Crows with a RT

[Josh]

I was wondering if anyone has tried to take crows with a RT?

[cjinx]

Yea I think they have, some people like to Carhawk crows with Harris hawks... I would athink a male RT would be able to.

[Falcon Boy]

There is a video on youtube of a RT carhawking, it might even be in the theatre

[jfneumann57]

I'm pretty sure it's a male they use in the video.

[Josh]

i plan on training my MRT on crows come this fall. i will be using a dead crow with a line attached to it, and then i plan on putting it on a clay pigeon thrower and letting it go. once the RT makes contact i will pull the line for a bit to simulate a real crow exsperience. i hope to do some carhawking with the RT once he is locked in on crows. does this training idea sound like it will work?

Thanks

[jfneumann57]

It sounds good in theory. Let us know how it turns out. I plan on doing crows w/ a hen coops this fall.

[sevristh]

Any luck with the crow training yet?

[harrishawker]

This sounds amazing to me
Sid my MRT is around 790G and i would have thought far to slow for crows.

I will be keeping an eye on this thread ;D

[xjturnerx]

ok i want a little more on this topic. after squirrel season and before the moult this would be great. how would you go about entering the RT on crows. i have a lightning fast pmrt. very tenacious. and im not refering to only carhawking but just getting him to hit crows in general and if he is succesful with that maybe advance to carhawking. Thanks.

[Migisi]

Jan 18, 2010 19:11:07 GMT -5 xjturnerx said:

ok i want a little more on this topic. after squirrel season and before the moult this would be great. how would you go about entering the RT on crows. i have a lightning fast pmrt. very tenacious. and im not refering to only carhawking but just getting him to hit crows in general and if he is succesful with that maybe advance to carhawking. Thanks.

First, check your State hunting regulations for a crow season. As crazy as it sounds, crows are a protected species under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (amended in 1972 include crows). However, 50 CFR Chapter 1 20.1 allows states to establish regulations for crow hunting. One of the federal restrictions prohibits hunting them during the peak crow nesting period within a State. You need to find out when that is.

[xjturnerx]

seasons and laws and actually even doing it aside. i was wanting to know how you would go about getting the bird to do this

[Isa]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKybDIK04Xg The fella who posted this video gave an explnation of how he trained his bird:

"No, just shot one and froze it in a standing up position. Once it's frozen, drill a hole in the chest and stick something in it to prop it up. Get your bird to grab it. Once it does, reward it with something tasty like a quail or rabbit. It will pick up on it quick."
-thebooster99, YouTube