distance pigeons

[Darnaway]

Albear,

             i agree with your comments and if thunderbolt would like some more percy,s then i,m sure we wouldn,t miss a couple of 100.

 

I personally usually only race to 370 miles therefore i take my hat off to all Fanciers from the U.K that time in routinely from the longer distances ( if only the birds could talk then we would find out which is the hardest route)

 

Best of luck to all in the new Season & Hotrod can you do it again this year ?

[Darnaway]

Thunderbolt,

                    can you play football ( we might need you)

[thunderboult]

Albear,

             i agree with your comments and if thunderbolt would like some more percy,s then i,m sure we wouldn,t miss a couple of 100.

 

I personally usually only race to 370 miles therefore i take my hat off to all Fanciers from the U.K that time in routinely from the longer distances ( if only the birds could talk then we would find out which is the hardest route)

 

Best of luck to all in the new Season & Hotrod can you do it again this year ?

 

we have more than enough down here as it is, 2 yrs ago half way through the old bird season i had 9 cocks out injured through hawks(it's tough going when you only have about 15 cocks to start with ). last season i lost my 2 best cocks on short training tosses(3+4yr old birds) birds like these don't get lost. my 2 cocks from tarbes last season have both missed a year racing due to hawk attacks(ripped open) i think i see more than my fair share of hawks, and thats's without the sparrow hawks around home. which are about every day as i live close to the countryside.  

 

[thunderboult]

Thunderbolt,

                    can you play football ( we might need you)

 

i used to be a good(local league) no nonsense full back in my day lol (i'm only 38 now) and way past it lol

[walterbmasson]

 

THUNDERBOULT IS THE HAWKES FASTER IN WALES I KNOW YOU GET RAIN ITS RIVERS IN SCOTLAND AND GOLDEN EAGLES IN WINTER ITS GOLF BALLS [O ] SORRY HAIL DOES YOUR VELOCITY STOP AT 400YDS OR IS IT AN OPEN VERDICT 7 DAY CLOCK HA HA ..........OR IS IT JUST LONG DISTANCE BIRDS  :-/ :-/ :-/

[thunderboult]

THUNDERBOULT IS THE HAWKES FASTER IN WALES I KNOW YOU GET RAIN ITS RIVERS IN SCOTLAND AND GOLDEN EAGLES IN WINTER ITS GOLF BALLS [O ] SORRY HAIL DOES YOUR VELOCITY STOP AT 400YDS OR IS IT AN OPEN VERDICT 7 DAY CLOCK HA HA ..........OR IS IT JUST LONG DISTANCE BIRDS  :-/ :-/ :-/

 

to be honest with you , i can't understand most of which you written. but the bit at the end seems like a dig at our racing. i race with the bbc,welsh south road(who go with the woec,cscfc,lsecc) and this year i've joined the nfc(i'm sure you know what vels. they're races close at). at the moment some are homing for me in race time, some are not.

[hotrod]

ok i take back the easiest part( i did'nt mean easy by it) but i still don't agree with what a few on here have said that the scottish birds have the toughest route. that's just my views, i'm not looking to offend anyone,least of all the scots as my gran is scottish and am proud of it.    

does ( can 'o' worms) spring to mnd mate

lol

 

[thunderboult]

does ( can 'o' worms) spring to mnd mate

lol

 

lol yeah a bit, i should have known better.

[W.D.]

What about the birds that are liberated in Lerwick? Where do they stand?

[Darnaway]

Thunderbolt,

                      Scotland is always looking for quality players for the National Team and even at 38 i,m sure you still have a game left in your legs.

 

I will pass your details on and if selected i will personally purchase thermals and a wooly hat for you.

 

All the best from Bonny Scotland

[Darnaway]

W.D   they don,t have it easy either

[thunderboult]

What about the birds that are liberated in Lerwick? Where do they stand?

 

i have a lot of admiration for them birds because that is a tough race point, maybe because many in wales don't fly it anymore(or don't they go there at all anymore), it does'nt get thought of as much these days.  i was only thinking of south road racing. but thinking about ti the wind don't normally help neither does it.

[hotrod]

 

i have a lot of admiration for them birds because that is a tough race point, maybe because many in wales don't fly it anymore(or don't they go there at all anymore), it does'nt get thought of as much these days.  i was only thinking of south road racing. but thinking about ti the wind don't normally help neither does it.

well what you said must apply to the lerwick birds they hit water early on then its easy according to you

 

 

[thunderboult]

hahaha  i won't need them, i love the outdoors. being a keen seafisherman(only in the winter since i've had the birds) all my life. when we had that snow the other day i went up the mountains for drive i love it.

[thunderboult]

well what you said must apply to the lerwick birds they hit water early on then its easy according to you

 

 

oh no hotrod, lerwick is diffrent, your birds are liberated over land and have a hundred or so miles before they reach the water,but lerwick is only a small island in the middle of the sea with land a hundred miles away at the shortest point. and i did'nt say it was easy then, so stop making things up.

[W.D.]

W.D   they don,t have it easy either

 

Bet you they must get a shock when they get out the baskets and all they can see is water all around them???!!!

[walterbmasson]

THUNDERBOULT HAVE YOU HEARD WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ORCHARD QUEEN WON THE NATIONAL IT TOOK ANOTHER 30HRS BEFORE ANOTHER TIME IN I WILL GIVE GIVE YOU A GUESS WHAT WAS THE RACE POINT     

[les]

Thunderbolt,

                      Scotland is always looking for quality players for the National Team and even at 38 i,m sure you still have a game left in your legs.

 

I will pass your details on and if selected i will personally purchase thermals and a wooly hat for you.

 

All the best from Bonny Scotland

darnaway ,there will be plenty of quality players in scotland on sunday but they will be playing with a funny shaped ball ,and they all come from WALES  ;D ATB les.

 

 

[thunderboult]

THUNDERBOULT HAVE YOU HEARD WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ORCHARD QUEEN WON THE NATIONAL IT TOOK ANOTHER 30HRS BEFORE ANOTHER TIME IN I WILL GIVE GIVE YOU A GUESS WHAT WAS THE RACE POINT     

 

sorry walter, i've never hear'd of her, but if she was 30 hrs before the next bird i'll guess rome or barcelona.

[Darnaway]

Thunderbolt,

                   i will watch the game with anticipation, come on the scots

[thunderboult]

Thunderbolt,

                   i will watch the game with anticipation, come on the scots

 

i think it will be a close game, i would'nt like to say who'll win.

[hotrod]

 

oh no hotrod, lerwick is diffrent, your birds are liberated over land and have a hundred or so miles before they reach the water,but lerwick is only a small island in the middle of the sea with land a hundred miles away at the shortest point. and i did'nt say it was easy then, so stop making things up. [/quot . i remember when most of scotland raced from western france they flew up the cherbourg peninsula then crossed about 100 miles of water ,and by the way im not saying racing from lerwick  is easy far from it, but neither is racing to scotland from france

 

 

[Guest asha]

I`m pretty sure thunderbolt got the right idea about scotch birds,this hype started when everyone and their grandmother were trying to sell kirkpatricks late 60,s early seventies,obvious some good birds,but very overated none the less ,funny how those jocks think the griz modifier belonges to them,many had a.r.hills griz blood in,opposite end from you lot,and more east to west flying like berlin club.

   The big problem i have with prizes from lerwick,mostly,theoverated NRCC,is very short flying for a Kings cup,most winners get hype for what is really most cases less than 500 miles,like bristow this year,,to be sure,topclass  fancier,butwould have problems flying that typeof bird and system 100miles further.

and thunderbolt,i wouldnot waste your valuble time on that hotrod,he really thinks 560 on the day is the be all and endall of racing,no wonder the scots have gone backwards.

              

[thunderboult]

 

oh no hotrod, lerwick is diffrent, your birds are liberated over land and have a hundred or so miles before they reach the water,but lerwick is only a small island in the middle of the sea with land a hundred miles away at the shortest point. and i did'nt say it was easy then, so stop making things up. [/quot . i remember when most of scotland raced from western france they flew up the cherbourg peninsula then crossed about 100 miles of water ,and by the way im not saying racing from lerwick  is easy far from it, but neither is racing to scotland from france

 

no long distance racing is easy, only a fool would think that. i probaly got a bit carried away after listening to a few scots say they had  the toughest route. i know it's just as bad down here were i live for hawks and what av you, so i was sticking up for my part of the world which vary rarely get's a mention but is a very hard place to compete against the english.

 

[gd]

For me it doesn't make much difference where the birds are flying into - all destinations will ahve there advantages/disadvantages depending on conditions on the day ,and everyone from their own area will have an argument to say their birds have it tougher. but I would rather have a bird thats beat 20 or 30 thousand so I look to birds that top the unc as the birds of most ability.  ;-)