Passage Female Prairie on Jacks

[jtgoshawker]

I want to hear peoples thoughts about hawking jack rabbits with a female prairie. I plan on trying it out this year.

[Deleted]

people do it no reason you cant

[Falcon Boy]

Do it. Falcons on rabbits is a lot of fun. Know that you will probably either need to be very fast or run a dog of some type. When I flew my gyr/saker on rabbits the jacks would run, and without a dog present, they would stop and the falcon would lose interest because they were no longer moving.

[jtgoshawker]

That's Good to know did you have good success?

[Falcon Boy]

I had good success with everything except jacks. I entered him on jacks right away and he got walloped a few times and stopped chasing them. However, he would kill anything else that moved, and doubles and triples were common with a few quad days too. It took me a while to get him oriented towards rabbits (I think b/c of the jack incidents in the beginning) but once he figured it out it was really fun.

Here is a thread from his first year, I went quite a few pages in to where he started catching game
apfalconry.proboards.com/thread/3955/goose-imprint-male-gyr-saker?page=24

Here is the log from his second year.
apfalconry.proboards.com/thread/5376/gooses-log-imprint-male-saker?page=1

Here's a few photos from the threads

[Ally]

Especially for a prairie who should already be slightly more ground-oriented than other falcons, go for it!

[jtgoshawker]

Well trapped me a passage prairie trapped at 888 grams no crop! Let the fun begin

[Austin]

Ok, I would like to know if anyone is going to do any jack rabbit hunting this fall or early winter and where. Looking to hook up with someone.