RC K9

bahaha

It's like "I could care less." As in, you care enough to be able to care less, lulz.

What does "irregardless" mean?

That bridge over the Mississippi in St Louis scares me every time I cross it. Clenched butt cheeks every time.

I just need one of these from DFW to Columbus so I can come back and visit my OH peeps more than once a year.

I've heard great things about the Weller's.

When was the last time you cleaned your coils?

Did you degree the cams, or just toss them in straight up?

high 130's is well into 600awhp isn't it? I think calculations had my 131.75mph at an average of 525awhp down the entirety of the track.

What fuel are you running?

Here is Ventress killing a rat last week. Nowhere near as exciting as a rabbit chase, but hey, a kill is a kill. Any day you get your bird back is a good one. Any day you get a kill AND get your bird back, is a great one. Anyway, you can hear my annoyance that she carried the rat before eating it, but she is making a lot of progress in that department.

If you still have this when i'm back in Columbus again, i'd definitely consider taking this off your hand.

Ventress had never seen these kids before this day. As you can see, she is perfectly content. http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=854&pictureid=8901

$2k is a fair price. Ask him when I can pick it up.

With sprinkles.

bahahahahaha In all seriousness though, when you have a good raptor...they are awesome to be around. I let strangers and little kids touch mine. She is fine with it. The opposite end of that is not good. Getting footed by one of these things can hurt. Bad.

Not a freaking peep. They have been AWESOME all summer since my response letter. Like, literally, a 180 turn around. They will still be out there, but they keep the noise level to a minimum. Music is usually off or reasonably low by 10pm. Honestly, what I had hoped would happen did. Not saying they won't push it in the future, but they have been very good thus far. Ventress wouldn't care. She is super tame around people. I can be standing there talking to 5 strangers and she couldn't care less. Having a bird that is people aggressive is a HUGE liability. I know someone dealing with that right now. Has a 3rd hand captive bred female Harris' Hawk that HATES women and goes after them. Bad situation. That's exactly what you don't want from a raptor.

The irony at the end of that video has me cracking up every time.

I'm not sure if she would go after cats or not. They'd have to be smaller if she did, but that poses a whole other problem. One being liability. I don't need her nailing someone's pet cat or chihuahua then I have a lawsuit on my hands. Once a bird is wed to prey, I can't really unwed it. Once something is food in it's mind, it's food, so I can't tell it not to go after certain animals. Sounds like you need some divine natural intervention. Kind of like this:

Most dope.

I've never hunted deer creek state park. I used to hunt some private party way out past mount sterling, and I'd see signs for Deer Creek, but i've never been. I may need to try to check that out when I come back. As for the eagles...other raptors are always a concern, which is why you usually get yourself or your dog near the hark after it is on the ground with a kill as other raptors can and will try to kill them. Usually when I am in a field if the resident RT's don't fly away by the time I am out of my comfort zone, i'll usually try to scare them, or if I see them coming after my birds. The RT's won't usually connect as they don't want to risk getting hurt themselves, but its always a possibility.

Bahahahaha

Zactly

I can see both sides. When a hawk is done, there isn't going to be a whole lot that is left over, let alone go to waste. There are plenty of scavengers, (at least around here) that need to eat too. Opossum, two different species of vulture, coyotes, crows, etc. So I doubt that much is really being "wasted" per se. I am only guessing here, but I would venture to say that the reason the state has said laws in place is because if they didn't, you would have people out "hunting for rabbits" when really they are duck hunting, and taking 2-3 ducks in their game bag out of season. "Sorry Warden...we were going for rabbits, but she just kept going for these ducks in that ditch." Whereas, if you made it illegal to take said out-of-season game into possession, you have a lower likelihood of people actively going for out of season game since there really isn't much benefit to the hunter since he/she can't keep anything. Also, the law USED to be that if the hawk took out-of-season game or a protected species, you had to transfer it off of the game and leave the whole carcass. The state realized that most likely led to more unnecessary waste, coupled with the fact that hawks hunt anything, and as such, modified the laws to allow the raptor to eat what it kills. So in a way, the state has taken measurements to address your concern, while still attempting to keep the hunter/falconer from actively going for game that he/she shouldn't be after.