Hawks are God's Gunslingers

[Josealb]

Measured up to 180 miles per hour, this baby comes down on a prey like a lightning bolt from zeus.



Eagles prefer a more in your face tactic.



Anyone here has any falconry experience?

[Ian]

birds of prey are tremendous.

[kreese]

I thought this was going to be a thread about conservatives.

[Azer]

Nice vids!

[yusuf]

that wolf hunting video is amazing.. thanks

[kreese]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-8-manli ... e-internet



"Well, look at that: It’s the pimped out Chinese Raptor Cavalry. Jesus, I don’t even know where to start. Do I focus on his pelt of foxes? The fur-tipped clitoris on his head? Or the terrifying implications made by the World War I-era Kaiser helmet that his hawk is wearing?

No, instead I want to draw attention to something most of you probably missed: There appears to be a goat’s skull and spine where his penis should be. Appreciate that for a moment, please. He’s wearing the desiccated remains of a goat for a codpiece, and look at his face. He thinks that’s funny.

He’s probably the tribe’s comedian. I’m sure he has even more jokes to tell you; just lean a little closer, so the Raptor-Kaiser can whisper them in your ear."




"What on God’s swollen left testicle is the possible explanation for a man para-gliding with hawks glued to his elbows? Do the birds do his bidding, or do they despise him passionately? Are we witnessing the world’s first eagle-navigated flight, or the first terrifying seconds of a bird-murder? I do not know. I put forth that it is impossible to know. I suggest to you that this image is in fact a Koan: A Zen parable whose very inability to be explained will eventually bring enlightenment.

What, you disagree?

Well listen, hotshot, if you think you have a logical-sounding explanation for this picture, I suggest you either:

A) Look up the word “logic” in a dictionary, because you clearly don’t know what it means. Maybe you’re getting “logic” confused with “hot dogs” or “impotency.” It happens to me sometimes.

Or,

B) Have mercy on us groundfolk, Hawk-Man! Our pitiful senses are limited by the earth we must tread!"

[Andy_S]

Jose:

"Like a thunderbolt from Zeus?" Oh, please. My dear fellow, allow me to place before you the master of us all:

The Eagle

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

[Michael]

Eagles prefer a more in your face tactic.

I wonder which MA styles they're using? Anyone? Anyone?

[chud]

Measured up to 180 miles per hour, this baby comes down on a prey like a lightning bolt from zeus.

My dad was sitting in his chair by the front window of the house one day, reading.
All of a sudden he saw a flash out of the corner of his eye and heard a loud thud as something hit the roof above his head.
As he turned to look out the window, he saw something drop from the roof onto the front porch.
He got up and went to the front door, thinking some kids had thrown a basketball at the roof and it had rolled down and landed on the porch, but when he opened the door, there was a hawk holding a pigeon in its talons. When it saw my dad it took off with its prey.
Very cool. Makes ya wanna do sparrow hawk form.

[Steve James]

How's about eagles?

[Josealb]

Andy,

Lord Tennyson uses the term thunderbolt as a metaphor. The term is applied to a Peregrine Falcon in a very literal way.

And, eagles arent God's Gunslingers. Hawks are. Nuff said.

[Buddy]

Too freaking cool, jose! I posted this a a Native friend's blog. That community was confronted and disturbed by these images of one indigenous people's use of what they considered "sacred" animals. Good. Not every issue like this is homogeneous to every culture and it was good for him to see that. Still didn't see the point though.

[Ian]

[Chanchu]

My boss was jogging on day when a hawk flew down and bashed him in the skull, did not claw him just smacked him in the noggin just for the frack of it evidentaly. Said it felt like someone came up behind him and hit him in the head with a clenched fist and damn near knocked him over...

Those wolf slaying mongol golden Eagles are the coolest! Just the thing for pesky GD noise polluting dogs my GD hillbilly next door neighboors have!!

[klonk]

Raptors will sometimes dive bomb men's heads. I don't know why. You would have to ask them. Small owls have done it to me.