Who ya gonna call? Crow Busters

‘Crow Busters’ was created to help offer information, fellowship and products to crow hunters around the country.

Crow Busters shares techniques, fellowship for crow hunters

One of the Flintstones episodes you never saw was the time Fred and Barney managed to kill a pterodactyl on a weekend outing, then shortly after formed the Bedrock Chapter of PU — Pterodactyls Unlimited. Since that time, wherever hunters gather together to share tactics and stories about hunting it isn’t long until there’s a centrally located club that’s formed in support of those hunters. Crow hunting is no different.

Crow hunting reached its peak in popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. Crows were the ultimate villain during the WWII era, even stereotyped as being against the war effort in many popular political cartoons. Due to their destruction of important farm crops, the government even offered bounties on the bandits, and crows were killed by the millions.

Afterwards, thoughts of crows and crow hunting gave way to other hunting pursuits, and all but a handful of hunters even bothered hunting crows. After federal protection and with a rebounding population, crow hunting re-emerged in the mid-80s as a mainstay with varmint hunters. The crow-hunting population began to grow as hunters found an outlet a number of forgotten hunting skills, including camouflage tactics, hand calling, decoy use and wingshooting.

Amid this re-emergence, lifelong crow hunter Gordon Krause found a way to rally crow hunters together over the internet, creating the first-ever website dedicated to crow hunting. Today, www.crowbusters.com reaches out to thousands of crow hunters across the world, offering knowledge, fellowship and an outlet for purchasing crow-specific hunting gear through their online “CrowMart — The Crow Hunters Superstore”.

“Crow Busters was formed … to provide hunters with the information and resources that they will need to be a more successful crow hunter,” Krause offerd from the pages of his website. “It will also put crow hunters in contact with each other so that ideas, techniques and just plain fellowship can be shared. Hunters helping other hunters. That has been and will always be the driving idea behind Crow Busters.”

It also helps to answer that ultimate question for aspiring crow hunters — “Who ya gonna call?” For complete information, check out www.crowbusters.com.

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Phillip Gentry of Waterloo, S.C., is an avid outdoorsman and said if it swims, flies, hops or crawls, he's usually not too far behind.

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