Hawk Screamer
Contributors to this thread:Small Game
From: DonVathome
10-Feb-18
Anyone ever use a hawk screamer to stop a running rabbit?
From: stick n string
10-Feb-18
No, Used a benelli a time or two....
Interested to see the responses here, never heard of this
From: t-roy
10-Feb-18
I was sitting in a tree stand in Oklahoma one year, and had a covey of quail walk past me, feeding. I hawk-whistled at them, just to see what their reaction would be. They beelined it as fast as they could under the cover of a cedar tree.
From: TD
10-Feb-18
I have a "hawk scream" on my GSP's hunting collars. When the dog goes on point it senses no motion and the collar can either beep or scream depending on how you set it up. In theory it helps "hold" the bird. In all honesty I really don't know if it works any better than just a beep, but the pheasants don't flush when it first goes off. IMO it has some merit. But hard to prove as you rarely see them and what they are doing when the dog goes on point.
From: TD
11-Feb-18
Here it's either beep or scream or have no idea where your dogs are when they go on point. It's set to only make a noise on point, quiet otherwise. Think thick brush mountain mule deer country at 4 to 7 thousand feet.....you just catch glimpses of your dogs when hunting, sometimes only across the gulch on the other side. All the grouse I've hunted (sharpies mostly) tend to sit pretty tight. These pheasants and chukar run or wild flush alot. They know the dogs are there, no matter bells or beeps. I do think the scream holds em to a degree.Rabbits.... I have no idea.
From: Tilzbow
12-Feb-18
I have the same or similar collar as TD but turned the hawk screamer off and only use manually once or twice when the dogs first get birdie. Seems to help keep the chukar from running some. I can’t say it works any better than the motion detection mode but when that’s on it annoys me when it’s on when walking up on a pointing dog.
