Gos and the law

[GosFlyer]

how do you stand if your gos or other BOP takes quarry not on the quarry list. i know some people fly things like blackbirds and larks but what if your bird kills another when out hunting and its not the intended quarry.:rolleyes:

[Keith Barker]

how do you stand if your gos or other BOP takes quarry not on the quarry list. i know some people fly things like blackbirds and larks but what if your bird kills another when out hunting and its not the intended quarry.:rolleyes:

three hail marys and an our father should do it.
keith

[SparsTheOne]

how do you stand if your gos or other BOP takes quarry not on the quarry list. i know some people fly things like blackbirds and larks but what if your bird kills another when out hunting and its not the intended quarry.:rolleyes:

If its taken from a tree its out of your control,but if you slip from the fist and your hawk takes a protected bird then your in the wrong I would say.


jase.

[AyrshireTaxidermy]

How about if you slip it from the fist at game, it misses and a protected species makes an appearance at the most inopportune moment?

[Pendleside]

How about if you slip it from the fist at game, it misses and a protected species makes an appearance at the most inopportune moment?

still not a deliberate slip .
when the bird has left your fist it is no longer under your control .
if nature takes its course then who can be held responsible ?
i think the crux of the matter rests with intent .
or rather proving that you did not intend for a protected species to be taken .
just my opinion .

[Graham Irving]

how do you stand if your gos or other BOP takes quarry not on the quarry list. i know some people fly things like blackbirds and larks but what if your bird kills another when out hunting and its not the intended quarry.:rolleyes:

The "let it lay" rule comes in to play, you do not remove the carcass or keep it for food, you are meant to leave it where it is. Most of us would probably dispose of the carcass anyway.

Graham

[Kevin Massey]

how do you stand if your gos or other BOP takes quarry not on the quarry list. i know some people fly things like blackbirds and larks but what if your bird kills another when out hunting and its not the intended quarry.:rolleyes:

Accidents do happen...sometmes out of the falconers control .... Just don't do a write up about it on an internet forum

[Jiff]

once youre birds left youre hand technicaly youve set it free and can't be held accountable for misshaps, you can't be prosecuted for releasing none native species as youre intention is to catch it again, i came accross this in a coppy of the minutes from a hawk board meeting (don't ask how i got them)

[Falconry Equipment International]

I would say the same as most others on here i had an incident when flying my gos down on the fens, wher I was flying my gos at a pheasant, the pheasantmade cover, but behind the cover was a man made 'doughnut' shaped fishing lake( what the land owner made his money from , ie fishing with an island in the middle that had some mature trees on it . of coursec the Gos went to take stand, but before she got a chance a heron got up and yes she nailed it :roll::twisted:..... as graham says i have always beleived in the 'letit lie' rule & you can imagine the landowners dismay ..not :twisted: at what had happened , beginning of the following season I was invited over for a meal with the landowner, yes you guessed it pride of place in the living room was a mounted heron:D

[GosFlyer]

I would say the same as most others on here i had an incident when flying my gos down on the fens, wher I was flying my gos at a pheasant, the pheasantmade cover, but behind the cover was a man made 'doughnut' shaped fishing lake( what the land owner made his money from , ie fishing with an island in the middle that had some mature trees on it . of coursec the Gos went to take stand, but before she got a chance a heron got up and yes she nailed it :roll::twisted:..... as graham says i have always beleived in the 'letit lie' rule & you can imagine the landowners dismay ..not at what had happened , beginning of the following season I was invited over for a meal with the landowner, yes you guessed it pride of place in the living room was a mounted heron:D

nice one,:supz:

[Falconry Equipment International]

meant to say she nearly got taken out by the heron, she intialy bound to it at the base of the neck with one foot and the other 1/2 way up her neck, by the time she had refoted the heron in the neck , the heron had tried to stab my gos 1/2 dozen times:roll:, but she did kill it fair and square:twisted: