Thank you for the encouragement.
My fall back is to take another passage red-tail hawk just as I have done for the last 2 years. A passage bird already knows how to hunt and needs only a few slips and a drop in weight to figure out that Jack rabbit is on the menu.
I was just hoping that I could train a Harris's hawk. It is the favorite of all the hawkers I hang out with. They are super tame and never try to fly off even when over hunting weight.
The hawks that are a couple of years old catch a jack rabbit nearly everytime we go hunting, but I was concerned that the low numbers of game would present a problem for a first -year chamber raised bird. Therefore waiting until next year when I can get a dog or better fields might be the right option for me.