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Won't be long now and the talking on a forum will stop and we can actually hunt something lol. it has gone pretty quick this moult, 3 months has flown past
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do you think that eventually with most gos being bred from imprinted stock, that eventually they will loose their natural spookiness? and become more stabilised overall, Im talking successful imprints being bred by those whom fulfil the birds mind with hunting as opposed to breeders who simply chamber them breed em? eventually turning out slightly more manfriendly stable hawks of this type? My knowledge of falconry is very limited but surely thats how it should be with any animal bred for purpose ? You'd be suprised at the level of peddling that goes on in falconry, I thought the dog worl
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i think so, i know in the US the americans take the lineage of the hawk very seriously like lurcher men do with there dogs. they want to know the heritage of the hawk, and a host of other things, i know this one bloke who wrote articles about harris hawks and he would only buy a harris from this one line as the offspring were notoriously person friendly, even going as far as saying that no formal manning was required with any of his hawks from that lineage
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how do you find it to work with? is it easy or does it take alot of hardwork, ive heard some excellent reviews then others seem to think there wank. i picked the reciever up of ebay for £50 nothing wrong with it at all except it needs a polish. it was the blokes old scanner which he doesnt use anymore, there was one up last week but the bloke put it on the falconry section with no yagi and got £100 for it so ive stole it at the price i got it at. apparently if short range is an issue using a rubber duckie antenna and using your body as a shield will allow you to get closer
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the lower the frequency , the longer the wave length = more range so the 173 megs have it i was thinking the same but im flying a harris and whilst they can and do go far contrary to popular belief, they dont go falcon range far, at least mine doesnt anyway ha so im gonna use it on 433mhz i think
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dont keep numbers mate try to for about a month and then just lose it id say 60+ easy. we averaged around 4/5 rabbits a week at the start the season then dropped to around three or 4. and two hen pheasants aswell, his first pheasants in 5years. we struggled to get those numbers though, at the start we stayed local then as the rabbit numbers go down we end up doing alot of miles to find the numbers. and then some permission i have with plenty of rabbits arnt suitable for the hawk because of fences so you end up searching for new ground with rabbit numbers and suitable ground which takes up mos
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im gonna put it on 433mhz for now the smaller size has done it for me
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crowhawker what system and transmitter do you use if you dont mind me asking, and have you or your friends ever had a problem with the frequency? it seems to be the least favoured out of the three most commonly used. another thing that is splitting my decision is jim chicks own systems are in 173mhz so im not sure which to use thanks
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im leaning more towards 433 as jim chick does a yagi for both but the 433 is smaller and slightly cheaper. good for say portability but also if i do decide to sell it as a complete set with a transmitter i will make a little profit
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ive just picked up a yaesu vr-500 radio scanner. when put with a yagi matching the frequency of a transmitter it works just as a dedicated falconry telemetry. now ive already got a 216mhz telemetry set but for the price of the scanner i couldn't say no. i can get a yagi antenna in either 433mhz or 173mhz, my question is which do you use and which would you recommend for me, im usually hawking open fields but i do alot of woodland work. im probably gonna keep it as a backup when i find a 216mhz yagi, or test it against my current system and see what comes out on top then sell the one im not gon
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ha i hope you do end up keeping her, she looked a lovely hawk in the photos would be a shame to lose her. atb
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well the exact time of the baby being born was unforseen at the time of buying the hawk . your a prime example of a bad falconer putting sex before your hawk, people like you dont deserve to be called a falconer ha
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factored you in while i was replying lol you really should have thought about this before you bought the bird, fair enough alot of birds are regrettably sold due to unforseen circumstances not simply because they have tried it out and decided its not for them, bad example of a falconer . just more reason why it shouldnt be so easy to get a hawk, as above for the hawks sake i hope falconry is for you, and as you said the hawk comes first All the best
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you really should have thought about this before you bought the bird, fair enough alot of birds are regrettably sold due to unforseen circumstances not simply because they have tried it out and decided its not for them, bad example of a falconer . just more reason why it shouldnt be so easy to get a hawk, as above for the hawks sake i hope falconry is for you, and as you said the hawk comes first All the best
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good for you mate glad youve took it on bored many ignore the advice, think they no best and do it anyway then a few months down the line when they have a terrible hawk with nobody to blame but themselves they wish they went about things like your going to
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Anyone watching North America on Discovery, cracking watch. just shown a female deer pretending to be injured by limping to distract a coyote from eating her fawn, giving it just enough time to move and hide in a safer place. what wildlife does never seizes to amaze me
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definitely, reading a thread on the falconry forum about how most of the sudden spar deaths are a result of allowing the bird to crop up but the hawks metabolism isnt fast enough to digest the food so as a result the bird suffers a sour crop and dies.
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love sparrowhawks myself, another on the evergrowing to fly list ha was thinking about one a few months back for next years season but then ive got to factor in my other hawk, there was lamping but i didnt think it fair to lamp him everyday, would much prefer to have him out during the day when i could than lamp him
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a few recommend the nick fox dvd`s, best thing to do is get a mentor, but dont get the bird then get mentored ! spend a season with a falconer then get the hawk. the hawk needs to be out 5 days a week minimum and not just for a short fly so ask yourself can you provide that time. also the initial cost of a hawk setup will be around £1200 minimum, something to think about. like paulus said hawks are a massive commitment so think about how well you can do by the hawk before you buy one. good luck
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Selling on behalf of a friend, Ready NOW 2 albino jills 2 polecat hobs 1 polecat jill Fed on meat diet from great working stock Ring directly on this number 07903858195. no PM`s or replies please West Yorkshire, Pontefract, Upton another litter of kits available a week after these ones thanks
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dont get me wrong i love hunting my harris, every minute of it infact, and i will never regret buying him. but when your walking along and a partridge or pheasant rises just feet away from you, i kick myself for having the wrong bird for the job on my glove. the gos is just so versatile.
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ive took no convincing ha you two sold it to me, ive got loads of birds on the to fly list, i will have this harris till he passes put way too much time and effort into him to sell him on for another bird like many do. couldnt bare the thought of someone having him and me not knowing how he is being treated. but the next bird for me is going be a gos, it was then gonna be a female red for hares but now thats going to go on hold for a falcon, pere/saker most probably
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turned out to be a decent thread this, downside its got me even more bored at the realization i wont be out for another few months yet and you two have really made me want to fly a falcon now, its all i can think about, you b*****ds ha
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thought so ha only kestrels ive heard hunting successfully are the american kestrels. decent bit of footage of one hunting starlings on you tube. i remember reading a thread on the falconry forum about an ak lamping gerbils. great pics to go with it
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did you manage to hunt the kestrel mate, any magpies
