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Members of the Disc Association
at Texas A&M University brought
back a handful of awards from the
Third Annual Texas State Frisbee
Championships held Saturday and
Sunday.
Kevin Sullivan placed fifth in disc
golf with a four over par score. Jim
Follin was 12th in maximum time
aloft competition with a throw that
stayed up for 7.5 seconds.
Jim Carollo made the finals of the
distance throw contest with a toss of
211 feet.
Phil Stallings and Kent Dowden
made the semifinals in double disc
court, a game which resembles ten
nis.
The Disc Association will sponsor
a tournament at the Texas A&M
University Drill Field Nov. 4-5.
Prizes will be awarded to winners
in disc golf, double disc court and
maximum time aloft competitions.
Participants can also compete in
freestyle, air brush races and field
goal shot contests.
A novice category will be open for
beginning Frisbee enthusiasts in
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“This is so everyone who’d like to
get a taste of Frisbee competition can
Battalion photo by Susan Webb
“Kublin” is a Harris Hawk trained for the the thrill of the sport is being able to watch a
hunting sport falconry. Lenton, its owner, says hawk hunt the way it does in the wild.
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Falconry - a complex sport
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By SUSAN WEBB
Battalion Reporter
I Hunting usually requires
parms, bows and arrows or sling
dots as weaponry.
Falconry is an exception to this
ate, using animals as weapons.
One who participates in falconry
mnts birds or mammals during any
described open season by means of
trained raptor, a migratory bird.
Lenton Rowland, a local master
alconer, says falconry is a time-
'onsuming and complicated sport.
"Expense comes in all the time,
nvolving the feeding of the bird
fvery day. A gun you can put up at
he end of the season, but with a
lawlc, you’ve got to keep it around all
i'ear, Rowland said.
Rowland was granted the title of
naster falconer by the Texas Parks
ad Wildlife Department. The de-
artment requires at least five years’
xperience in hunting game, taking,
•Assessing and transporting raptors
ir falconry purposes.
A falconer spends half an hour to
wo hours a day training the bird.
You train the bird on hunger, but
ou don’t starve it,” Rowland said.
If you don’t feed it enough it will
•ecome weak, but you should with-
Iraw just enough food so that the
•ird will become eager.
‘Ifyou train a dog, you train it by
eward or punishment, but you can’t
•unish a hawk — a hawk you can only
reward.” Rowland said that punish
ment to a hawk would eventually
provoke the bird to fly away.
A falconer has a limited amount of
time in which he can train a hawk.
“The only time to train is during
feeding,” Rowland said. The big se
cret of falconry, he said, is knowing
how much to feed the bird and what
kind of food to use. “If you feed the
bird too much today, then he’s not
hungry tomorrow and that cuts down
on your training time.
“Kublin,” Rowland’s Harris
Hawk, is hand-fed raw rabbit and
duck meat. The falconer occasionally
supplements the hawk’s diet with a
road kill (whatever game a hunter
cripples or a car kills) which Rowland
refers to as “a little vitamin pill.” He
said that it is important to vary the
bird’s diet and feed him the same
thing he eats in the wild.
To own a hawk for purposes of fal
conry, a state permit must be issued
to the falconer by the Texas State
Parks and Wildlife Department.
“Before you can get a permit, a writ
ten test given by the department
must be taken,” Rowland said.
“Questions usually include the gen
eral biology of a bird, migratory pat
terns, or anything pertaining to the
health of the bird,” he said.
A falconer must also provide cer
tain facilities for the bird which have
to be approved by the game warden.
The facilities should be fenced in and
shelter the bird from the outside
elements.
“The fence is to keep predators
out, not to keep the hawk in. Hawks
are never kept in cages,” Rowland
said. The thrill of the sport, Rowland
said is “observing a hawk hunting the
way it does in the wild, but you are
trying to control it, so ybii ckh par
ticipate in the hunt.
“The purpose is not to kill things.
You are out for the chase and quite
often you let the game go,” Rowland
said.
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