Montana Field Meet Photos

[Bird_Dog]

Here are some photos of my recent vacation to Montana to attend the winter field meet in Roundup. the pictures include photos of an imprint white jerkin, a passage and imprint gyr falcons and my tiercel gyr/pregrine hybrid. There's been a 7 year drought in South Eastern Montana, so the sage grouse were vary scarce. The highlight for me was when my hyrid slammed the very first sharp-tailed grouse he ever saw. The sharpie slipped away when my bird tried to grab it on the ground after knocking it in to the sage.

:cry:

...but it was a great introduction to how difficult grouse hawking is. I didn't get a chance to go hawking with the austringers. I heard thay had a blast catching rabbits with passage Goshawks. The longwingers on the other hand had a hard time getting their falcons flown due to the lack of sage grouse.

-- BIRD_DOG

[IAmTheWeasel]

Lucky SOB!!! That looks like it was a bunch of fun.....and cold to boot!....and ya still made it back in time for the skytrials.

[Hawkmaster]

Wow really nice, thanks.

what was the dog use other than the pointer?

[Bird_Dog]

There were setters and english pointers. I brought my GSP, but didn't run him on grouse becasue he works too close. He did a great job on pheasants, tho.

Iamtheweasel -- Did you hear if Jay got his bird back after the skytrial? We looked for a couple of hours but never got a signal. The rain got worse, so Jay said he was going to try to put the kite up on Sunday. I never heard anything after that.

BIRD_DOG

[WireHairedPointer]

wow great pictures!!! I would love to hear more about grous hawking. Are there also GWP used for game-hawking in the us?

[Finnish]

Nice pics there.

[IAmTheWeasel]

wow great pictures!!! I would love to hear more about grous hawking. Are there also GWP used for game-hawking in the us?
Yes GWP's are quite common with the longwingers.

[Varmint]

They need something to lick up all mess in their Hawking bags at the end of the day! :wink: :lol:

[Gaz]

OOOPPSS :lol: