Hunting
Logging hunts and slips, and reading your slip analytics.
Logging a hunt
From Log activity, choose Hunting and fill in the raptor, date, time and location as you would for training, then:
- Target prey and, if you caught something, prey count. Only catches are counted here, misses are logged per slip.
- Whether the slip was Caught or Missed.
Rating a slip
Every hunt lets you rate the slip, which feeds your slip analytics. Pick whichever is faster for the moment:
- Quick rating: Poor, OK, or Great, a one-tap read of how good the chance was.
- Five advantages: rate Height, Speed, Proximity, Surprise and Cover, each from 1 (prey had the edge) to 5 (your bird had the edge). Takes about 20 seconds.
You can also note Used height effectively?, whether the bird actually converted its altitude into a stoop, which is a different question from whether height was available at all.
If the slip was missed, record how the prey escaped: Outran, Dodged, Cover, or Froze. FalconryScale turns that into a short coaching insight, for example suggesting more approach speed after a dodge, or more open ground after a slip lost to cover.
Quick-rated hunts count differently
A quick-rated hunt still counts toward your success rate, but only a detailed, five-advantage rating shows up in winning-pattern analysis. Add details later from the hunt's detail screen if you want it included.
Slip analytics
Pro feature
Slip analytics are part of the Pro plan.
As you log detailed hunts, FalconryScale builds up:
- An advantage profile: how your bird's height, speed, proximity, surprise and cover compare with the community average for its species.
- Winning patterns: which combinations of advantages (for example cover plus height) win most often for this particular bird, with coaching narratives explaining why.
- A compare view, overlaying two of your raptors on the same radar chart (each bird needs a minimum number of logged hunts before it's eligible).
- A metabolic curve for each hunt day, showing GPH across the day's weigh-ins.
Advantages stack: surprise plus proximity together is more effective than either alone, so the goal is to set up slips that stack more than one advantage at a time.
This concept is based on the Slip Management idea from Four Falconry Fundamentals by Matt Mullenix.