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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

10,000 Birds

On the website he reminisces fondly about his “best hunt,” where he killed 3,125 crows in 9 days, bringing to mind the days when people slaughtered seemingly endless flocks of passenger pigeons and herds of buffalo. Read your own headline, take a look at the buffalo skulls pictured at right, and wake up, Rip Van Winkle.

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