Pheasantplucker
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Few Hare kills Feb 2007Just a few end of season hawking shots.
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Pheasantplucker
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Last two pic's are from mid April as the farmer wanted the brown hare numbers reduced still or they would just be shot and stay were they fell,pure waste IMHO... 
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Sean
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good stuff. good season then?
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Pheasantplucker
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Slow start but it soon picked up. 
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DitchShitter
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 Bloody hell, PP; You really are getting in amongst them, aren't ye?
Tell me; You're not the guy who came into the THL Chat that night, are ye? Said ye flew a Goldie and got rather a bit of a sticky grilling from one of the other lads in there ~ Not that I was entirely convinced myself! It's easy enough to blandly say ye have an eagle. But, by christ, you very obviously Have got one! Blimey!
As I asked who ever it was that night; Doesn't it make ye wrist ache?!
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Pheasantplucker
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Hello DS...Love the name
THL Chat?,sorry ya lost me on that one im afraid 
To be honest the weight you kinda get used to and most people manage ok with a male flying of the fist & plus i have a thumb stick for when i do need it.
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Pheasantplucker
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2nd hare kill
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saltiretaxidermy
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wow mate, top bird.
i could only dream of owning something like that.
looks like you have really brought the best out of your bird.
well done
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Pheasantplucker
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| saltiretaxidermy wrote: | wow mate, top bird.
i could only dream of owning something like that.
looks like you have really brought the best out of your bird.
well done |
Thanks mate,
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saltiretaxidermy
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no probs bud
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Hawknorth
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Looks like you had an excellent season,how long does it take getting him going when you pick him up at the start of the season?cheers
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Pheasantplucker
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| Hawknorth wrote: | | Looks like you had an excellent season,how long does it take getting him going when you pick him up at the start of the season?cheers |
Hi Hawknorth
I really wont know the answer to that question till the start of the new season,i got him last year in June as a 4week old eaglet all the way from Germany.
Due to his growth and being an imprint i didnt start hawking untill October'ish,a September start would have been better as the Brown hares are full size but young and full'ish to get him going but in the new year things picked up
I weighed him today and he tipped the scales at excess 9lb,the previous seasons hunting weight was 7lb 3oz! but being an imprint he will hunt heavier but not with the same gusto on the really long slip's.
Cheer's
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Hawknorth
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When you say weighing him does the manning continue through the molt if so what his behavior like?cheers
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Pheasantplucker
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now that the seasons over ive fed him right up but still train fly ie hes on full length of a long creance and i hide either a dead rabbit cock pheasant in undergrowth and propped up to look "alive" and i slip him out of the hood at them and he makes a "kill" as normal and i let him crop out on the rabbit etc.
This keeps him active and satisfied and not just shut away in the mews untill next season,plus it makes him still look and work for his food and not see me as the sole food provider.
Being an imprint he looks for my attention anyway and will fly 20ft to my fist at fat weight to an empty glove just for fun,it wouldnt be fair on him just to shut him away in the mews and he keeps fitter in my mind this way than he would be just shut away looking at four walls,plus before the season starts its not going to take him long to get going.He's a pleasure to handle.
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Hawknorth
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Hi PP
Any change in his behavior are you still manning and doing work on the creance
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