Have no idea how good these guys are. Why not just learn from a falconer rather than paying a school to learn what you could from books, 'net and hunting with a falconer ?
Their apprentice course is 3 days. They do offer a hunting trip but no idea of the costs.
" Insanity takes its toll..........please have exact change"
They take you hunting more than once, leather craft were you make your own jesses, leashes and anklets. You get a free study guide and an awsome learning experience. You also get to see a wide variety of birds cloose up and their anatomy.
"You're a smart kid Johny, you really are, but as long as I'm around you'll only be second best." The Godfather
They take you hunting more than once, leather craft were you make your own jesses, leashes and anklets. You get a free study guide and an awsome learning experience. You also get to see a wide variety of birds cloose up and their anatomy.
But Pogo I thought you went to a school up in Reno?
Is this the same company? When I talked to them I thought they were closer to me than Reno.
Sorry if I'm confused and have wrong info.
" Insanity takes its toll..........please have exact change"
My own personal opinion is that you are better off not going to the school and hooking up with a falconer. I am not putting the school down, but, why pay for something that you can get for nothing. For what you pay at the school, you could buy yourself a nice receiver and transmitter. Morgan, I will forward you an email that I received today about the Lake Ming mini-meet. You will see all the birds you want and get to watch them hunt along with meeting the falconers who live in your area. This is the last meet of this falconry season and it is a 3 day camping trip. You will have lots of fun.
raptrlvr - well the school is not only hunting, its got the workshop in which you make hoods and stuff, it provides a lot of know how... I'm gonna be going to the Meet in Lake Ming by the way... its at the Kern River Campingground right? I'm going to be joining the Cal Hawking Club as soon as they get the application for 06-07 up... oh and your not *that* far from me )
As I said, if you want to make the drive, you can come out and watch my birds fly. I know at least one falconer who will be flying his female prairie through the molt. Its about a 2 hour drive from your house to where we fly. As far as the workshop on the hoods goes, it will be a while with a bit of practicing before you can make a decent hood. I usually spend the money and let someone else with more paticent than I have make them.
Well i'm almost 100& possitive i'm going to lake ming, if we come we'll be arriving around 10 pm ish on March 3. I have school and a driver's training appointment that day, so it pushes our leaving time until like 8 pm, and we live about 2 hours from Lake Ming
I've decided I won't go to the school. As cool an experience I think it would be, it cost WAY too much and it would push all my plans of getting my license this year to october, which would mean I'd miss the trapping season all together, and that would be sad. I seem to be doing good on my own anyway, I read entirely through www.themodernapprentice.com within 4 or 5 days, clocked 16 hours of studying one day (11 am to 3 am consecutively!)
Morgan, go to the Lake Ming mini meet and hook up with someone {falconer}in your area. See if you can spend some time at thier mews and talk to them about thier birds. If you want to make the drive, you can come out to my place any time you want. You will find that you don't need the school and the money can be used for other things.
yep i know, I'm gonna be up there. next weekend i'm going to be building my hawk box, i'm so excited, over the summer i'm going to be building my mews. but yeh not going to the school... going to the meet
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