Ultimate Falconry: Duck Hunting in Texas | DU Nation — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:04you know taking a bird a wild bird like
3. 0:07that and that in my opinion is the
4. 0:09epitome of wildness and taking it to the
5. 0:12point where it's actually your willing
6. 0:13hunting partner to me it's like nothing
7. 0:15short of a miracle hey
8. 0:17girl on it
9. 0:23[Music]
10. 0:38[Music]
11. 0:39I have been a maniac about falconry ever
12. 0:42since I was a kid as early as sixth
13. 0:44grade people would ask me you know hey
14. 0:47what do you want to be when you grow up
15. 0:48and you know and they expect me to say a
16. 0:50policeman or some other and I would say
17. 0:52I want to be a falconer they look at me
18. 0:54like what's that you know and I well the
19. 0:56person who flies Birds you can't make
20. 0:57any money at that I'm like I don't care
21. 0:59about that I mean I just want to fly
22. 1:00Birds you
23. 1:03know falconry is the hunting of wild
24. 1:06game with a trained Raptor that's the
25. 1:08definition of FAL trapping a raptor and
26. 1:10and training a raptor is is not easy but
27. 1:13it's not overly difficult finding game
28. 1:16and catching game is by far the most
29. 1:18difficult part and we are generally
30. 1:19hunting three four five six seven days a
31. 1:22week during the hunting season our best
32. 1:25historical evidence says that falcony
33. 1:27starts uh in the Middle East the classic
34. 1:29cradle of civilization about 10,000
35. 1:32years ago when a lot of our other
36. 1:33animals were domesticated and those
37. 1:35advances in animal husbandry led to
38. 1:38people taking wild Raptors and using
39. 1:41them as hunting Partners we are Hunters
40. 1:43first and foremost and we do have to
41. 1:45follow all of the game laws that any
42. 1:47other Hunter would follow uh we do have
43. 1:49some extended season a little bit of
44. 1:51flexibility with some of the migratory
45. 1:52game for ducks we do get the full uh
46. 1:55full allotment of days to hunt with our
47. 1:57Falcons uh but we do have a reduced bag
48. 1:59limit so a gut Hunter has a six bird bag
49. 2:01limit we have a three bird bag limit
50. 2:03this is a GPS device it's like for dogs
51. 2:07but much lighter weight
52. 2:21[Music]
53. 2:30okay this let's just
54. 2:38flush on
55. 2:43it there you go y that my boys is house
56. 2:49[Music]
57. 2:55done hey girl
58. 3:03you see how her eyes are almost kind of
59. 3:04almost oval a little bit they're kind of
60. 3:06squinted a little bit that is the uh the
61. 3:09sign of a happy bird she's like yes
62. 3:12everything's good she's like Yep this is
63. 3:14a good day and that just means she'll
64. 3:17she'll decide I'm okay for one more day
65. 3:18and hang around cuz this a wild bird you
66. 3:20know and she could decide at any time if
67. 3:22I didn't treat her right she could say
68. 3:23hey I'm not doing this anymore I'm going
69. 3:27and that happens man I mean people push
70. 3:29their Birds and don't treat their Birds
71. 3:30right sometimes you know treat them more
72. 3:32like a a tul versus a living breathing
73. 3:35wild thing that that has a
74. 3:38Viewpoint the type of falconry we're
75. 3:40doing today is called waiting on
76. 3:42falconry and that falconry is about a
77. 3:45th000 years old and originates in
78. 3:47northern Europe and it's just like
79. 3:49hunting with a gun or hunting with a bow
80. 3:51you use the right tool for the job today
81. 3:54we're using paragan Falcons to hunt
82. 3:56ducks and their colloquial name is the
83. 3:59duck [ __ ] to become a falconer in Texas
84. 4:02is uh pretty difficult it requires a lot
85. 4:04of steps uh the first step is to get a
86. 4:07sponsor who's already a licensed
87. 4:08Falconer that is agrees to watch over
88. 4:10you for those first couple of years and
89. 4:12then you actually take a 100 question
90. 4:13tests and have to make an 80 or better
91. 4:15and that test generally covers
92. 4:16everything to do with falur including
93. 4:18laws as well as health all those kinds
94. 4:21of things and then you also then build
95. 4:22facilities that meet certain
96. 4:24requirements that are inspected by a
97. 4:25game board and then only then can you
98. 4:27get a permit and then you have a
99. 4:28falconry permit which allows you to get
100. 4:30a raptor for falconry generally people
101. 4:32trap their first Raptor and uh it can be
102. 4:35anything from several different species
103. 4:36and then that sponsor watches over that
104. 4:38person for the first two years as they
105. 4:40train their birds and go from
106. 4:44[Music]
107. 4:49there good
108. 5:00[Music]
109. 5:05[Applause]
110. 5:08get it girl the
111. 5:12water
112. 5:19thanks come on girl
113. 5:27[Music]
114. 5:34so we're talking about a wild animal
115. 5:36that is used to hunting on its own in
116. 5:38fact when you first capture a wild bird
117. 5:40it thinks at first that you're just
118. 5:41going to eat it that's all they know you
119. 5:43teach it to know you're going to feed it
120. 5:45and you use that food inducement to inch
121. 5:48by inch day by day bring them along into
122. 5:51a situation where they're coming to you
123. 5:53for food they're come into a lure I use
124. 5:56either a drone or a kite to raise bait
125. 5:58way up in you know and I'll teach the
126. 6:00bird to go for that bait and when
127. 6:02they're going up two or 300 ft to get
128. 6:04that bait before they make it I'll start
129. 6:06serving them a bagged game of some kind
130. 6:08to uh teach them that oh when they're
131. 6:10going up to watch over their shoulder to
132. 6:12keep an eye on me to um uh to see what's
133. 6:16going to happen once I've got them doing
134. 6:18that then it's just a matter of going
135. 6:21out to ponds when they're going up to
136. 6:22the bait and they're looking over their
137. 6:23shoulder at me I'll flush the Ducks lead
138. 6:25them along slowly but surely until
139. 6:27they're just without even realizing it
140. 6:29working together and once we've got that
141. 6:31Bond you know it's that's the best part
142. 6:34about it once the birds are looking
143. 6:35forward to it once you go out to pick
144. 6:37your bird up and it's literally shaking
145. 6:39in anticipation like a hunting dog just
146. 6:42say God we get to go out again that's
147. 6:44about as good as it
148. 6:47gets here girl she musts to go look at
149. 6:49her the body line she say oh okay I'll
150. 6:51do it again give me another chance dad
151. 6:55[Music]
152. 7:11[Applause]
153. 7:12[Music]
154. 7:14yeah woo
155. 7:18yeah that
156. 7:24[Music]
157. 7:38yeahoo
158. 7:45she's right here you see her right here
159. 7:47Straight Ahead oh I see her now
160. 7:49yeah right there there you go
161. 7:53girl there you
162. 7:56go yeah
163. 7:59okay all right I know I know you there
164. 8:02you go got
165. 8:03it you know taking a bird a wild bird
166. 8:07like that that in my opinion is the
167. 8:08epitome of wildness and taking it to the
168. 8:12point where it's actually your willing
169. 8:13hunting partner these are both wild
170. 8:15birds that you saw me fly today uh to
171. 8:18where they just don't want to leave you
172. 8:19they want to work with you to me it's
173. 8:21like nothing short of a miracle that you
174. 8:23can make that work
175. 8:26[Music]
176. 8:29w
177. 8:31[Music]