Entering Peregrines on Crows without Baggies

[Slechtvalk]

Dear Friends,

I fly a very brave female Peregrine wich killed her first Crow on her second time flying loose, without using any bagged Crow at all. I fly her for more than two years and she is still catching a good score of Crows every season.

Does anybody have the same experience that baggies mostly destroy
a potential good Falcon. Or has someones Falcon ever killed his first Crow without any Baggy at all ??



Robert

[RabbitHawker]

I've never had any problems getting my birds going, but I have always had a supply of steel shot crows(I buy the cartridges, and friends shoot them). I have found that they tend to enter themselves naturally once they have the correct search picture and their weight is right, I often have to push this up to get the bird to look out and start chasing.

[Hawkmaster]

Yes it is possible and most will, especially if the breeding is right.

[OhMyGod]

I think you need to slip the birds in the right place in the right conditions first. You can miss a couple and the falcon will soon be dishartened. If you can slip from a good position, like above the crow or rooks like say a quarry or tip you should be ok. also a bird the size of a falcon should be got fit enough before you slip. Better to get it real strong first.

If your falcon is being flown from a hood how will it know it's chasing baggies? Or slightly modified rooks? all you need to do is wet them a bit. I think if you can get say 10 straight kills that the bird had to work VERY hard for, you will have a very persistant hawk for the rest of her time, somtimes in some circumstances this may require the use of bagged quarry, just incase you can't get a slip. better to fly a bird with only one or two kills under her belt to a lure rather than risk it getting ****ed on by a rook every day for 3 or 4 days if slips are hard to come by, but baggies may be better than the lure, and after a couple weeks chasing rooks HARD she will be stronger and able to take real challenging slips espesially with her new "I can't miss" ego