Delboy

The further east , the fairer it is for all. IMO, we should be flying out of Denmark, pity about the amount of water ( and you know its true )

HAMILTON 1 HAMS 1

DAVY, THE MINNOWS ARE LEADING THE TIC 1-0

lol Davy, Hamilton 1 Tic 0

Good advice here, sorry to hear this Tooshy m8, at least ye got it, well done. Keep the doos mated, block up all holes. Cheers

Fifer, youve too much time in your hands m8

Good luck with the sale Jim, alot of well bred birds in this sale.

it must be brux, which is banned here, I believe.

blood ( genes )is the main thing I would say. Ask any pigeon photographer, national winners come in all shapes and sizes, although ye hope they are pleasing to the eye because you have to look at them all year. I have 3 birds direct of national winners in the loft, every one is a fankle in the hand but we ll see how they go

Very good post Sammy, agree 100% m8

Dont need a paracetamol until my heeds sore

Have used them stacks of times and never had any probs until now.

This is very bad news for the sport in Scotland as SPDS are a heavily used courier service. I must say that this is the first complaint ive heard about them.Hope they havent went out the game.

Champion Shawhill Prince, ye should have put him in the garden John No joking aside, repeat bad trapping offenders at club racing are maybe better in the wheelie bin.The same race, I timed Peggy to be 1st west section 5th Open, she sat out 5 minutes but that was her usual.She was a notorious bad trapper but is responsible for almost 60 SNFC Diplomas.

Lanarkshire Social Circle yb Breeder.Buyer race . I get 2 together, my breeder buyer ( terrible trapper ) and a wee red hen ( fantastic trapper ) Needless to say, the bad yin kept the good yin out for 4 minutes and then stayed out a further 35 minutes. Done myself out of a few quid because I was both breeder and buyer. The lucky bassa ( raffles )Quinny won it and a few hundred notes into the bargain.

I could mention a few every year but ill just stick to the big races I was on phone to big Gareth Rankin when he timed in his good hen Rainbow from Tours 600+ miles on a miserable wet morning, around 06.38am. I was delighted for him and his dad as this was the first bird heard of in the west of Scotland. I sat at my bedroom window watching the rain batter down thinking what an achievement put up by this gallant pigeon, when my wee ch hen came like a rocket over the roof.I put my shoes on and ran out to the loft, she was a spooky fker at the best of times so sat away at the back of the loft.The time around 7am and I flew 16 miles further than Gareth. Needless to say it didnt matter, she didnt trap for about 15-20 minutes, timing at 07.23am Could I have caught the big fella to win the west section I was delighted with 2nd section, 11th Open

Ypres, SNFC 2010. Got yearling blue hen ( fancied ) at 7.30pm. She sat on roof across street and I called her for about half an hour.After my lad trying to get her off the roof with stones etc, we eventually decided it couldnt be her as she was normally a great trapper. Didnt get another bird on night so got up in morning and she was still there, sitting sleeping. I shouted at her out bedroom window, not even thinking she would react and still doubting if it was her. She sat up,shook herself and flew down right onto trap.The air was blue, she timed in around 5am and still won a diploma. I got this pigeon from Bill Southward, Cumbria and he told me it was a family trait for them to come from the distance and sit out all night. They just put the shutters up when they get home. If it does it from the Gold cup in 2011, the slug gun will be out Forgot to say, she would have been in top 25 Open SNFC.

No answer fae ye Dougie, I pmd you

Your onto something

Aye John, it looks a bit shabby but we had great training in it, didnt we.

here it is

Ive got one m8

Old system of geeing up birds, I had a similar system many years ago. No good when you want them later on at the business end of season

pmd you m8