Falconry, the sport of the kings

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And to add to your luck, you find a partner to enjoy it all with. You lucky "bleep".

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And to add to your luck, you find a partner to enjoy it all with. You lucky "bleep".

Thank you bud, I deserve your kind complement, no hard feelings here…. lol

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Lucipher the sky cutter

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Winter finally arrived, and it is not pretty

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Bitter cold at -15f

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Anticipation

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pointing grouse in the cotton fields

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cutting the bird loose

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Holding point for 25 min at -15f

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The falcon took a 1500' pitch and held position for a few minutes, when i.e. was all over I noticed he had ice forming on his face...

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Heading home for a cup of hot chocolate super charged with Baileys...

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how do you accomadate the birds after hunting and all nite while on the road. Do they just sit in the cab of your vehicle except when hunting

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how do you accomadate the birds after hunting and all nite while on the road. Do they just sit in the cab of your vehicle except when hunting

Here is a visual of the way the birds transport, they also spend the night in the same place. During the day, after they have flown, they sit on a perch, unhooded with a bath pan within reach. They preen, bathe and enjoy exposure to sunlight. The hood keeps the birds calm and safe while in transit.

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This is the best thread ever. Any videos of your dog and falcon working together on grouse or huns. Any upland birds that give your team a real challenge

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This is the best thread ever. Any videos of your dog and falcon working together on grouse or huns. Any upland birds that give your team a real challenge

Thank you bud, My personal favorite game to pursue with the falcons is the Sage Grouse, "the cadillac of game birds". Not only for their size, but the way they fly under the stooping falcon, most game birds seek cover when the falcon commits to a full tilt stoop and put in, when that happens the falcon pulls out of the stoop half way down from the original pitch and a second flush is required, and sometimes a third and so on… It tends to destroy a falcon's style and desire to ring up to the heavens. Sage grouse are the only exception to this rattyness, when flushed under the falcon, they will fly to the next county before they make an attempt to put in, therefore allowing the falcon enough time to stoop down from 1500-2000'.

My preference in game species are; (top to bottom)

Sage Grouse
Sharp tailed grouse
Prairie chicken
Huns

The amazing thing that becomes the main challenge is that most cock sage grouse taken this year were 2100- 2400 grams (4.6-5lbs), the largest falcon I have on my team is 850 grams (1.8 lbs). Falcons have been clocked at 280 m/h while stooping from the heavens, so it is the kinetic energy of the bird's weight (850 grams) traveling at 200+ m/h that cracks the grouse's neck in the stoop.

My least favorite game is the pheasant for they are true rats and a master of putting-in before the falcon gets to them.

Now that is for falcons, the bird my fiancé is flying is a goshawk and she is flown from the fist ( direct pursuit), that type of flying is completely different from flying falcons. For that type of flying pheasants are the most desirable game to fly, ( besides ducks).

Falconry practiced today is not about filling the freezer, but challenging yourself from a different perspective, from a very elitist point of view. Falconry is what dry fly fishing is to fishing, or long bow archery is to big game hunting.

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This is the best thread ever. Any videos of your dog and falcon working together on grouse or huns. Any upland birds that give your team a real challenge

No Videos of hunting but here is a video of my company and what we do;

http://youtu.be/uv_2u64R0eA

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What is the process for using ducks for game

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This is easily my favorite thread