gos or harris?

[welshhound2 20]

what would you say is the hardest to train a goss hawk or harris hawk ?

[MAACCY 105]

a gos is defiently not a beginners bird i would say a harris is a good bird to start with and learn from kieron

[jasper65 6]

I think your right mate ! anyone can take up a Imprint Goshawk and go out and kill something but wether they get the best out of it is a different matter, its the same with the Harris's! you see plenty that are obedient to the fist and take a few bunnies and Pheso's on the rise but they never reach their full potential either through weight management or never getting really fit, half the problem with alot of people who fly Harris's is they fly them too high! its cause they're so amicable you can get away with this compared to alot of birds, the problem is they never reach their true potential as a hunting bird.....

[Fletcher 0]

I think your right mate ! anyone can take up a Imprint Goshawk and go out and kill something but wether they get the best out of it is a different matter, its the same with the Harris's! you see plenty that are obedient to the fist and take a few bunnies and Pheso's on the rise but they never reach their full potential either through weight management or never getting really fit, half the problem with alot of people who fly Harris's is they fly them too high! its cause they're so amicable you can get away with this compared to alot of birds, the problem is they never reach their true potential as a hunting bird.....

I'd agree with that, my MHH's killer hunting weight is 1lb 4 3/4 oz, he'll still take easy rabbits at 1lb 6 1/2 oz and obedient to 1lb 8oz or more(after moult), I normally hunt him at about 1lb 5 oz. I doubt if you'd get away with flying a Gos 3oz over its hunting weight.

Edited March 2, 2007 by Fletcher