I'm so proud of you to include a young man who is deaf. I have a daughter who is deaf too and I know of two hunters in MD that are totally deaf. Keep up the good works Bless you all.
I have a lot of respect I’ve got for Carson, on cold days I always sacrifice my ears to the bitter cold because hearing while hunting is such an invaluable part of my style, I cant hunt nearly as well when my ears are simply covered by a hat or hood. Here Carson is, seems like an excellent hunter and he’s doing it without that invaluable sense of hearing. Keep it up bud.
I’m not a hunter, and I admit this was a bit difficult for me to watch. Especially considering, as I have grown and lived in Michigan, I can remember a time when you never saw a crane, up to now where they are fairly common. I derive great joy seeing these birds flying overhead or feeding on a grassy hillside as I drive by. That said, I have no animosity to a legal hunt. While I don’t think I’d want to shoot one myself, I am sure curious to taste one. I’ve heard they are delicious, and I’m glad the numbers are high enough that we can have legal hunts. Now, what really inspired me to comment are all of these vicious anti hunting comments. If the people who are truly appalled by this are legitimate vegetarians, then OK, you can have your say. But if any of you negative nancies eat meat or chicken of any kind, I suggest you go spend a few days in a slaughterhouse and packing plant to see where your food REALLY comes from. You may realize that this crane hunt wasn’t as cruel or heinous as you originally thought. I have no doubt these birds will be joyfully and reverently prepared and consumed. In so doing, maybe a couple less cattle or chickens will go through the processor.
That was awesome, especially the interview with Carson! Proud of him and proud of y’all for the great footage you all produce! Keep up the good work and thank you for your entertaining videos!
Cows are majestic as well and I eat them . If you don’t like hunting footage don’t watch. Your comments are not going to deter hunters from doing what hunters do. As long as the hunt is legal and sustainable that is all that counts. I do agree with you on one thing it is a boring species to shoot and requires little skill. Great for kids to teach them bird hunting skills and good to work a young dog on. The retrieves are not challenging for the dog and give him or her experience working on large crippled birds.
It seemed like that to me at first because there are not many cranes where I live. I was 40 years old before I saw my first one. Then I went west and watched flocks of 15,000 - 20,000 fly out of one roost. I talked to a farmer who said he lost a 20 acre field to cranes. He waived us down and asked us to hunt them not us asking him. None went to waste they are very good eating.
They are starting to become like geese in Wisconsin, very over populated and smart enough to live in domestic areas. Had 2 raise 2 more this summer in city limits, and they were NOT afraid of people at all. Several times while working on my bikes in my garage, I had them walk in and took persuasion to make them leave. My main reason for keeping them around is they would chase all the bad dog owners away from my stretch of wetlands who tried walking their mutts here daily.
I started crane hunting last year late in the season here in West Texas. I have a lab now, and been working with him all year. We have been hittin the dove fields for the last week. To take him out on crane, I have a few questions. Is yalls dog wearing the vest to protect him from crane beaks or just because of cold weather? Secondly, I noticed your dog wasnt wearing the goggles. Should I invest now and get him used to wearing them, or just go without? Lastly, which crane call do yall recommend? Going to pick up a dozen or two socks in the next month and get ready! thanks!
That dogs gonna loose an eye, I trained my gsd to retrieve, but I will never allow her to retrieve a live crane again after it pecked her in the face, poked a hole in her lip and broke a tooth
They are in this area of Tn now, I have never hunted them, and don;t know much about them. Moved here from GA and had never seen them like this in NEGA. Are they good eating?
Love your guys intro gets me pumped to watch the vid. Love watching your guys channel and seeing your company grow. Keep of the great content and work. And keep on slaying them birds
I like hunting and understand what and why your are hunting, but the video hurts. I feed Sand Hill Cranes in my front yard in Florida, they often eat out of your hand. They have been a magical bird for me when I would listen to them way, way up in the sky flying over our house in Georgia ( when we lived there) each spring and fall. So to me they are magical bird and it hurts to see them killed. Yes I do hunt but never ever a Sand Hill Crane.
@gary newman Sandhill crane, if cleaned properly while fresh, and grilled medium rare, tastes, to me, like a really tender steak. I understand now why its referred to as "The Ribeye in the Sky". It beats teal duck in my honest opinion. Very tasty bird.
That’s awesome the young man loves to hunt! I have a son who was born deaf and is now 14 and loves to hunt! I showed him this video and he got happy! He now has 7 dozen divebombs and all he wants to use! Thank you for your support with the hard of hearing and deaf community!!
Definitely smart and would recommend, but Simba is steady and a very good listener. If the crane is lively and aggressive we just call him off or don’t send him at all.
@@littytitty4670 I am aware of that as my son hunts them. I am a hunter myself but have a hard time believing that many birds will be consumed. I hope so however. A good friend of mine went to S America years ago dove hunting on a business trip with clients. They shot around 20,000 doves per him. He said the locals took them. I still can’t get my head around that many birds being eaten. We give our pheasants to a local church for their annual game feed as I can’t or won’t eat that many.
Why would you say that? We shot eight deer so far, that is way more meat than those birds. We will eat on it all year, I'm sure it will be the same with these.
Great hunt guys, man that was great shooting and lots of Cranes! Where in Texas were you guys? Who was the outfitter? I live in Houston and crane hunting is on my bucket list.
There is a difference between hunting and shooting. I shot 19 woodchucks in one day with a .308 Win., K2.5 Weaver scoped, Savage 99 in 1964. Did not miss a shot. I never shot woodchucks again. If you "can't miss", it is simply executing wildlife, and is nothing to be proud of.
@@Patriottoo2 I regret I didn't save the woodchuck carcasses and skin and eat them. I was raised on a small farm in Vermont, and shot woodchucks because they ruined fields and made pastures dangerous. The only reason I shot so many in one afternoon was a horse farmer in South Woodstock, who never allowed anyone to hunt or shoot on his property, had a horse break a leg in a woodchuck hole. I happened to ask him for permission to shoot woodchucks the next day, and he granted it. I had a perfect shooting position at the base of a huge hayfield, shaped like a bowl, I put in ear plugs and also used soundproof ear muffs, opened a box or cartridges and placed them at hand, and began shooting. Since the woodchucks in the field had never heard gunfire, they were popping up seemingly everywhere out of curiosity. Some were 150 yards away, some 20 yards. Actually, they were popping up likes rats in a dump. When I had no more targets, I became aware of the farmer, about 200 yards away, standing in the doorway to his barn screaming at me to "get the hell off his property. I gave you permission to shoot woodchucks, not start a war.". I replied I would leave immediately when I had buried the dead wood chucks. A friend of mine, home from basic training in the Marine Corps, had been just next to me, firing as I had been, from a prone position with a scoped 30-06. Unfortunately, his scope mounts were loose, and he missed every shot. The combined noise of two high power rifles firing in quick succession, must have been deafening! My friend was a trapper, and before we pushed the dead woodchucks into their holes, my friend cut off their tails and strung them on a strong string. Just before we left, we found the farmer in his barn and showed him the string with sixteen tails on it. (We would collect three more by the end of the day.) He stared at the tails wide eyed, and exclaimed "I didn't know you were hitting any." Then he said, you fellows can shoot woodchucks on my property anytime you like. Just check in with me." E never went back. I had learned to hunt woodchucks with a .22 rimfire rifle. Shooting with a centerfire scoped rifle was just executing them. That day of slaughter gave me nightmares, and I have not hunted woodchucks for sport since. I am told they make "good eating", but with the coyote population very high in Vermont, there are now few woodchucks to be found.
As a farmer's son, I learned to drive a Ford 9N tractor and target shoot and hunt with a .22 rimfire by the time I was 10 years old. We caught most pest woodchucks on the farm with leg hold traps, but when my father believed we were "safe" hunters, he allowed my older brother and myself to hunt woodchucks on neighbors' land, after first gaining premission. I don't remember ever shooting more than 8 woodchucks in a summer with a .22, and had to stalk most of them to get within range. When my friend Richard came home from basic traing, he invited me to go woodchuck hunting with him. I borrowed my older brother's .308 Winchester, and we since we were using my friend's car, could easily drive along dirt roads and look for 'chucks. The horse farm owner lived only about two miles away from my father's farm, and was a notorious anti-hunter. Perhaps being on leave from the Marine Corps made by friend feel invinciable, but in any case, he drove into the farmer's yard at exactly the right time, since the farmer had just lost a valuable horse to a woodchuck hole. The reason why we shot so many was simply that for a few generations nobody had shot at anything on that farm, not even paper targets. Before we started shooting, there were about 10 "chucks in view. When we started shooting, it seemed they were popping up everywhere. Ther shooting was over in a couple of minutes. When there was no movement on the large hayfield, we took of our ear muffs, pulled out our ear plugs, and only then became aware of the farmer having a fit of rage in the doorway to his barn. I'll never forget his rage and the "I told you you could shoot woodchucks, not start a war!" The great irony of the story is that when a few years later I went to UVM in Burlington, a high school friend of mine lived just across from my small apartment on King St.. He borrowed a rifle from me one afternoon, and came home with a baby woodchuck in his shirt pocket. He had killed its mother, and when it crawled out of the burrow and tried to nurse, Greg brought it home and gave it to his young wife to raise for a pet. It became a wonderful pet, initially living in a rat hole under a kitchen counter, from which it would emerge everytime someone scratched at the "doorway". By fall, it had grown so much and was so acclimated to people, that when college boys gathered to watch a football game, we always poured "Chucky" a half a beer, which he drank and then fell asleep on the couch. When time for hibernation arrirved, Chucky was released on the grounds of the St. Gaudins estate in Cornish, N.H.. In the spring, it was found scratching at the caretaker's kitchen screen door, and had four little chucks to introduce.@@patriottoo2revelle331
No reason? They have a lot of numbers so they need a few taken out. They are also very good to eat. Food that is wild is much healthier than your store bought meat, no added chemicals.
Great content. Had to check to see how yummy this critter is and sounds good. Jealous I cant have some. Where in West Texas? Close family has a bunch of land in Fisher County and another couple K acres adjacent to Sweetwater. Occasionally see crane overhead but never in any of the tanks. Mainly go for the hog...And coyote.
Cranes are splendid and intelligent birds. I can understand taking a few, though I wouldn't. To annihilate them in this way is greedy and horrible. It goes to show that the laws for many species are far too liberal in limit and biased toward the sportsman against the best practices for the species. You can bet the game warden wanted to be sick when he saw the take.
As long as they are legal, the game Warden won't care. Why is it greedy if they eat all of them? Is it greedy if you buy a lot of meat at the same time? It's the same thing.
@@nw1858 No, it isnt. Cows are not at risk every single moment of their lives from being blasted out of existence every time they stop to rest, eat or drink. Their fate is predetermined, true, but we plan and breed what we need to provide protein. Wild animals and birds are fighting to survive every moment, and their lives are filled with struggles for food and everything else they need. Also, if you hear or see them fly over, they are wonderful and have sweet voices. They exist and add grace and beautify the world for us. It's not just killing commodity meat. There needs to be a reverence and thanks when a hunter takes a life to eat. Indigenous people understand this.
@@cobaltcanarycherry those birds are overpopulated in some areas. Once an animal has to many numbers in one area a disease will pop up and kill them off(it's happening with deer now in some areas) also if there are not enough predators to eat them then they will get old and weak and not be able to function like normal, it will suffer and die. If you keep the numbers at a good level then they will be healthy and strong. If they didn't have the numbers then the states will eliminate the hunting season to persevere them. Hunters always want healthy animals and numbers. Don't get me started on domesticated animals that have no freedom and are full of chemicals.
You literally have no clue what your talking about!!!! Hunting limits are closely regulated on many how there are if they species, ti keep them as healthy as possible! To many and they would die off from many different reasons, hunters are good for the health of animals!!!!!!
I'm guessing you just go to the store to get meat. You just pay for someone else to kill your food easier than these guys did. As long as it's legal, who cares.
@@yuriklaver4639 to put them in the freezer and eat them later. The season only lasts for a little while. They're also very overpopulated in some areas and need to be thinned out.
If you buy meat from the store then you're just hiring somebody else to kill it. When it dies it's tied up and restrained there so I wouldn't consider that an honorable way of killing something.
Because their numbers are healthy enough that it doesn't hurt for them to be thinned out to make sure that the rest of them are healthy, they also taste very good. They're one of the best tasting birds that you can hunt.
I'm so proud of you to include a young man who is deaf. I have a daughter who is deaf too and I know of two hunters in MD that are totally deaf. Keep up the good works Bless you all.
Glad you enjoyed my chat with Ashur at the end
Carson is an incredible shot and even better person!!
I have been working on sign language but I couldn't keep up with your dad! 🤣🤣 yall are beasts! Keep it up sniper!
I have a lot of respect I’ve got for Carson, on cold days I always sacrifice my ears to the bitter cold because hearing while hunting is such an invaluable part of my style, I cant hunt nearly as well when my ears are simply covered by a hat or hood. Here Carson is, seems like an excellent hunter and he’s doing it without that invaluable sense of hearing. Keep it up bud.
Lol when you don’t have ears. Your other 4 senses are really heightened especially eyes.
You are going to end up deaf. You should purchase some quality hearing protection to save your hearing.
I appreciate what y’all do I’m a hunter myself I lost my dog on July 21 and his name was simba I’m from South Dakota and I love watching you guys hunt
😢😢😢
Congratulations to the hunting team for a successful trip, and kudos to your little dog, it's truly amazing.
Man that interview with Carson was my favorite part of the video!! That was awesome and goes to show that y’all are a good group of guys!
He’s a special young man. Lucky to get to share a blind with him!
Glad you liked it!
I’m not a hunter, and I admit this was a bit difficult for me to watch. Especially considering, as I have grown and lived in Michigan, I can remember a time when you never saw a crane, up to now where they are fairly common. I derive great joy seeing these birds flying overhead or feeding on a grassy hillside as I drive by. That said, I have no animosity to a legal hunt. While I don’t think I’d want to shoot one myself, I am sure curious to taste one. I’ve heard they are delicious, and I’m glad the numbers are high enough that we can have legal hunts.
Now, what really inspired me to comment are all of these vicious anti hunting comments. If the people who are truly appalled by this are legitimate vegetarians, then OK, you can have your say. But if any of you negative nancies eat meat or chicken of any kind, I suggest you go spend a few days in a slaughterhouse and packing plant to see where your food REALLY comes from. You may realize that this crane hunt wasn’t as cruel or heinous as you originally thought. I have no doubt these birds will be joyfully and reverently prepared and consumed. In so doing, maybe a couple less cattle or chickens will go through the processor.
Probably the best hunting video I've seen yet. Nicely done.
Cranes migrate thru Nebraska, can't hunt but their breeding dance is fantastic.
I think I heard the dog called Deacon. That is the name of my 14 year old Aussie! He retrieved a pile of ducks for me back in his day.
i love to hear the cranes in the morning and evening, none came this year, idaho.
hmmm
We have hundreds of thousands every year in Texas
A mating pair came this spring and raised two young on the Bear River Idaho.
Wow! That dog is a STAR!!!
That was awesome, especially the interview with Carson! Proud of him and proud of y’all for the great footage you all produce! Keep up the good work and thank you for your entertaining videos!
So true, ngl I wish the interview was longer
This is the first video I’ve ever seen of hunting cranes
seems like a majestic bird to be doing that to. also, how could you even miss the things?
Cows are majestic as well and I eat them . If you don’t like hunting footage don’t watch. Your comments are not going to deter hunters from doing what hunters do.
As long as the hunt is legal and sustainable that is all that counts. I do agree with you on one thing it is a boring species to shoot and requires little skill. Great for kids to teach them bird hunting skills and good to work a young dog on. The retrieves are not challenging for the dog and give him or her experience working on large crippled birds.
If you buy meat from the store you are just paying someone else to kill it. These guys are doing it the right way.
It seemed like that to me at first because there are not many cranes where I live. I was 40 years old before I saw my first one. Then I went west and watched flocks of 15,000 - 20,000 fly out of one roost. I talked to a farmer who said he lost a 20 acre field to cranes. He waived us down and asked us to hunt them not us asking him. None went to waste they are very good eating.
@@natcalverley4344 majestic is not a term i ever used on a cow
@@jimmcgregor4598 Indians do, ...the freaks! ruclips.net/video/fHdYLQiFsyo/видео.html
100% my favorite video of the season. The groups comradery was outstanding. People should strive for hunts like this even without the limits! 🙌
Can’t ask for better company!
Same
simba looks like the cocker spaniel in the scotland video, thems some big birds
They are starting to become like geese in Wisconsin, very over populated and smart enough to live in domestic areas. Had 2 raise 2 more this summer in city limits, and they were NOT afraid of people at all. Several times while working on my bikes in my garage, I had them walk in and took persuasion to make them leave. My main reason for keeping them around is they would chase all the bad dog owners away from my stretch of wetlands who tried walking their mutts here daily.
here in tennessee id say we have more sandhills make it down than i’ve ever seen
Oh my ..it is like a firing squad for cranes.
I started crane hunting last year late in the season here in West Texas. I have a lab now, and been working with him all year. We have been hittin the dove fields for the last week. To take him out on crane, I have a few questions. Is yalls dog wearing the vest to protect him from crane beaks or just because of cold weather? Secondly, I noticed your dog wasnt wearing the goggles. Should I invest now and get him used to wearing them, or just go without? Lastly, which crane call do yall recommend? Going to pick up a dozen or two socks in the next month and get ready! thanks!
Any luck?
Notice from 12:46- 14:23, hunter slaps his thigh while talking about 20 times
Hahaha! 👋🏼
What brand of blinds were you using?
What crane call are you all using if you don’t mind me asking?
The interview was excellent, Lowkey why doesn’t this channel have a podcast? Like where they interview people about hunting in general
Awesome video! You boys wrecked some Cranes. Loved the morale and fun easy-going nature from the guides. SUBSCRIBED!!
Man, in Montana we get a limit of ONE per season
That is so they can shoot more in the south
It looks fun, but I can't imagine hunting with like 7 other guys stacking on top of one another. It's like a firing squad.
How good are there birds to eat? How do they taste?
That dog got 2 weeks worth of tail wagging in 1 day.
What size shot do you use for crane? I’m assuming steel shot since they are migratory.
That dogs gonna loose an eye, I trained my gsd to retrieve, but I will never allow her to retrieve a live crane again after it pecked her in the face, poked a hole in her lip and broke a tooth
They are in this area of Tn now, I have never hunted them, and don;t know much about them. Moved here from GA and had never seen them like this in NEGA. Are they good eating?
They are called ribeye in the sky for a reason, I wish I had a place to hunt them.
How did you get Chris Johnson on your show?! Dude is a beast!
That’s my uncle right there lol, he hunts with us!
@@carsonfleet7474 Chris Johnson is your uncle?
@@goodkrypollo1706 yessir
@@carsonfleet7474 That's pretty awesome. Tell him some random guy on youtube said hey XD
I hope you all eat these instead of just the sport of killing them, doesn't seem like much sport in killing them
Ribeye of the sky!!
Love your guys intro gets me pumped to watch the vid. Love watching your guys channel and seeing your company grow. Keep of the great content and work. And keep on slaying them birds
Appreciate you watching Ethan!
Just a question? Do you eat them?
OK with wings that big, I gotta ask.... Y'all ever cook up some Buffalo Crane Wings? I bet those would be epic.
Carson the man! God bless u bro.
God bless you too dude
He’s the best!
Cranes are a bucket list hunt for sure. In my opinion best video yet! Keep them coming.
Thanks for watching James!
I like hunting and understand what and why your are hunting, but the video hurts. I feed Sand Hill Cranes in my front yard in Florida, they often eat out of your hand. They have been a magical bird for me when I would listen to them way, way up in the sky flying over our house in Georgia ( when we lived there) each spring and fall. So to me they are magical bird and it hurts to see them killed. Yes I do hunt but never ever a Sand Hill Crane.
I’m the same and also with beautiful doves
We hunt them and gather their eggs in Western AK, one of the best tasting birds.
You all pounded those cranes.
Great Work Braddahs! Happy New Year! 😏🤙🏾
Thank you my friend!
those must be the most shot filled birds around.
Do you eat them are they any good
How do they taste? Do you guys eat what you harvest? I just had a chance to hunt over your decoys in Arkansas. It was unreal!!!
Crane are the absolute best! We actually ate these birds that night!
There's a reason they're called 'Ribeye of the sky'.
@gary newman Sandhill crane, if cleaned properly while fresh, and grilled medium rare, tastes, to me, like a really tender steak. I understand now why its referred to as "The Ribeye in the Sky". It beats teal duck in my honest opinion. Very tasty bird.
@@divebombsquad you ate all of them ?
Wow, I'm impressed 🙂👍
I know I’m not the only one who is wandering who is the guide service that cancelled on the divebomb guys😂
Didn’t have a shoot they felt good about so it’s all good. We appreciated the honesty!
Lol I’m back for the 3rd time at the beginning good vid
Appreciate you watching man!
We don't get to shoot them in NE. Didn't even know they were hunted to this video.
I love the vids and the hunt but geez how many shots y’all need to knock down one… anyway , awesome footage as usual!!!
That was an absolute bomb of a video! Well done!
Thanks Jordan!
That’s awesome the young man loves to hunt! I have a son who was born deaf and is now 14 and loves to hunt! I showed him this video and he got happy! He now has 7 dozen divebombs and all he wants to use! Thank you for your support with the hard of hearing and deaf community!!
That’s absolutely awesome! We appreciate the support from you guys!
Haven’t these guys heard of geese? Who the fuck shoots cranes
They're overpopulated in some areas. Just like geese
They taste better than geese.
Do they taste any good?
They are so good to eat
The problem with hunting with that many people in the same location, each bird will have a pound of shot and look like swiss cheese.
Are these good eating? I really never seen hunting for cranes before
They have a nickname. Ribeye of the sky. Never tried it myself but have heard they taste great.
Ate one years ago. Oven baked. Taste like roast beef. Can slice it paper thin it was so firm
protected in Florida
Absolutely awesome video all the way around! Go Carson!
just killing for fun
Men being men, the way God intended! Nice.
I wish I had a group of guys to do this with.
Wtf is Chris Johnson doing just casually in this video
Haha, right?! Absolute stud!
that’s my unc right there! Hahah
need some goggles on them pups
Definitely smart and would recommend, but Simba is steady and a very good listener. If the crane is lively and aggressive we just call him off or don’t send him at all.
Is dat nodig om kraanvogels te schieten
het is niet nodig, ook niet moeilijk.
How many of those birds were consumed I wonder
Not many I’ll guarantee
@@arthurbrumagem3844 why do you think that? Sand hill crane is one of the best eating birds around.
@@littytitty4670 I am aware of that as my son hunts them. I am a hunter myself but have a hard time believing that many birds will be consumed. I hope so however. A good friend of mine went to S America years ago dove hunting on a business trip with clients. They shot around 20,000 doves per him. He said the locals took them. I still can’t get my head around that many birds being eaten. We give our pheasants to a local church for their annual game feed as I can’t or won’t eat that many.
Why would you say that? We shot eight deer so far, that is way more meat than those birds. We will eat on it all year, I'm sure it will be the same with these.
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So none yet it sounds like
Taking some chances with your dog loosening his eyes
Great hunt guys, man that was great shooting and lots of Cranes! Where in Texas were you guys? Who was the outfitter? I live in Houston and crane hunting is on my bucket list.
This was in Lubbock with Final Descent Guide Service. Hunter Pickett is the man!
There is a difference between hunting and shooting. I shot 19 woodchucks in one day with a .308 Win., K2.5 Weaver scoped, Savage 99 in 1964. Did not miss a shot. I never shot woodchucks again. If you "can't miss", it is simply executing wildlife, and is nothing to be proud of.
Did you harvest the chucks to eat?
@@Patriottoo2 I regret I didn't save the woodchuck carcasses and skin and eat them. I was raised on a small farm in Vermont, and shot woodchucks because they ruined fields and made pastures dangerous. The only reason I shot so many in one afternoon was a horse farmer in South Woodstock, who never allowed anyone to hunt or shoot on his property, had a horse break a leg in a woodchuck hole. I happened to ask him for permission to shoot woodchucks the next day, and he granted it.
I had a perfect shooting position at the base of a huge hayfield, shaped like a bowl, I put in ear plugs and also used soundproof ear muffs, opened a box or cartridges and placed them at hand, and began shooting.
Since the woodchucks in the field had never heard gunfire, they were popping up seemingly everywhere out of curiosity. Some were 150 yards away, some 20 yards. Actually, they were popping up likes rats in a dump. When I had no more targets, I became aware of the farmer, about 200 yards away, standing in the doorway to his barn screaming at me to "get the hell off his property. I gave you permission to shoot woodchucks, not start a war.". I replied I would leave immediately when I had buried the dead wood chucks.
A friend of mine, home from basic training in the Marine Corps, had been just next to me, firing as I had been, from a prone position with a scoped 30-06. Unfortunately, his scope mounts were loose, and he missed every shot. The combined noise of two high power rifles firing in quick succession, must have been deafening!
My friend was a trapper, and before we pushed the dead woodchucks into their holes, my friend cut off their tails and strung them on a strong string. Just before we left, we found the farmer in his barn and showed him the string with sixteen tails on it. (We would collect three more by the end of the day.) He stared at the tails wide eyed, and exclaimed "I didn't know you were hitting any." Then he said, you fellows can shoot woodchucks on my property anytime you like. Just check in with me." E never went back.
I had learned to hunt woodchucks with a .22 rimfire rifle. Shooting with a centerfire scoped rifle was just executing them. That day of slaughter gave me nightmares, and I have not hunted woodchucks for sport since. I am told they make "good eating", but with the coyote population very high in Vermont, there are now few woodchucks to be found.
@@chriscoughlin9250 That's quite a story. I never knew woodchucks were that numerous, so as to become the pests you describe. Thanks for replying.
As a farmer's son, I learned to drive a Ford 9N tractor and target shoot and hunt with a .22 rimfire by the time I was 10 years old. We caught most pest woodchucks on the farm with leg hold traps, but when my father believed we were "safe" hunters, he allowed my older brother and myself to hunt woodchucks on neighbors' land, after first gaining premission.
I don't remember ever shooting more than 8 woodchucks in a summer with a .22, and had to stalk most of them to get within range.
When my friend Richard came home from basic traing, he invited me to go woodchuck hunting with him. I borrowed my older brother's .308 Winchester, and we since we were using my friend's car, could easily drive along dirt roads and look for 'chucks.
The horse farm owner lived only about two miles away from my father's farm, and was a notorious anti-hunter. Perhaps being on leave from the Marine Corps made by friend feel invinciable, but in any case, he drove into the farmer's yard at exactly the right time, since the farmer had just lost a valuable horse to a woodchuck hole.
The reason why we shot so many was simply that for a few generations nobody had shot at anything on that farm, not even paper targets. Before we started shooting, there were about 10 "chucks in view. When we started shooting, it seemed they were popping up everywhere. Ther shooting was over in a couple of minutes. When there was no movement on the large hayfield, we took of our ear muffs, pulled out our ear plugs, and only then became aware of the farmer having a fit of rage in the doorway to his barn. I'll never forget his rage and the "I told you you could shoot woodchucks, not start a war!"
The great irony of the story is that when a few years later I went to UVM in Burlington, a high school friend of mine lived just across from my small apartment on King St.. He borrowed a rifle from me one afternoon, and came home with a baby woodchuck in his shirt pocket. He had killed its mother, and when it crawled out of the burrow and tried to nurse, Greg brought it home and gave it to his young wife to raise for a pet. It became a wonderful pet, initially living in a rat hole under a kitchen counter, from which it would emerge everytime someone scratched at the "doorway".
By fall, it had grown so much and was so acclimated to people, that when college boys gathered to watch a football game, we always poured "Chucky" a half a beer, which he drank and then fell asleep on the couch.
When time for hibernation arrirved, Chucky was released on the grounds of the St. Gaudins estate in Cornish, N.H.. In the spring, it was found scratching at the caretaker's kitchen screen door, and had four little chucks to introduce.@@patriottoo2revelle331
What is your point deadeye?
Keep up the great hunts. Love your products!
Thanks for watching and thanks for your support!
What’s the sport in that ? Could’ve killed them with a fly swatter. What’s with the maniacal laughter ?
Then go do it then, why argue.
Yall are risky running a dog with cranes without goggles. Cool videos though.
cool! You eat cranes? I never knew that!
You must be so proud of yourselves, blowing away innocent, defenseless animals for no reason. You guys are real men.
No reason? They have a lot of numbers so they need a few taken out. They are also very good to eat.
Food that is wild is much healthier than your store bought meat, no added chemicals.
Hunting for 50 years but this is just an execution. If you are not eating them, then I think you will burn in hell.
They are called ribeye in the sky for a reason.
why are you shooting these crains? do you eat them?
Do you guys eat these things or do you just kill them to kill them
I would hope they would eat them. Anything referred to as "the ribeye of the sky" sounds delicious
great hunt but I don't like to hunt with that many guys unless some shoot while others don't at times - 14 guns firing at 4 birds is no fun for me
Good job guys keep up the great work👍🏻and 1 question can you guys hunt ducks and geese all year round?
No sir, we can’t hunt waterfowl year round, but we all love turkey hunting and fishing so we find ways to stay occupied! Haha
Thanks for answering my question in New Zealand we only one season a year and the main things we shoot are mallards 🦆 and Canada geese
Great content. Had to check to see how yummy this critter is and sounds good. Jealous I cant have some. Where in West Texas? Close family has a bunch of land in Fisher County and another couple K acres adjacent to Sweetwater. Occasionally see crane overhead but never in any of the tanks. Mainly go for the hog...And coyote.
Go west of Big Spring, there's tons of "Sand Hill" cranes around Stanton up to Tahoka! Tons, you can't miss...
What kind of dog is simba?
I think Vizsla. I was just scrolling the comments for this.. he looks just like my dog, same color, tail, extra neck chub
Cranes are splendid and intelligent birds. I can understand taking a few, though I wouldn't. To annihilate them in this way is greedy and horrible. It goes to show that the laws for many species are far too liberal in limit and biased toward the sportsman against the best practices for the species. You can bet the game warden wanted to be sick when he saw the take.
As long as they are legal, the game Warden won't care. Why is it greedy if they eat all of them?
Is it greedy if you buy a lot of meat at the same time? It's the same thing.
@@nw1858 No, it isnt. Cows are not at risk every single moment of their lives from being blasted out of existence every time they stop to rest, eat or drink. Their fate is predetermined, true, but we plan and breed what we need to provide protein. Wild animals and birds are fighting to survive every moment, and their lives are filled with struggles for food and everything else they need. Also, if you hear or see them fly over, they are wonderful and have sweet voices. They exist and add grace and beautify the world for us. It's not just killing commodity meat. There needs to be a reverence and thanks when a hunter takes a life to eat. Indigenous people understand this.
@@cobaltcanarycherry I was with you until the indigenous people comment. Learn to judge people by the content of their character. Race baiter.
@@cobaltcanarycherry those birds are overpopulated in some areas. Once an animal has to many numbers in one area a disease will pop up and kill them off(it's happening with deer now in some areas) also if there are not enough predators to eat them then they will get old and weak and not be able to function like normal, it will suffer and die. If you keep the numbers at a good level then they will be healthy and strong.
If they didn't have the numbers then the states will eliminate the hunting season to persevere them.
Hunters always want healthy animals and numbers.
Don't get me started on domesticated animals that have no freedom and are full of chemicals.
You literally have no clue what your talking about!!!! Hunting limits are closely regulated on many how there are if they species, ti keep them as healthy as possible! To many and they would die off from many different reasons, hunters are good for the health of animals!!!!!!
QQ - are they good eats?
Delicious. They are referred to as Ribeye in the Sky.
Great video.
Why are you killing them?
Dinner
What an awesome hunt!! Good shooting boyz!!!
Thank you sir!
Can you eat them? Or are they a pest?
They are very good eating. They are call the ribeye in the sky...
@@stevefowler6039 good I don't like Pele kill animals without a reason...pest or food are OK..
These guys are not sorts hunters. They don’t even fall in the category of hunting just slaughtering game birds
Don't worry about it, they are doing it lawfully.
They had to decoy, call, and figure out how to get them in. The birds aren't just flying over. Trust me on that one. That's HUNTING at its finest.
Let us decimate these pesky birds to extinction.
I heard they are great eating, yes?
Ribeye of the sky!
Are they good eating?
I found it very odd to describe someone who hunts for food, or conservation as a "Stone Cold Killer".
It's an expression. Derp
When ever I didn't get it my dad said...."You must have a dirty carburetor"......that applies to you.
No hunting skills involved just ambushing a defenseless bird...real tough guys.
I'm guessing you just go to the store to get meat. You just pay for someone else to kill your food easier than these guys did.
As long as it's legal, who cares.
@@nw1858 Why would they kill so many of them?
@@yuriklaver4639 to put them in the freezer and eat them later. The season only lasts for a little while. They're also very overpopulated in some areas and need to be thinned out.
You guys are awesome, helluva shoot 🤙🏻🤙🏻
Thanks for watching bud!
Не можу дивить на вбивство таки птахів, та ще коли в твоїй країні вони охороняються законом
Alo bien sus cazerias amigos saludos chebres
Cheers!
Awesome hon
Karma. You don’t kill with honor. You will reap what you sow.
If you buy meat from the store then you're just hiring somebody else to kill it. When it dies it's tied up and restrained there so I wouldn't consider that an honorable way of killing something.
why did you need to shoot any of them?
Because their numbers are healthy enough that it doesn't hurt for them to be thinned out to make sure that the rest of them are healthy, they also taste very good. They're one of the best tasting birds that you can hunt.
Great video
Thanks Evan!
They are so good to eat.