This afternoon, 44-yards, JSB 44.75 @ 984 FPS, DRT. Will they never learn? WM 
Gotta Love that U2!
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Decided to place in tree with owl decoy. That's him upside down, behind decoy with wings swaying in wind, just like dead Captain Ahab, stuck on Moby Dick, waving to his crew. Freaked one crow out, took off like a rocket, screaming his head off. We'll see what the morning brings. WM
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Congratulations. I have only shot one crow and I think it was with my 177 and it fell DRT. Somebody else shot one with a 357. Maybe I was just lucky.
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Some feel that way, I've tried .22 and .25, too many fly-offs or dropped wounded. With woods behind and swamp past that, misses and pass-thrus pose little threat. Worse would be carcasses all around neighborhood as neighbors hate crows killing songbird nestlings, the crack-of-dawn raucous calls and trash pulled out of cans, but oppose killing. Real-world experience reflects fly-offs and dropped wounded almost non-existent with .30. WM
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Might be thinking of my Snowpeak M60B .35 "first blood" kill. FX 81 grain @ 670 FPS ended matters quickly. Bought M60B for armadillos, racoons and ferals but works for crows, too.
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Though i respect your right to kill them as you will. What actual harm are they doing to merit them being killed? Please understand that i have killed many critters and will continue to do so. But for me the King Crow and Ravens are off limits, they are simply a species apart…. Intelligent and wary, my dog Riley hates them and will not tolerate “flyovers”. I did in the past kill a few and the reaction of their brethren, their knowledge of what had happened, tempered my feelings towards them. From me? They always get a pass, Riley? No way…!
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30 gives you better margin of error and if you have a safety zone so past throughs aren't an issue, go for it. I hit one frontal in the chest with a 65 FPE 25 blew right through the body feathers coming out the back end. Drt. Another one it was a weak 177 at about 12 ft lbs just below the neck frontal shot keeled over without even a twitch. I've hit one in the body side shot at the wrong location with a 25 and it flew off. Shot location is everything unless you have larger expanding projectiles..
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Never bothered much in PA as the few around seemed to play a role in natural world. Retired to Florida in 2005 and found neighborhood under siege. Loud, raucous crack-of-dawn calls, songbirds wiped out from nest predation and whirlwinds of trash from raided cans. Neighbors shared frustrations, they'd tried banging pots/pans, "scarecrows," and decoy birds of prey, all to no avail. Didn't mention my plans but set up ground blind in woods behind house. For years, Crosman 760 only upset crows who enjoyed sitting out of range scolding me. Around 2020 discovered advances in airgun technology, embraced the hobby and "corrected" crow problem. Today, morning crow calls can be faintly heard, songbirds thriving and no trash blowing around. Plenty of crows exist, just not within my section of neighborhood. Neighbors are thrilled that bird flu resolved crow problem, I nod in agreement. WM
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pecking on my roof, very loud banging noises, waking me up with he unpleasant non-song sounds. No shortage of crows they are everywhere!
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No question, crows have been killed with BBs and .177s. Shot placement is critical but many times I find crows obscured by foliage so body mass is preferred shot. Through trial and error, I've concluded a fast, efficient ending to the matter is best accomplished by .30. My Vulcan 3 (700mm) is deadly accurate with 60 grain slugs but higher retained energy, as compared to pellets, is not desirable. WM
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The beauty of using a 177 is mine is so quiet no one can hear anything. You can be standing next to the gun and barely hear any sound but a click of the hammer and a whoosh of air. It appears the bird had a heart attack and fell from a tree.
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corn crop and during harvest damage 10k-25k$ a year. i'm sure you know the difference between a crow and raven, easy to tell them apart.
during a murder feeding or swarming, if any ravens are around, the crow will run the ravens off.
ravens are much larger than crows mainly the wing span.
i dont have the U2, but i have a fine U1 in .30 that has taken hundreds of crows during corn season
from planting to harvest.
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One of my coworkers has a golf course/marina where he's beeing shooting iguanas for years. A year or 2 ago they asked him to remove the crows as well as they were swooping down to pick up the golf balls and take them away lol.
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Uragan 2 has massive 34mm shroud with matching internal baffles, very silent even without moderator. WM
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