I am reading the book in anticipation of buying a captive bred Harris's Hawk later this summer or next summer.
It is a great book and worth the money.

My only concern is how inadequate the book makes me feel.
For instance Jackrabbits are the most hawked quarry in my area: the section on entering on hares suggest that I need to show the young hawk good, close slips daily in number that would require me to use both hands to count. Then to repeat that performance every day for a week.
I am willing to do what it takes to get my hawk going on jacks, but I am lucky to get a couple of mediocre slips in a days hawking. If I go out every day for a week I have used every hawking site I know by Friday.
I fully intend to find as many new hunting sites as I can in the next 2 months, but California is in a drought and half of my hunting sites have no rabbits this year.

My question for you is are others in this situation as well?
Would you wait a year to buy a hawk if you could not show it more that 5 to 7 decent slips hawking 3 times a week?