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Mines the one that looks like a pointer the other two have 1/4 pointer in them.
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I'll post some up later mate
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I had some good times with the pointer crosses ratting and rabbiting day and night with the odd fox thrown in, I have taken my old bitch out with my hawk and she knew without being told what she had to do and was perfectly behaved around the bird on a kill. She had a bad injury two seasons ago out lamping and that pretty much retired her. She was out of Craig Nuttalls Casper to his good Gwp bitch. Like any lurcher breeding I think the running dog side is very important but sadly sometimes overlooked.
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The best one is falconry and hawking, Harris hawk goshawk is ok and a few others I can't remember the name off. I just tried them all out and deleted the ones where people are allowed to sell stuff. Dalemews goshawks is worth friending with regularly reports and videos.
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I agree, after three seasons I'm still learning and I know others are doing more with their Hawks than I am. I see the evidence of that everyday on the Facebook forums. What I can say is that me and my mate enjoy going hunting with our Hawks and even though this season isn't going as well as last season the birds are healthy and live good lives. They aren't as fit as they could be and we aren't bagging hares and ducks etc but I'm happy with rabbits and the odd pheasant. I love it.
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That's how I see it, for a few months each season I can get back from work and get out with my hawk for between twenty minutes and an hour. I know a Gos could do something in that time but it just seems easy with a Harris. Stick it up a tree and have it following on, even on the smallest crappiest bits of land they seem to see something to fly after. About a year ago someone on a Facebook forum said that the modern Harris hawk owner seems to treat them like a lurcher. He was being critical but I find the Harris very similar to a lurcher. The same methods are used to hunt them which is why some
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An interesting read lads. The Gwp cross is nothing new and i know lads that have had them a lot longer than I have. My lurcher is 13 years old. I can assure you all that a pointer cross will have a strong pointing instinct but will strike into cover etc when it needs to. A few years ago there was a similar thread and someone said he thought a pointer cross would run down the beam and then stop and point the rabbit. We had a good laugh over that one but I can see why people might think that. As for speed I picked the heaviest set pup and she was a tad slower than some other half crosses I've
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Yeah guns and rods can be put away for months and it doesn't matter. Flying a hawk has allowed me to do a lot more fishing in the summer months. I still have two pointers and an ancient lurcher to look after but they just need a walk each day, when I had terriers and lurchers I felt they should be taken hunting all year round even if it was just to kill a few rats every week. We all know that Britain is experiencing more wind and rain than it has for many years and on parts of the Durham dales I get to hunt over the rabbit population is very low compared to what it was a few years ago. This ma
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I waited all that time because although from the beginning of getting interested in hunting I wanted to fly a hawk I started with terriers, then lurchers then hounds etc. I figured a long time ago I could hunt with a hawk and do ok but it wasn't possible as I had dogs and couldn't have done everything. Only when I had no terriers and one old lurcher could I finally obtain my Harris hawk. That was three years ago. With work commitments, available land and quarry I think I can only fly a single Harris hawk but others in similar circumstances are flying gosses or multiple Harris Hawks. Personally
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I'm having a terrible season with the weather and even when I have been able to go out she's soaked after a couple of flights and I've mostly just done single kills this season but yeah I feed her mostly from her kills through the moult. We don't get many pheasants but one of them will feed a hawk for several days. I've never thought about it because I defrost stuff then after feeding the hawk the rest goes to the ferrets or a dog but a big hill rabbit would last my hawk about four days. I read the books on and off for twenty years and later joined the Internet forums for severel years befor
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I'm struggling this season with the weather and sometimes a lack of rabbits on the ground I'm hunting over especially close to home but time isn't an issue. If your happy to lamp your hawk then everyday has the potential to be a hunting day. I think it's a case of how much time you personally need to get out hunting to justify owning a hawk but the same could be said of owning any working dog like a lurcher. Let's face it most working stock isn't used to the maximum as most people have to go to work for forty hours a week. By the Christmas holidays I still had six days to take off work as the
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I know when I got my hawk I skinned, gutted and jointed as much stuff as possible to maximise the freezers space but realised a month into the moult that two hundred rabbits and another fifty various species was too much for one hawk. The dogs helped empty it by the start of the next season, the German pointers can eat two rabbits a day lol.
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Hawks eat very little food even in the moult, I freeze rabbits down and defrost for the dogs and ferrets all year and my large chest freezer will be rammed with stuff by the end of the season. The rabbits mainly go to the ferrets as I can keep my hawk fed on the pheasants, squirrels, moorhens and the odd hare and duck that's in there through the five month moult. You may not even need to freeze much down for a single hawk as if your like me lads will be constantly dropping you off rabbits, day old chicks, chickens, pigeons etc etc that are either from domestic stock or taken by dogs just on a
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I hope it does, this months been terrible for us. I can't seem to get a good run going this season.
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The weather has been against us this week but we got out on Saturday afternoon. Things were going ok until my mates hawk decided to attack mine. Nothing too serious but they landed in a stream and got soaked so that put an end to hunting. Yesterday was better with some nice flights on rabbits over the pointer. Both Hawks got to take a couple but were soon soaking wet, mine caught one in the reedy grass stuff and was towed around over the waterlogged ground. I tried her after that but she couldn't fly very well so both Hawks were fed up before we took a mates lurcher out with my pointer to
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Yeah that's what I do but sometimes I still get it wrong lol
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I've filmed a fair bit of cursing this season. I often can't remember if the GoPro is recording or not when it's stuck on my head, I tried a chest mount but the camera is too low sometimes. I've got a few clips I'll have to put them up when I get chance.
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Nice vid mate I've been trying to film my own own hawk but keep forgetting to press record.
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Sounds like your having an enjoying season, keep the posts coming.
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We've tried to get out over the last week or so but the rain has stopped us doing as much as we would like. I've also had a few dodgy moments in the wind and certainly it's helped a few things escape my hawk. A few rabbits have been taken so things are ticking over ok. Today we got out for an hour where my mates hawk caught a rabbit after a long flight but mine missed a few rabbits and pheasants and had an unlucky session. As we walked back in the rain my dog went on point and a rabbit was flushed, unfortunately the rabbit got to the hedge and my mates hawk pulled a tail feather out as it went
