Bad Race Point

[grdkeith]

If there is such a thing!! Then what makes it so?

[Blue Tooner]

No bad racepoints only bad controllers....eh george😆

Great weather here in tenerife....should have had them away george🙄

[tiger]

yes consett

[walterboswell59]

yes imo such as wires to close and trees also to near a main road or motorway falcons nesting nearby that are on the birds as they are libbed lots of things can make it a bad race site or a combination of things but its up to the convoyer to report back to the race controller if he thinks there is a problem at any lib site as there the guys that see whats going on jmo

[grdkeith]

yes consett

Why?

[VMS]

No ,have heard ov challenging race points geographically but equal chance at lib for all.would rather win a hard race than a easy one.

[tiger]

Why?

 

last time there was 40% lost from convoy also the the fed week before got the same in fact the tyne vally is not good ,jmo

[Delboy]

last time there was 40% lost from convoy also the the fed week before got the same in fact the tyne vally is not good ,jmo

 

Aye, they call it the Bermuda Triangle, I would agree, Consett is crap.

[grdkeith]

Aye, they call it the Bermuda Triangle, I would agree, Consett is crap.

 

yet probably the most densely populated for fanciers flying into that area (UNC), the north of scoland fed have tried at least 4 different lib sites around that area in north england and never stayed long at any !!

I believe for us it is the first time the birds have to really think cos it is now approx 200 miles.

[greenbar]

always found otterburn a bit of a grave-yard,i think frankdoomans reims winner, was lost from there,that would be about 86 ml to frank,

[baldeagle]

many years ago I worked with a guy who had a caravan at stonehaven. when he learned that I raced pigeons he told me a story about one summer morning when he was lying in bed he could hear something hitting his caravan roof, on going outside he saw racing pigeons running around the site most of them with broken wings and a local jack Russell ragging them. he then noticed that the carnage was caused because the transporter had released them in the line of overhead wires, so when you loss a favourite maybe it too, was a front runner trying to weave thro.wires at liberation caused by human error.

[Wiley]

The London north road combine this year went to kelso instead of the usual berwick and dunbars and it nearly finished people off for the year birds have been reported on all routes of the compass

[VAGIN]

You should know this George Did our Fed this year not have a bad race out of Cowdenbeath where hundreds of Y/Bs were lost due to a BOP attack at the time of liberation. It cost the fed plenty in lost birdage We soon moved from that site Does that make Cowdenbeath a bad race point ???

[grdkeith]

You should know this George Did our Fed this year not have a bad race out of Cowdenbeath where hundreds of Y/Bs were lost due to a BOP attack at the time of liberation. It cost the fed plenty in lost birdage We soon moved from that site Does that make Cowdenbeath a bad race point ???

 

No cos previous races from there had been good,circumstances have a big part to play,the weekend of the cowdenbeath race had a north wind and every Fed that day got hit,some worse than us

[DJWa]

thornton in fife

every year we get 1 or 2 stinkers from there

 

some of the fife lads tell me we get hit every time we liberate from there

and that percy nests in a quarry beside there

 

did the north fed not lib from there and get hit

then Aberdeen went after them and got a good race

[grdkeith]

No bad racepoints only bad controllers....eh george😆

Great weather here in tenerife....should have had them away george🙄

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We had a small problem,Davie the driver thought I said turriff was the racepoint

[Dave barrie]

turra is the only racepoint ive ever been tae and its bluddy brill

[greenlands]

Years a go it used to be Crewe for the Cumbrian lads,this is when the Welsh birds used to fly North Road,obviously a clashing point of some sort.

[sarg]

Would love to know how any of you get on from Exeter or Newton Abbot race points, every time we have trained from past Exeter,which is only 10miles, we have been smashed every single time, birds found dead with wounds, or reported 120miles in the wrong direction. Our birds have to pass Exeter going southwest to get home, and its a hot bed for peregrines.

[Roland]

Many bad race points. Perth where they have to, well don't have to, but will go out through the valley like and then down via the coast. Like wise Lerwick where out over the seas till Grimsby, or the wash .. where incidentally they follow the shore round apparently.

Time the inland clubs flying North Road went up the centre and forgot the East Coast libs. Has been made like this due to the NRCC and them transporting the birds for others.... the East Coast club. None in our shire and very few in Leicester and Rutland ... say no more.

Mind Lerwick is one of the hardest races world wide, and certainly in the U.K.