jasper24 Posted July 2, 2016 Report Share Posted July 2, 2016 What's people's opinion on what distance a pigeon is classed as racing rather than homing.Eg 100 mile race compared to Barcelona. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyleakin Lofts Posted July 2, 2016 Report Share Posted July 2, 2016 Dependent on weather conditions you should get a race up to 700 miles or so, but after that it becomes more of a marathon. It depends on what you consider to be a race. Sprinting where the start and finish are essential, mid distance where you are still able to have batches arrive, distance where they are strung out a bit more, but still arriving regularly or marathon where they are extremely strung out. All are still races, but it depends on just what you are looking for in a pigeon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philg50 Posted July 2, 2016 Report Share Posted July 2, 2016 Come and race up North of Scotland there nae such a thing as sprint a 60 mile or a 100 mile can turn out to be endurance race ,nae joking . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyleakin Lofts Posted July 2, 2016 Report Share Posted July 2, 2016 I race from there down and across country to Ayrshire so I know exactly what you are talking about. Quite apart from our feathered terrors in the sky, the weather make a massive difference to pigeon racing. When you have mountains and high hills like we have in Scotland, some areas develop their own climate, sea haar and mountain mist, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddymac Posted July 2, 2016 Report Share Posted July 2, 2016 Come and race up North of Scotland there nae such a thing as sprint a 60 mile or a 100 mile can turn out to be endurance race ,nae joking .Try racing into the N/west of Ireland, especially from the channel race points. Not for the faint hearted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaz Posted July 2, 2016 Report Share Posted July 2, 2016 in my opinion we all have more homing pigeons than racing pigeons. their is only a select few each week that race home the others home. the trick is to motivate homing birds to put in that bit extra and race . that's for all distances. omo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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