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Robert - that's very generous of you; in my case, it's not the handle that's 100% at fault, but my small, old, cold sensitive hands & fingers! However, the new handle looks like it would make holding...

I was using mine yesterday and the handle fell off; I have trouble getting the attachment tight enough, the way it's designed and the way my fingers don't function well in the cold. Once tightened as...

Hope it works out for you, Vivien - give it all you've got! /jo

so, how about a little drawstring type inner lid to keep out the snow/spruce needles? would also keep in the hood if the velcro failed (not that I've ever had the velcro fail, just failed to close it...

Ken - interesting hood there - I've never seen decorated braces before.
However, I have been slapped in the face with braces with knotted ends, when the hawk shakes her head, & that STINGS!
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I lost my Khan in the bush a couple of days ago - I'd been out 2 hours when I noticed it was gone, had to get my gos back to the truck through knee deep snow ~ 2/3rds mile xcountry, then go back to...

Joseph,

Don't forget you have to have a sponsor! Visit some of us and see what kind of mews suits us/the climate/the hawks. Trapping season is open to passage hawks until March 31, unless adult...

Hi Joseph,
hope you got your club paperwork and are working on the procedure; maybe you could get out to our October field meet, too, and see some action & ask some questions, and get to know some...

Anyway, rather than use the vacuum cleaner like she always does , she was using a small red handed broom with red whiskers... MAN!! I thought the devil had him the way he was carrying on... Standing...

[QUOTE=hcmcelroy;192583]Jo,

That must have taken some careful reading of her reaction. With such tameness I assume she was easy to handle in the field. Did she follow along or was she flown out...

Harry - the bare-hand tidbitting only got the passage male over being shy of the hood hand as long as he didn't see the hood; but that was still an improvement. I didn't keep him after the season, so...

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(5 gos) I never thought about advantage/s; I didn't/don't do it with the RT or HH. Maybe it started off as a way to get the gos interested in tidbits without the threat of a...

I have bare-hand fed all my goshawks (4 passage/1 imprint) with no footing problems from any of them. My current passage female gos takes tidbits exceptionally gently, and lets me rearrange her food...

The passage gos was taken the 3rd week of October. She turned into a nice hare hawk despite the limitations of our brutal winter last season.
The RT was released a couple of weeks ago - I just had...

I think an imprint can show normal startle reflex and it isn't the same as a fear response (IMO); a startle reflex can be triggered by anything coming at it from overhead - for good reason - while...

Thanks for the reply; re the photos of Daryl's gos & equip; my bell also serves as a tail saver anchor on the gos - and the deck seems to handle the weight no problem;
I place the mounts slightly...

I have routinely been using Marshall tail mounts, one on each deck, to hold the transmitter and the bell (RT & HH & Gos); this season, early on with minimal hunting, the RT broke a deck exactly below...

Yeah, me too!!! and now I need slips for THREE pretty girls. I hope we don't get a lot of snow; I don't need it to track the hare - I know where they live already! and having to lift my feet in...

As for being late to join Nafex, I had a very bad spring & summer and just hope the winter goes decently enough to keep my mind off things; surely 3 hawks & who knows how many elusive white ghosts...

Guys/ Everett is right - those ss hare are no pushover! It's not that they fight like jacks, or anything like that - but they are quick, calm, camouflaged, and you have to be able to hike for miles...

Hi/ I am starting my 11th? 12th? consecutive season. I have 3 hawks: Cruella de Ville is a 3 year old female domestic-bred HH; she's a very successful snowshoe hare hunter, and maybe the all time...