SECOND OUTING

[CO CHISE 330]

well today i thought ide have a hour round farm, this bit of land holds quite afew bunnys, the earth are in hedge rows deviding fields and are a distance from one another where some of the bunnys have to run a fair way across the fields to hit another earth or the woods, i thought it would be bang on for flying hawk at them, well they would of been if the hawk wanted to take them, i bolted a good 8 in a row with the hawk missing them all and even not atempting to go for some of them ? once he missed them he wouldnt attempt to go for them again, he bolwed one over and didnt get a firm grip and then just watched it run of, to be honest i was quite pissed of seeing the bunnys just run of, he did manage to nail one then just seemed to give up after that, is there anything i could be doing wrong, ive been exercising this bird daily and keeping a eye on his wieght and keeping it around 1.8, once i put food on the glove he straight back on to it, the bird follows me like dog, i do find it hard to get him to release his catch even when i cover up his kill and offer him abit of meat, it still takes a while, am i been to keen to get him hunting again ? afew pics but the other bunnys were dug to,

[Guest bullterrier]

well done mate john

[mickmck 716]

just keep at it mate , we all have bad days , my male sometimes just looks at bunnys but other days he nails em , get out as much as you can

Edited February 13, 2012 by mickmck

[j j m 6,540]

i had a mail that was like that many years ago,i kept training on the dummy bunny till he would go every time plenty of days out and he will come good

[wayne225tt 2]

A friend of mines male was flown for 2 seasons as a pestcontroll bird at pidgeons , he found it hard to start him on rabbit .

 

I advised him to finish every session on a healthy feed on the dummy bunny , which he did for a good 3 weeks .

 

First bolted rabbit after that he nailed no problem and has just finished the season by taking 82 in total . Not saying this will work for everyone