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I know I couldn't do justice to a falcon as I wouldn't have enough time to fly one. As you know with a Harris you can grab an hour a day after you've been to work and see some hunting plus the lamping option if needed. Buying one and keeping it would not be a problem but once the young hares and gamebirds were gone I'd be fecked by October when quarry numbers are down and whats left knows a thing or two about survival lol.
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I'd like to see a falcon out flying game or crows, its a pleasure just to see them going for a lure so hunting with one must be superb.
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I don't think I could find enough game to satisy a Falcon, not on the ground I get to walk on. I suppose a few lads could get together and pay for land putting down gamebirds like a shoot does.
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Its good that the failure rate is low if the falconer does his/her bit right.
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It's not cheap but I suppose if they are insured and in time can be bred from it dosent seem too bad. Out of interest what is the failure rate of falcons or will they all make the grade if bred, kept and entered correctly?
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After owning terriers I know they can be good bushing dogs,but sooner or later they will find an occupied fox earth and go to ground. When I had them I didn't mind too much as I wanted them to work and ran them with locator collars on but I did lose a good bitch in a drain. I know others will say that they have worked a terrier with a hawk for years and loads of lurcher lads do the same but I'm just putting down an opinion after knowing how it can all go wrong.What I do know is that in tight cover, hedgerows etc a terrier takes some beating but up on the moors in deep heather or pushing throu
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I've seen all sorts hunting cover, some lurchers are real good but there litter mates might not be. So I'd stick to the recognised types of falconry/gundog. As has been said a lurcher might do great but will chase stuff, terriers are spot on until the inevitable happens and it goes to ground on you. My Gwp dosent bush like a spaniel or terrier would but has a nose on him and if there's something in there it's coming out.In thick cover that might take longer than with say a spaniel but the end result is a flushed quarry. I think you have to pick a breed you like as many will do the job, I
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Get some prices but I'd be up for that.
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What part of Yorkshire is it.
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If I found a keeper running a big beat who could guarantee me as much mixed hawking as I wanted day and night I'd happily pay. I don't know what something like that would cost but its worth a grand easy. I have taken rabbits round the doors but have always been willing to travel for the sane amount on the dales. I might set myself targets numbers wise but the type of land and the circumstances around which a rabbit is caught do matter to me. I love the Reed covered dales, I had been going to good ferreting and lamping spots in North Yorkshire, numbers land, but when I got to know lads wh
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I plan on seeing a few keepers at the beginning of the season to see if they will let me onto bits of land, some even see harris's as a danger to their grouse.The land I worked lurchers on would be a dream, hundreds of acres of reedy dales and some heather, when there's rabbits there i cant think of anywhere better.
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I might do. I do have mates who will help out and i will rely on them inviting me out onto their good permissions and Arctic is getting another Harris.I feel that if I find another local enthusiast that either just wanted to help with mine or fly his own separately or as a cast then I'd get more done. By sharing permission and helping to knock for more plus sharing fuel costs and even the driving a lot of hunting could be achieved. Ideally someone who can also put the time in,plenty want to go out in the better weather and early season when there's loads of bunnies about, that's not much he
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I think I'll get a lot more done if I take someone with me to do the lamping or help with ferrets.I don't know any other bop owners except Arcticgun and we can't always be out together due to different working hours and he has a pack of dogs to work as well plus a falcon.
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Yeah I think lamping is something that will become a big part of my hawking. Needs must and all that,
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I bet that's time consuming even if its your livelihood or finances allow. It must be very rewarding though.
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im out of the house at 8am and get home at 3:30-4 pm, monday to thursday. Friday home at 3 ish, grab a ferret and the bird straight out and try get a rabbit. weekends are all mine so out hunting all day with the hawk. this year im lamping mainly through the week so i dont have to rush around and try to get finished as quick so i can get home in time to hunt the bird.i do jump ups when the winds too bad to fly and also just drop in the odd session now and then or when ive got to go and do other plans That sounds similar to how my seasons hunting will go,I haven't caught a rabbit on the lamp wi
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I'd be interested to hear how much time you lot are spending out hunting with your birds. I'm lucky In that I only work a couple of miles from home so for much of the season I can get back and get an hour or two out with the hawk , some nights I won't so will do high jumps etc.I have a forty foot long tall garage for doing stuff like that on the days when the weather hinders flying outside. I have every Saturday and Sunday to do what I want, once the clocks change and we lose the daylight I'll use holidays to get at least another day of flying in each week plus there's lamping to look into.T
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Mine caught its one in deep snow and couldn't control it properly.I eventually helped her out but the snow drift made it difficult. Can u put a pic up of the chaps, id be interested to see them. The rights and wrongs of Squirrel hawking seems to cause debate amongst hawk owners.
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She only caught one squirrel and flew but missed another three or four.Shame about the danger as they are great flights/ hunts to watch.
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Never thought about pigeons, mine caught one but I was concerned about it eating it with the risk of disease. Do you run into many squirrels? I don't but I can't avoid it completely, squirrel hawking seems to cause debate amongst hawk owners.
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i was always told its always better to fly a hawk on hares after 2 seasons or more, so smart call. many inexperienced hawks try there luck take a beating then refuse them all together, better to leave them to perfect there technique on rabbits before moving them on. dont get me wrong i dont regret at all picking my male over his sister but when that hare does get up in front of me i do kick myself for not having the right bird for the job, but its the same with pheasants and partridge I meant that for Arcticgun you'd posted whilst I was typing lol. Everything I'd read in books suggested that
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i was always told its always better to fly a hawk on hares after 2 seasons or more, so smart call. many inexperienced hawks try there luck take a beating then refuse them all together, better to leave them to perfect there technique on rabbits before moving them on. dont get me wrong i dont regret at all picking my male over his sister but when that hare does get up in front of me i do kick myself for not having the right bird for the job, but its the same with pheasants and partridge I meant that for Arcticgun you'd posted whilst I was typing lol. Everything I'd read in books suggested th
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real difficulty, i use a kitten collar with a bell on the ferrets neck so i can deal with the rabbit then when i return to the set i can hear him if he decides to wander, also if i dont know where he is and i carnt hear his bells i will cast the hawk back into the tree and watch his head moving around when he follows the ferrets movement, never fails, he sees things i never would, might have lost my ferret a few times without him. i trust my hawk 100% with my sandy hob he would let him eat of the same rabbit without a fuss but not with my polecat he hates him with a passion and would happily h
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Your going to be busy then. I think I'll concentrate on the humble bunny for now, but I know that sooner or later the attraction of hare hawking will have me trying our luck on old big ears.
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I was out on my own with the hawk for most of the time and on many occasions another person there would have been a big help.Ferreting was out of the question and the couple of times i tried to lamp her on my own was difficult. Sometimes when a pheasant or rabbit had gone into cover I would be trying to flush it when she would get impatient and land on the floor losing the elevation and any chance of a flight.She does have the habit of trying to walk in and flush stuff for herself lol. Comical but ineffective. How do you manage to ferret on your own mate? I thought about it but even on open
