I Ask You: Would you like to shoot crows all day?

Say you have nothing to do one day next winter.

Would you pay someone up to $200 to join a one-day crow hunt? And blast at crows all day because they appear to be a persistent problem?

If it appeals to you, you may soon be able to drive to Chatham-Kent and slip in behind two local hunting buddies (link to Feb. 12 London Free Press article), tramp through farm fields and kill as many crows as you can bag in a day.

Because one of the buddies uses dead crows as bait for coyotes, supposedly rampant in Chatham-Kent as well, maybe you’ll be able to get in on that shoot-out someday soon.


[Photo: BOB BOUGHNER, Chatham Daily News]

Now, I’m not sure if ‘bag’ or ‘shoot-out’ are proper hunting terms or if the business of slaughtering crows will give brand new meaning to the phrase ‘a murder of crows,’ but I ask you, does crow- and coyote-hunting sound like a suitable business plan?

I could see it if crows and coyotes were an important food source for humans.


["We eat squirrels, don't we? Why not crows?": photo link]

After all, we slaughter chickens, cows, pigs and fish every day without batting an eye, eat our fill in many cases, and happily grow bigger each year in the process.

But I would imagine the crow and coyote problem is just getting blasted and buried under fields of corn and soy.

I ask you, is starting a shoot-out business the way to go?

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