Post by crbhawking on Sept 1, 2007 12:43:33 GMT -5
hey I wanted to here everyone's imput on squirrel hawking on golf courses, they are semi open, cavered with squirrels and can easily be reached by the suburban hawker. what do ya'll think of the idea.
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I haven't had the chance personally but when my brother flew back in the 60's golf courses were his favorite places to hunt. Most would allow him to hunt after 3 pm so it wouldn't interfere with the golfers. Kurt
Post by crbhawking on Sept 1, 2007 13:19:37 GMT -5
dirthawker2004 said:
its a good idea IF you can get permission. none of the golf courses will give us permission here where I am at
Here I haven't asked but I think the private courses might let me due to squirrels tearing up the course.
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Out here I asked a local falconer and he said that they are great to hunt. Here they are closed all hunting season due to snow which means that there are no golfers and they get to get rid of the pests for free.
Post by HawkingRage on Sept 1, 2007 20:49:18 GMT -5
I have permission on one coarse here and want the other one for squirels. the first one has lots of jacks and some geese.. the jacks are more what i want though.
If you let them know that you will go after ground squirrels or any other burrowing animal they will welcome you due to the holes they dig. I did not last year but will hunt the courses this year.
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I live right next to a golf course. I will be hunting it like mad. They close the course down for winter and its a public course so the owner said its cool to hunt. im stoked about it.
Sorry to kick up an old thread, but I have been researching fields and got to thinking about this:
do you think it matters much -legally- if the course is municipal or not? I get the impression that public courses arnt terribly difficult to get into, then private ones a lot harder. But is it even legal to hunt city owned/run golf courses? and if it is, would the process to get permission be any different?
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Digging this one up again. A big golf course near where I live employs dogs to chase off geese.
The grass carp in some of the course lakes where my parents live are so abundant, they have fishing derbies to keep the numbers down.
And the rabbits are soooo bad down there, I know I'd have a great place to hawk when I went South for the holidays!
With private courses, it's often about "who you know". See if you can get an introduction to the greenskeeper or one of the members of the Board, and sell your services as "free" and "environmentally friendly". While most golf courses are hardly conscious about the latter, they do spend a lot of time and $$$ getting rid of gophers, ground squirrels and rabbits via trapping and poisoning.
Be sure to demonstrate your knowledge of and follow rules about walking on greens and fairways, especially when waterlogged.
You might even volunteer to do a regular educational demo (probably without actual kills--lure stuff, flying-to-fist, etc) to garner the interest and support of club members. Maybe even get a few more people roped into the sport.
One thing that's a concern on private, gated-community golf courses. Many people who live adjacent to them have low fences, and very tiny dogs and cats. Raptors have a VERY bad rap in Tucson, for example, where I know of at least three people whose beloved lapdogs or kitties were snatched by wild hawks. My aunt, for example. I think she's back to drinking after that episode....
If on a golf course, I don't see anything illegal about using a golf cart.
Ride the cart out to the site of the slip, get off, slip the hawk to to the trees, follow along in the cart. The hunting is being done from the trees, the golf cart is only being used to keep up with the hawk. Same as a car/truck for longwingers who have to go get their bird.
Of course slipping the hawk from a moving golf cart, probably has the same legal restrictions as a car so check your state regs there.
Post by harrishawker on Oct 29, 2009 4:56:07 GMT -5
Squirrel hawking on golf courses I have permission to do so but as yet I have just not got round to doing it. And IMO there is nothing wrong with it. As for squirrel hawking from a cart I have never heard anything so nonsensical in my life. Then again have I fallen for a Joke here....Typical Thick Brit.
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