I F A SHOTGUNNER learns to use a crow call, the shooting can be fast and furious on any given day. It's the kind of shooting a rifleman never gets. But hunting crows with a rifle has its own rewards. Crows are the toughest targets possible for a rifleman, no matter the cartridge or scope used, or who manufactures a rifle's premium barrel. Ben Connor was a rifleman. And he was the greatest crow killer with a rifle I ever knew. Maybe the greatest anyone ever knew. Ben's been gone for quite a while now, but I think about him occasionally. Especially when I see five or six crows eating the table scraps my wife puts out for a little gray fox that lives in a wooded ravine behind our house. NNOR J U N E 2 0 1 6 THE CROW KILLER 45