't using one. nor was i using a Primos Power Crow call.

hedzball

moreau118

wouldnt like ur chances of getting a magpie at 30 yards there the sneakiest little bas***ds very hard to get close to have one dodging me in my garden for the last month its like he nos what the shotgun is will sit untill he see the gun

jazzdude18

Hi all,

Here's a question to all you hunters with the guns,
Do you personally think Crows are evil?,

as in, 'crows,snakes,crocs', its like they're evil.


but crows are on a new level, and they even have a part in the brain that's more advanced than humans.

crows are really insane, maybe not really insane, but pretty insane.

rsole1

jazzdude18 wrote: »

Hi all,

Here's a question to all you hunters with the guns,
Do you personally think Crows are evil?,

as in, 'crows,snakes,crocs', its like they're evil.


but crows are on a new level, and they even have a part in the brain that's more advanced than humans.

crows are really insane, maybe not really insane, but pretty insane.

Is it not time for your medication?