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Russ:
Last year I tried to get my apprenticeship in falconry but, I'm too busy and don't have to money, but I still want to do it. Anybody else do or want to do falconry? just curious.  8) 8)

DC:
I did falconry when I was in my late teens. All hawks, never had a falcon. never got one hunting. Still have this sitting on my computer desk. I made it over 50 years ago. It's old and dusty like me. The Pliobond I glued it with is still holding. I actually met Frank Beebe and he gave me a European Gos that had broken it's leg and healed badly. I have number 573 (I think) of his book.

Russ:
That's cool DC! How much did it cost and how did you get the money to do it?

sleek:
Talk to JW. He is our local raptor guy. Somewhere there is a bald eagle flying around with a piece of his nose even... freedom tasted him.

DC:

--- Quote from: Deerhunter21 on April 04, 2019, 10:05:05 am ---That's cool DC! How much did it cost and how did you get the money to do it?

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It didn't cost anything except for gas. I trapped the birds myself. Chicken necks and backs were cheap. A little leather I got for a couple of bucks at the shoemaker(we had shoemakers back then). Frank Beebe's book was expensive. $75 in around 1965ish, about three days pay for a working man. My parents bought me that. One of my most prized possessions. I lent it to a friend and it came back with the back broken and jam sticking the pages together. I have to get that rebound.

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