HARDEST ROUTE THEY FLY

just a thought , what is your opinion on the hardest route our pigeons fly i can say ive flown birds in to yorkshire from the south coast and southern france and from lerwick ie shetland isles in to yorkshire ,
but i think living down in the west country somerset and every race is all ways a head woind 99 % of the time
and from france they hit the coast line and have to dog leg back a extra say 90 miles adding nearly 90 mins to there fly then they have to face the BOP what frequent that part of the coast line , this is just my thoughts on the subject as ive done both and i can say its very hard to get a decent team together racing in this part of the world cos in national racing they have to contend with the drag and the sw winds we get nearly every week .
any thoughts on this please add them on cheers all .

no one got any thing to say on this very suprised ah well i tried .

sorry kev, nothing i can say about this topic, as you know im a novice and havnt got a clue about routes, drag and head winds.........also never flown a national.


i can make something up if you want.............

We fly in Guernsey its out to the west and as you said the wind is mostly west anyway,I think we fly one of the hardest routs, mind I send to the somerset one loft as well and that is bloody hard but thats why we send them to test the birds we have had two bad ones but thats the way it go,s ones you send them to these places they are no longer yours they are in his hands, Terry cant win if you get one its your bird thats done it if its a bad one they through the birds away, I can tell you their is no one thats looks after the birds better than Terry,

we up her ein the northeast do,nt get many head winds to be honest,i must adamit i do,nt like them every week like you lads get kev but i do like the odd ones to sort the crap out so to speak..a nice steadt flying day is what we want .a lot of good birds are lost in head winds for one reason or another,the main ones being the wires.at the end of the day we can only race what we race anyway ead or tail winds,but i suppose at least who you are flying against are all in the same boat

ginger i have a application from for the somerset one loft but don't quite understand it do you only pay £150 once or do you have to spend money on each race many thanks george

David wrote:

sorry kev, nothing i can say about this topic, as you know im a novice and havnt got a clue about routes, drag and head winds.........also never flown a national.


i can make something up if you want.............

hi david , come on lad you know a lot more than you make out , im on about any racing david not just national racing we have members from every part of the country on here and one person as posted , i just thought i would start a topic but seems quite at the mo . cheers kev .

hi kev, yes normally you would have got a much bigger responce, but with it being christmas its very quiet at the moment..............i know you fly in the nationals but do you know if its possible for me to fly in the mnfc as i live in leeds....?

yes david you can join .

right, so is there a section which covers leeds, and where do i basket.....?

there is a basket station i think in sheffield there might be one closer but im not sure
there radius is far and wide david goes as far up as liverpool and goes down to northhamton
in the south .

ah right, bit of a hike from leeds to sheffield then eh.........i wonder what training i would give them as we fly newark, peterbrough, reed etc.


sorry for highjacking your topic kev, ill leave it at that when you answer......