Lanakshire Support

[Guest bigda]

next week we have yearlings going to Messac which is just under 400 miles last year in same race half were yearlings half were older birds,we dropped one which was 2 years old,last week at Carentan we had 20 birds away,12 were 2 year olds and 8 were yearlings,we dropped one yearling and one 2 year old,if ours had to race 180 miles max then we would not even get them to the coast but it is each to their own what they do and how far they send them

 

i am not decrying anyone send yearlings to 300-400 mile races, what i am about is to protect the federation, and its middle distance and sprint fanciers IE the guys that have the most birds away in the fed, that helps to keep the show on the road, when there is a nat race on all 60 odd nat members will desert the fed, in there pursuit of there game and the max amount of doos they care about are 8 birds ave, split into 3 races mainly so 480 birds, and nat men are demanding the fed do as they say. like i say the nat men don't need to go to the 180 mile open, for our yearling race, but trying to get 250 miles for a measly 42p per bird is shocking any bird that was not a yearling in that race should have been charged £1 at least to make up prize money. the yearlings learned nothing from that race, if it was up to me, it would have been ( 1) a 180 mile race, and only yearlings in the race nothing else

and another truck used for older birds libbed after the yearlings at a further out race point there would have been say 1,800, yearlings at the race on Saturday and about 1,300 old birds so 2 transporters would have been ok

[Guest bigda]

Its in line with Aberdeen north to south and east of Edinburgh on that line

 

Aberdeen might look north, but true north is via Inverness way

[dms5686]

i am not decrying anyone send yearlings to 300-400 mile races, what i am about is to protect the federation, and its middle distance and sprint fanciers IE the guys that have the most birds away in the fed, that helps to keep the show on the road, when there is a nat race on all 60 odd nat members will desert the fed, in there pursuit of there game and the max amount of doos they care about are 8 birds ave, split into 3 races mainly so 480 birds, and nat men are demanding the fed do as they say. like i say the nat men don't need to go to the 180 mile open, for our yearling race, but trying to get 250 miles for a measly 42p per bird is shocking any bird that was not a yearling in that race should have been charged £1 at least to make up prize money. the yearlings learned nothing from that race, if it was up to me, it would have been ( 1) a 180 mile race, and only yearlings in the race nothing else

and another truck used for older birds libbed after the yearlings at a further out race point there would have been say 1,800, yearlings at the race on Saturday and about 1,300 old birds so 2 transporters would have been ok

Sprint racing will never compare with the thrill of a doo homing 14-16 hrs on the wing from a channel race

[Guest bigda]

Sprint racing will never compare with the thrill of a doo homing 14-16 hrs on the wing from a channel race

 

i would agree, but i don't pay fed fees, to support national flying. let the nat support its own, and we like wise.

Edited June 1, 2014 by bigda