Bob Irving
| Location |
|---|
| Dallas, Texas United States |
| Favorite FOXPRO Sound |
| Crows 2, Raccoon fight |
| Favorite FOXPRO Unit |
| Super Snow Crow Pro, Fusion, X-Wave |
| Weapon of Choice |
| Browning Maxus, Benelli M4 and Rock River Coyote Carbine |
| Favorite Species to Hunt |
| Crows, Raccoons, Coyotes, Hogs |
| Favorite Location |
| Texas |
| https://www.facebook.com/texascrowpatrol/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel |
| Not provided |
| YouTube |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsFqaH-IN-I |
Biography
Bob grew up in western Indiana hunting groundhogs and fishing for bass and panfish from an early age. In those years, crows were not as numerous in the area but they would respond to his questionable mouth calling and the old timey paper mache decoys that he employed as a schoolboy over a Winchester Model 12 in 20 gauge. An early adopter of technology, he used a 45RPM record of crow sounds to bring in his favorite quarry. He attended and graduated from Indiana State University with a basketball legend Larry Bird before moving to Texas in 1977 to start a career in accounting and marry his college sweetheart. Forty plus years later with 3 grown kids, he is still happily married to the same wonderful gal and just retired from the same company after 43 years of service!
Bob enjoys chasing varmints, target shooting competition and tennis. He has cultivated many wonderful friendships with local farmers, orchard men and ranchers through his varmint control efforts as the founder of the "Texas Crow Patrol". He gained the nickname "Gadget Bob" from good friend he shot sporting clays tournaments with for many years, as Bob was known to invest in any "gadget" that might improve his scoring. He takes that same approach with crow hunting using innovations such as "Hot Sticks" for decoy placement, mirrored blinds, suppressors, gun-mounted HD quality cameras, portable turntables for 360 degree calling, a variety of crow decoys, including "flappers and spinners" and, of course, state of the art FOXPRO ecallers to fool the wary crow.
Fast forward from his days of using a vinyl 45 RPM crow calling record to 15 years ago when he discovered the flexibility, reliability and sheer volume of sound available from FOXPRO callers his success on crows improved exponentially! Bob uses his powerful Super Snow Crow Pro to bring in crows from very long distances. He also enjoys calling in "fur" to spice up his crow hunts and, in particular, calling raccoons that abound throughout Texas. They come in fast when using the FOXPRO "Raccoon Fight" sound and orchardmen appreciate gaining some measure of control over them.
Bob also competes weekly with pistols, rifles and shotguns at local DFW matches and throughout Texas as well as surrounding states.
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