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We arrived at our hunting ground and I made my way down the big field towards the bank hoping for a quick flight on a rabbit. The sky was dark and the wind was blowing a bit. When you only half an hour to get something done the pressure is on. I let my hawk fly off the glove and she did a tight soar before crashing down towards a partridge, she missed it by what looked like an inch and it took off across the field. The hawk was in hot pursuit and staying close. They both went out of sight down the bank and I was jogging trying to keep up. I couldn't see anything when I first got to the edge bu
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Enjoy it and get some pics put up.
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It's been windy over the last couple of days. I would have been out yesterday after work but it started raining. All I could do was high jump her. Not much fun but better than doing nothing. Today I went out but when a gust of wind blew her across the field, a road, and over to a wood I thought I'd made a bad decision in flying her. After a few minutes of whistling and calling she made her way back to me. The wind was only getting stronger and it was going to be dark soon so I headed back to the car. The dog was hunting along the edge of a thick hedge with the odd tree along it. The hawk
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Sorry to hear about your mate. Looks like your hawk is coming along nicely.
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The wind was fairly strong today but I made the decision to travel up the dales instead of going local. It is a risk as I knew it would take longer to travel there than I would have to fly her before darkness. She followed on through a wooded area but for some reason the rabbits weren't out and about today like normal. She then had a bit of a soar before attempting to catch something in the rushes but missed. Once she had flown back over to me I knew my only option was to walk up the cover and I spotted a rabbit clamped in its seat. I held the hawk up expecting this big rabbit to run across th
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If this wind continues I'll have her breathing hard tomorrow lol. I'll try the rope at night as well. Anything to keep her fitness level up.
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Too windy today so had her doing high jumps for her food. I added a weighted rope to her jesses which makes her work harder to reach eight foot, I'd go higher but that's the height of my garage, I suppose I could do it in the yard. Either way I need to start getting her to jump up without getting food as although I chopped her food up she had it eaten in thirty jumps and wasn't breathing hard like she was when I first did it a couple of weeks ago after getting advise from Crowhawker. I'm taking this to mean she is fitter so that's something but clearly I need to get her lifting more weight, do
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Nice one, I like hunting moorhens. We don't run into many and what's there aren't easy to get to flush out. It takes a committed dog willing to get wet lol.
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It's a nightmare isn't it !!! Is there any other type of hunting so affected by weather ? I can't think of anything, even an airgunner can find somewhere out of the wind and rain.
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The wind was blowing for most of the day and it looked like we had no chance to get out. At 3.00 the trees were bending and it appeared the met office had got its forecast right. I had almost had her doing high jumps for her food but I'm glad I didn't because at 5.00 the wind had completely gone, not just eased off but gone. I drove to the nearest area I fly her and she stood in a tree whilst my pointer worked his way through the reeds and was up to his belly in water trying to find something. The hawk spotted something and took off to another patch of trees and bushes fifty yards away. As I g
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Thanks for the advice I'll give it a try. I've just got some reflective lamping jesses. They would be easily made its only the 3M stuff that goes on hi viz vests etc.
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Yeah and that's probably why the two times I've tried this season have resulted in caught rabbits. Another person lamping also let's me deal with the rabbit and hawk much easier.
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I hope it goes well, you deserve a break. Mines had two on the lamp so far but still grabs the rear end so there's room for improvement. Last season she was hitting the ground just behind the rabbit so I'm guessing she's hitting a shadow or only aiming for what she sees which is the tail lol.
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With strong winds due for the next few days I thought travelling up the dale might be worth it even though we would have less than an hour to do anything. It was a tough call to make as lamping might have been the better option but I decided to make the most of the available mid week daylight opportunities left to me. On the way up I was beginning to think I'd made a bad choice as we hit traffic then got stuck behind a horse then tractors and had to pull over to let an ambulance pass. By the time we arrived our hour was down to forty minutes. My Hawks weight was up and she was giving up on rab
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That's brilliant mate.
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I'll do more lamping but we don't have all that many places to go, it's all fields and banks full of that reedy stuff and bracken. With 30/40 mph gusts this weekend it's not even an option. I'll have to try and get permission in either other parts of Co.Durham or even better for lamping and ferreting the big grass fields of North Yorkshire. Mind for daytime hunting the parts of the Durham dales we walk over full of cover is great.
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She was too heavy on Tuesday after eating that pheasant and it was probably too windy anyway. Wednesday was a waste of time we didn't see anything. We wanted to go up the dales for an hour before dark yesterday but the forecasters were saying it was raining so we went to a local spot but it was far too foggy. All we could do was go to another place lower down and fly the hawk for half an hour, there's not much stuff there and she only got to chase one phesant which got away into cover. Very Strong winds are predicted for the weekend so it's not looking promising for another few days.
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She's getting fitter that's for sure and I'm flying her heavier than last season. Last season she didn't venture to far and didn't do much soaring, looking back she was never fit but I didn't feel I could lose her, now that she goes higher and gets the chance to fly a few pheasants over good distances I feel more stressed at times lol. I hope you get your Redtail going soon mate, I've only got another week or so before I'm limited to weekends and the odd day off work, I'll try and keep her fit with a bit of lamping and high jumping.
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I pushed my luck this evening and went out in fairly strong wind. It was nothing that my hawk can't handle but she loves soaring about and can get blown away. Everything was going well but my hawk was going up a bit high for my liking and away from me. I tried whistling her back in but she went out of sight. We were in a low area so didn't have any idea which way she had gone, I wasn't too worried as she knows the area and always swings left to the ponds. I headed over to where I expected her to be but I couldn't see her so I went back up the bank and tried to get a reading. The land is all hi
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I'm planning to have a day or two out with a Gos myself this season, stunning looking birds.
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I've just been spending a bit of time with the pup each day and showing it stock, nothing much really. My hawk is starting to get used to it and dosent scream at her as much. I won't do anything with her this season except for tagging along on a ferreting session or two.
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After spending this morning doing a few jobs in the garden ( which I hate with a passion ) I was ready to go hunting. We were driving up the farm track when I saw a rabbit go into a patch of reeds on the bank side. I quickly got my hawk out the box, clipped on the transmitter and jogged across to the bank. The rabbit sat tight until Id flattened the whole patch of cover. It only ran down hill a few metres before turning and going back up the bank leaving the hawk overshooting by a good distance but she battled her way back up hill and caught it. I wish it was so quick and easy to secure a kill
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Just enjoy the challenge mate lol
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Cheers mate. This season I've got a mate who's keen to go out all the time which helps me enormously. My Ranger has snapped a leaf spring and it went through the rear shocker so it's off the road until I get it repaired. In the past this would have meant I couldn't go hunting or would have been stuck just messing around the local hedges but we've simply been going everywhere in his pick-up. Having another person with me allows me to use ferrets if I want and in time lamping will be so much easier. There's a lot of people who like to go hunting but not all of them are keen to go out whene
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I had that a lot last season with mine, she had to be exactly on weight or wouldn't respond but didn't have the energy to do much. My hawk seems to have a bigger weight range this time round.
