Pound for pound

[BlueHawk]

Just curious...

What is the largest quarry your bird has caught in relation to their size? Just roughly of course. Have heard a lot about some having eyes bigger than their belly (or feet)

So what are you flying and what have they caught?

Just as a starter my 1lb 14oz Harris caught a mouse which must have weighed 1 oz :shock: . Nope, I've got that the wrong way round...

[Hawkmaster]

MOVED FROM GENERAL FALCONRY TALK

My dad has caught a duck with a Sparrowhawk.

[BlueHawk]

Saw the commercial on TV with the Bald Eagle taking the Grizzly bear and thought , where would I get a Dummy Grizzly, haven't seen it on Martin Jones' site?

[OutFlying]

male gos @ 1-10 taking 4-7 lb cock pheasant

[BlueHawk]

male gos @ 1-10 taking 4-7 lb cock pheasant

Jeeeeeeeesssssssuuuuuuusssssss.

[The Late Lord Lucan]

My crusty old Redtail used to chase every fox that she saw.....
She managed to take one by the back of the head once, she let it go before I got anywhere near.......I kind of thought that she would stop chasing them after that, but she didn't.
Fortunately, that was the only one she ever actually got hold of.

I think Iamtheweasel managed to take a racoon & an armadillo with his redtail, although I don't think either were intentional......how big is an armadillo?

Regards,
LLL.

[Rob Redtail]

My little MHH flies at 1 lb 4 oz takes full grown buck rabbits what do they weigh ? 5 or 6 lb ???...........R'gards Rob.

[Falconry Equipment International]

had a small German female gos ( 1lb 14.5 oz) take a heron back in the 70's ,cant remember off hand but seem to remember it weighed in at over 5lbs, Also in '95 took a farmers muscovy duck( 14lbs!) by mistake :oops: :oops: :wink: :lol: :lol: with another female Gos ( 2lb 7ozs)

[OutFlying]

Thanks Andy, he took 40 odd cock birds first season.

ps SJ didn't mentioned the heron as it is illegal to do so :wink: he also had a full grown hare pinned down but ended up bouncing off the wire fence and losing it.

[Tim Laycock]

My brother in-law has taken a 7 lb hare with a 1lb 5oz male harris!

My fathers female harris bound to a Muntjack deer and brought it down defore she released it. She weighed 1lb 15oz

[Falconry Equipment International]

ps SJ didn't mentioned the heron as it is illegal to do so :wink: he also had a full grown hare pinned down but ended up bouncing off the wire fence and losing it.
don't think it was in '74 , but even if it was , this was not a flight by design ! :oops: :wink: :roll: :lol:

[BlueHawk]

My mates 2lb 6 FHH took a white goose from a farm but it could hardly be called sporting apart from the 1 mile slip 'cos she knew they were there...

[OutFlying]

SJ, I've witnessed the same, it's like watching a spinning jenny coming down but once it hits the deck you'd better help the gos out or it gets a kicking (allegedly or so I heard :oops: )

[Tim Laycock]

allegedly or so I heard
:lol: 8)

[OutFlying]

:wink:

[Gaz]

1lb-6 1/2oz m harris,3lb-7oz cock pheasant...in flight...not just falling on it.. :finga:
1lb 5oz m ger/fin gos..every rabbit,cock pheasant he destroys.. :finga:

[Coedhirion]

1lb 6 1/2 oz 1st year M Harris,
cock pheasants (large)
4lb 7 oz Gutted, rabbit (prefer to leave the inards out in the fields)
Flight on a fox and hung on to its head for quite a few yards.
Plus that very large chicken...oooops :oops:

[Falconry Equipment International]

SJ, I've witnessed the same, it's like watching a spinning jenny coming down but once it hits the deck you'd better help the gos out or it gets a kicking (allegedly or so I heard :oops: ) :shock: :oops: :roll: :lol: yup too blody right!

[Ben C]

That guy from the states took a goose with his MHH....

1lb 5oz Harris on a Boeing 747, that was a bitch to dispatch.
Harris on a 5lb and a bit buck rabbit.
Big fat Cock........around 4lb.........flying.......then into a stream after it had come out of cover on the reflush.

But the best by far was a giant RAT weighing in at over 1lb.....HORRID. Oh and a giant dog squirrel.



Impressed by the heron stories, cody flies alongside them and they squawk at him, he is deffo looking at em in a ponderous way! :) :)

[Tim Laycock]

Big fat Cock........around 4lb :shock: :shock: :shock:

[Goldie]

My male HH 1.12 took blue hare weighing 6.14 but the biggest weight difference i have seen was in Czech Rep with female gos at around the 2 lb mark taking a young Roe Deer of 20lb+ That was the 4th Roe that particular gos had taken.

[OutFlying]

My male HH 1.12 took blue hare weighing 6.14 but the biggest weight difference i have seen was in Czech Rep with female gos at around the 2 lb mark taking a young Roe Deer of 20lb+ That was the 4th Roe that particular gos had taken.


Winner !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!! :shock:

[Tim Laycock]

:shock: Man alive! 8)

[BlueHawk]

My male HH 1.12 took blue hare weighing 6.14 but the biggest weight difference i have seen was in Czech Rep with female gos at around the 2 lb mark taking a young Roe Deer of 20lb+ That was the 4th Roe that particular gos had taken.

Are gosses just so aggressive they'll have anything or do they need any encouragement at all??I know they're called pot fillers, but that's just ridiculous. :)

[Tim Laycock]

I have never known a Gos that needed any encouragement to chase.
Goshawk mentality- set off and then decide where you are going :supz:

[Gaz]

Confidence :!: ..do it right in the first year and you can make one feel invincible...this transmits to the prey being chased.........got all teary eyed and sensible then :!: :!: ...ahhh Jim Beam....... :drinkers: :finga:

[Jiff]

my female harris last year flew at the 2lb 4oz mark she regularly nailed a 14 stone novice austringer.