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Unfortunattly price dont come into it mate,i know someone that has spend 4k on hawks and still not got one doing the job ! People wont care about the price has most have the money for sitting on their butts all day.. so easy come easy go, I for one cant afford to buy willy nilly and have an attitude of " its not going chuck it on bird trader and get another"..i tried and tried to get it right and i think many would have given up weeks ago,im going into my 7th week here and im back on 24/7/ call so basically im screw..d this is the last week for me and like it or not i may parting comp
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Cheap..you have no idea,ive seen hawks being swoped for bags of speed let alone £400 of my hard earned cash from a hard weeks work,unlike some ...and has for mind blowing stuff would you believe there are now "smack heads" walking around with hawks on their fist..untill they want they next fix..so be very carefull how you judge people over the keyboard has you have no idea who we are or what we do for a living... ...has for my choice in hawk i hate to say it but its not for me... but at least ive been totally honest.
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Went out yestarday on my own just hawk,he was bang on weight.. Had a good slip on a cock bird but beat us to the cover,and again he was playing up ! dont get it..1lb 5.9 good response..1lb 6 crap..1lb 5.7 crap..talk about no room for error ! Some days hes great other days a total knightmare,if this is goss hawking " it aint for me" i like flying every day and not just every other day,i regulate is food but due to the cold weather its just not happening ! really cheesed off now going into my 6th week..i know it wont be my 7th week thats for sure. So id better start getting the young
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id stick to the norm personaly ,ive actully seen one of them units and they do look bulky... research into what ever you are going to buy but remember "if its too good to be true it usually is"..stick to the top names that gives an afterservice .
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Out again today,weighed 1lb 6 bang on..upto a good hill farm on the bunnies or what ever else we come across.. Got there at 11am and kept him tight on the glove for 30 mins just so he would settle again,we bolted a few but the other side of the hedge,one came out myside and he was on it,but the rabbit went back thro the fence and he went over it...lost it then back up a tree FOR OVER AN HOUR ...we tried everything to get him down apart from a shotgun ! great flight but im thinking all this hassle just isnt worth it ! i never had this with my harris hawks over the past 10 or so years ! its
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brilliant guys great pictures hope you have a bloody good season
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Took eric up to a nice little place that holds rabbit/phessie he was 1lb 6 on the nose so pretty confident. When we arrived at the farm i walked around for a few mins just so he got settled,i then gave him a tiny bit on the glove and cast him onto a post then re called him back and he came on the 2nd call so not bad. We walked down a steep back and i could see a cock phessie at the bottom,when we got closer the cock bird ducked into some gorse so that was the end of that,we walked around the phessie pens and on the way back to the truck he spotted a squirel and he was off up the tree a
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..... ..FREE... Cant believe it after all the hard work the good days the bad days im there ! Creance on tiny bit of doc off glove and cast him to my " specially made goss perch" first call BANG ON GLOVE.. Second call BANG ON GLOVE Creance off 3rd call,4th straight on glove Started to walk back to truck and i cast him in a low tree below head height,recalled straight to glove again ... Thanks to you all for all the advice crow hawker/charlie caller/bluebell h/youcanthide...and to everybody that i have forget to mention..THANK YOU
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Have tried him charlie but he seems to have gone off the boil the last few days ! I weighed him at 9,30 am and he was 1lb 5.9, ive bowed him out on the weathering and hes watching my every move,ive put new batterys in the telem and his tag,the lure is in the bag,i have 5 doc and a rabbit leg and some binoculars and mob phone At 1 o"clock i shall be going to our local training field on the farm and getting him settled for 30 mins then see what his response is, if its first time then today is the perfect day,he has been kept up on weight for 2 weeks now and graduilly brought down.
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Tried him out about 4pm and his weight was 1lb 6.5 me thinking here we go hes going to be good today ! ..nope poor response at 20ft walked closer to him approx 10ft and he was instant to the glove...talk about breaking me JESUS CHRIST ! Fed him a tiny amount of rabbit re weighed him just after and he was 1lb 7,3 so tomorrw afternoon hopefully he be down to 1lb 6 or slightly over ...problem is guys how much longer do i keep on ! there has to be a cut off point ! i really want and need to get out hawking
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Not to sure on lurchers, ill ask the farmer as he has live stock. Ill let you know though Decent people lurchers are stock broken mate ! and if you want a job done with non use of fire arms this is the only way..they not too good on crows thou ! ha Please dont tar us all with the same brush just because some of us hunt with lurchers dosent mean we are chavs in trackie bottoms and bull xs.
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Had to take a chance between the showers,so at 4 oclock i weighed him up and he was 1lb 70z bang on the nose ! so off we went .. Put him on post and called but same response has the other day at 1lb 7oz and 3-4 calls on the glove this was at a distance of about 20ft.. I then decreased the distance at 10ft and he was more or less instant,ive felt his keel and he does have some fat either side now,which is a big differance from 2 weeks ago. I shall drop him to 1lb 6.8 ishhh and see what happens looking back in my diary hes been around the 1lb 7 mk for a few days now so he shouldnt be
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I will mate soon has his response is decent im off. I loved my male harris "rico" miss him very much and id have no problems in having another male anytime,and IF i cant get use to hunting with my goss i will get straight back in into another male.. Good luck with him charlie and please keep us posted on him
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Patience ! oh my god..never thought i would be able to just switch off from the feathery bundle of stubanance but im definatly getting somewhere,just wish the rain stops for a brief hour so i can get him out thismorning and to continue with the progress,weighed him earlier and he was 1lb 7.8... Im going to keep up up around the 1 lb 7 mk and then come fri/sat drop him slightly for his first day free ( hopefully)
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Id try T-Bone steak if i thought he would respond first time mate,took him out at 3,30 he was 1lb 7oz and he responded well to be fair,3 calls at 20ft and he was on the fist.............. looking good for this weekend i hope if he responds like this again well pleased
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1lb 6.4 today ..out on creance 10ft not instant but came after a few wiggles of doc and 3-4 calls...we did this 5 times and fed him up on last call... Hope to keep him like this for 2 -3 days then drop him to 1lb.6 then see what happens...( god its doing my head in)
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WOW...you need to get the trade off right with them !
