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[youcanthide...BANG 1,051]

Well since most birds are in the moult at the minute the falconry section is very scarce on topics so i thought i would give you this decision, if someone offered you any BOP for next season for free and you had the land and time to fly it, what would it be and what quarry would you fly it at?

i think at the minute mine would be a small German goshawk flown at anything that moved

 

edited to add 1 BOP only. sorry should have said

Edited June 7, 2013 by youcanthide...BANG

[obi2 239]

Goshawk, sparrow hawk or red tail for hares

[CrowHawker 227]

Male Golden Eagle at hare flew one for half a season 3yr ago best experience of my falconry career

Edited June 7, 2013 by CrowHawker

[Ginger shooter 58]

Crow beat me to it lol

[youcanthide...BANG 1,051]

ha i was expecting quite a few wanting to fly goldies

[obi2 239]

If we're going to the extreme then goldue for fox lol

[arcticgun 4,548]

pure female gyr on brown hare on fens oh and two saluki dogs in the mix as well

[CrowHawker 227]

pure female gyr on brown hare on fens oh and two saluki dogs in the mix as well

That would be a very clOse second minus the salukis a pure white tailed gyr griff sold one in Abu dabi last year for around 250,000 ? Edited June 8, 2013 by CrowHawker

[arcticgun 4,548]

to be fair with what I have seen of my gyrsaker at shade under 2lb at his very best the female gyr would not really need the saluki at all, keeps the chase inteseting though, especialy smaller land where they can hedge up or reach copses and leave falcon frustrted the dogs simply reflush the quarry back out into the open

 

and yeah be nice to have a pure white one however cvolor not important at all, could not afford one either way lol hybrids do for me

[CrowHawker 227]

And me do like a hybrid but not a fan of tri breds. My fab game hawk is a peregrine followed by a pere/saker great birds

[youcanthide...BANG 1,051]

And me do like a hybrid but not a fan of tri breds. My fab game hawk is a peregrine followed by a pere/saker great birds

 

i think my first falcon will be a perexsaker flown at corvids

[CrowHawker 227]

Myn was bought for the intention of the black stuff but wanted to go up and turned into a smashing game hawk who took pheasant partridge and had 6 grouse in 10 days then was killed by a buzzard heart breaking

[charlie caller 3,654]

A harpy eagle on Roe deer

[arcticgun 4,548]

lol eagle on roe deer seen some very good footage ,loads of interesting stuff on youtube etc. Gamehawking with a male and female peregrine the stuff of dreams, flying phesant partridge and grouse over endless moorland,

 

Ive found the hybrid pretty open to suggestion hunting style wise, its happy to gain height and wait on or fly from fist, not really done much with corvids had the odd one more be good luck than good measure, one thing I will say is when allowed they are versatile,Im really looking forward to getting back out when the season starts and seeing what comes this year of him, been a great learnign curve so far

[CrowHawker 227]

Reading this thread getting me very itchy boys!