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Caught a hawk today

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DC:
When I was doing this umty ump years ago I found the mortality rate for captured hawks was rather high too. Apparently if they are hungry enough to go into a trap, they are quite often sick already. I lost quite a few. Of course the medical knowledge was pretty much nonexistent in those days. What kind of hawk is it?

Lefty38-55:
Great story and a beautiful bird!

But you got the rifle wrong ... as the ‘Hawken’ rifle was a muzzle-loading rifle built by the Hawken brothers that was used on the prairies and in the Rocky Mountains of the US during the early frontier days. It has become synonymous with the ‘plains rifle’, the buffalo gun (pre-cartridge gun like the 45-70 Sharps), and/or as the fur trapper's rifle.

Russ:
Dc it looks like a coopers hawk but might be a redtail hawk.

DC:
Not a Coopers, that's what I caught mostly. And Sharpshinned. The bright white breast is puzzling me.

Mesophilic:
It's a red tailed hawk. 

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