Finally Fall! I have a variety of late hatches I really should be flying and then training. Man! So busy! I need to pair up my two Black Eagles. I'm not sure they were a pair after all.
The Evansville Racing Pigeon Club Young Bird racing season is going strong. Follow them at http://twitter.com/evvrpc
We are taking a break from racing this week because it is time once again for the Evansville West Side Nut Club Fall Festival We are booth #47 and the only place to get Pigeon Poo (it's a treat - you'll like it!)
Come on out to the nation's 2nd largest street festival (I heard this once, not sure if it's true). I see you at booth #47. It's a great cause! "Won't you please help us ship pigeons to Alabama?" :-) Oh, come on! Have a chili cheese hot tamale!
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Friday, January 22, 2016
I had an ACE Middle Distance Champion?!
| NATIONAL ACE PIGEON SUMMARY REPORT (Middle Distance) AU National Database 2014 Old Bird Season Printed on January 22, 2016 Qualified birds from Indiana POS AVE UNIRATE NAME RACING PIGEON CLR SEX QUALIFYING RACE MILES 1 4.229% Robert Threet 0319 AU 12 EVV BB H 224, 167, 224, 224. 2 4.953% Mark Helfrich 0981 AU 13 EVV BC H 168, 225, 309, 225. 3 5.881% Donald Goodwin 0967 AU 12 EVV BB H 227, 311, 169, 227. 4 6.085% Randy Bean 4836 AU 13 WII BCH H 98, 337, 141, 298. 5 6.111% Steve Helfrich 11435 AU 11 HELF RCOP 168, 283, 225, 168. 6 6.142% Mark Helfrich 0459 AU 12 EVV BB H 225, 225, 225, 283. 7 6.434% Mark Helfrich 0444 AU 12 EVV BC C 225, 168, 309, 225. 8 7.153% Randy Bean 6261 AU 09 IDA BCH C 98, 98, 337, 298. 9 8.462% Randy Bean 4849 AU 13 WII BCH H 186, 189, 337, 141. 10 8.509% Steve Helfrich 0234 AU 12 EVV BB 309, 168, 225, 225. 11 8.674% Randy Bean 0690 AU 10 IDA BCH H 186, 189, 298, 141. 12 8.738% Mark Helfrich 4811 AU 11 EVV BC C 168, 225, 225, 309. 13 9.450% Randy Bean 6838 AU 09 IDA BCH C 186, 98, 337, 189. 14 9.588% Steve Helfrich 0238 AU 12 EVV BC 309, 225, 225, 168. |
I have been scaling back, so I gave this bird and his father to other club members.
I was not aware of this. Thanks Carl for pointing it out.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
No Futurity Race
There will be no Futurity Race for me this year. I had only one of my 10 futurity birds left. For some reason, this was a particularly high loss season. She had been out 165 miles when I lost all of the remaining futurities so I held her back and just gave her deep training drops along with the rest. On her 4th drop from 64 miles, she did not come home. That was Sunday. On Monday evening, while driving home on the divided highway I saw a dead bird - a pigeon! It had to be a pigeon the size and color were right and there's not a lot of pigeons in the suburbs so it stood out (still amazing that I noticed it). I pulled over and walked back. Yup! A pigeon wearing the same blue race bands I use. I grabbed it's foot and pulled it back from the road to flip it over (I can't imagine what the passing cars thought of my actions). Sure enough, it was my last futurity bird. What a strange thing!
Saturday, September 17, 2011
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
It's been busy. I missed a real high point. After 5 seasons of Young Bird Racing, I finally won!
National Database-1 EVANSVILLE RACING PIGEON CLUB 09/17/11-12:44
Mt. Vernon IN
Weekly Race Report Page 1
Open and Junior Category
Name: FT. CAMPBELL 1 Young Bird Race Flown: 08/31/2011
Release(A): 07:00 Birds: 188 Lofts: 8 Station: FT. CAMPBKY (0201)
Weather (Rel) PC, SE 5, 60 deg (Arr) PC, SE 7, 80 deg
POS NAME BAND NUMBER CLR X ARRIVAL MILES TOWIN YPM WS Cus Pts NDB Std Pts
1 THREET ROB/30 5311 AU 11 EVV BB H 08:46:02 91.384 00.00 1516.795 187 97
2 THREET ROBERT 5393 AU 11 EVV GRIZ H 08:46:14 2/30 00.12 1513.892 186 95
3 THREET ROBERT 5324 AU 11 EVV BLK H 08:46:25 3/30 00.22 1511.355 185 92
4 HELFRICH S/30 11323 AU 11 HELF BB 08:48:19 92.274 01.14 1499.335 184 89
5 HELFRICH STEV 11306 AU 11 HELF BC 08:48:20 2/30 01.15 1499.104 183 87
6 HELFRICH STEV 11310 AU 11 HELF BCWF 08:48:20 3/30 01.15 1499.104 182 84
7 HELFRICH STEV 11327 AU 11 HELF BB 08:48:20 4/30 01.15 1499.104 181 81
8 HELFRICH STEV 11307 AU 11 HELF BC 08:48:21 5/30 01.16 1498.874 180 79
9 HELFRICH STEV 11329 AU 11 HELF BC 08:48:22 6/30 01.17 1498.643 179 76
10 HELFRICH STEV 11390 AU 11 HELF BC 08:48:27 7/30 01.22 1497.492 178 73
11 HELFRICH STEV 11321 AU 11 HELF BC 08:48:33 8/30 01.28 1496.112 177 71
12 HELFRICH STEV 11360 AU 11 HELF RC 08:48:48 9/30 01.43 1492.674 176 68
13 HELFRICH STEV 11366 AU 11 HELF BB 08:48:53 10/30 01.48 1491.532 175 65
14 HELFRICH STEV 11328 AU 11 HELF QUAL 08:49:05 11/30 02.00 1488.797 174 63
15 HELFRICH STEV 11314 AU 11 HELF BB 08:49:06 12/30 02.01 1488.570 173 60
16 HELFRICH STEV 11402 AU 11 HELF BBWF 08:49:06 13/30 02.01 1488.570 172 57
17 HELFRICH STEV 11394 AU 11 HELF BKSP 08:49:09 14/30 02.04 1487.888 171 55
18 HELFRICH STEV 11401 AU 11 HELF BCSP 08:49:11 15/30 02.06 1487.434 170 52
19 HELFRICH STEV 11311 AU 11 HELF BB 08:49:14 16/30 02.09 1486.753 169 49
--------------------------------- Above are 10 percent -------------------------The next race - no so good. 70th place and I dropped 7 birds (out of 31). We flew the first two on Wednesdays to avoid dove season opening weekend. I picked up 2 birds just in time for race 3. I held back the two stragglers and sent24 birds. I only got back 8 race day! So, at the end of the day I now had 10 birds.I had 31 only four days earlier. Very depressing. I did get several birds in the top 10% and 20% though.
National Database-1 EVANSVILLE RACING PIGEON CLUB 09/17/11-12:49
Haubstadt IN
Weekly Race Report Page 1
Open and Junior Category
Name: COLUMBIA 5 Young Bird Race Flown: 09/10/2011
Release(A): 07:00 Birds: 159 Lofts: 8 Station: COLUMBIA, TN (0203)
Weather (Rel) PC, Calm, 52 deg (Arr) Cloudy, WSW-5, 75 deg
POS NAME BAND NUMBER CLR X ARRIVAL MILES TOWIN YPM WS Cus Pts NDB Std Pts
1 SIMPSON DON/8 4434 AU 11 EVV BKCK H 10:57:52 179.426 00.00 1327.593 316 97
2 SIMPSON DON 4430 AU 11 EVV BLCK C 11:01:08 2/8 03.16 1309.527 314 94
3 GOODWIN DO/30 4561 AU 11 EVV BC H 10:50:01 169.333 05.32 1295.631 312 91
4 HELFRICH S/30 11307 AU 11 HELF BC 10:50:49 167.769 08.24 1279.229 310 87
5 GOODWIN DON 4596 AU 11 EVV BBWF H 10:54:57 2/30 10.28 1268.427 308 84
6 SIMPSON DEB/6 4485 AU 11 EVV BLCK H 11:10:33 179.426 12.41 1260.363 306 81
7 SIMPSON DEBBI 4483 AU 11 EVV BLCK H 11:10:35 2/6 12.42 1260.220 304 78
8 THREET ROB/24 5323 AU 11 EVV BB C 10:58:39 167.476 16.37 1235.086 302 75
9 HELFRICH M/30 4859 AU 11 EVV BC C 11:03:58 167.945 21.18 1211.598 300 72
10 HELFRICH STEV 11306 AU 11 HELF BC 11:03:53 2/30 21.28 1210.692 298 69
11 HELFRICH MARK 4114 AU 11 EVV BB C 11:04:10 2/30 21.30 1210.606 296 65
12 HELFRICH STEV 11315 AU 11 HELF BBWF 11:03:56 3/30 21.31 1210.444 294 62
13 HELFRICH MARK 4802 AU 11 EVV RB C 11:04:58 3/30 22.18 1206.652 292 59
14 BUTCH GARR/15 4314 AU 11 EVV H 11:02:17 165.270 23.10 1200.609 290 56
15 BUTCH GARRISO 4324 AU 11 EVV H 11:07:23 2/15 28.17 1175.801 288 53
16 SIMPSON DEBBI 4480 AU 11 EVV BLCK H 11:33:48 3/6 35.55 1153.361 286 50
--------------------------------- Above are 10 percent -------------------------
17 SIMPSON DON 4040 AU 11 EVV BLCK C 11:33:50 3/8 35.57 1153.220 284 47
18 SIMPSON DEBBI 4482 AU 11 EVV BB C 11:33:52 4/6 36.00 1153.045 282 43
19 SIMPSON DON 4041 AU 11 EVV BLCK H 11:33:55 4/8 36.03 1152.834 280 40
20 SIMPSON DEBBI 4050 AU 11 EVV GRIZ C 11:33:58 5/6 36.06 1152.631 278 37
21 SIMPSON DON 4435 AU 11 EVV BLCK C 11:36:45 5/8 38.53 1141.039 276 34
22 GOODWIN DON 4509 AU 11 EVV BB H 11:24:04 3/30 39.34 1128.607 274 31
23 HELFRICH STEV 11314 AU 11 HELF BB 11:23:12 4/30 40.47 1121.839 272 28
24 GARRISON B/16 4275 AU 11 EVV RDCK H 11:37:03 163.374 01:00 1037.857 270 25
25 BUTCH GARRISO 4312 AU 11 EVV H 11:47:32 3/15 01:08 1011.660 268 21
26 BUTCH GARRISO 4353 AU 11 EVV H 11:47:32 4/15 01:08 1011.649 266 18
27 BUTCH GARRISO 4322 AU 11 EVV H 11:47:35 5/15 01:08 1011.473 264 15
28 BUTCH GARRISO 4306 AU 11 EVV H 11:47:37 6/15 01:08 1011.320 262 12
29 GARRISON BUTC 4218 AU 11 EVV BLCK H 11:51:48 2/16 01:15 985.396 260 9
30 THREET ROBERT 5321 AU 11 EVV BLK C 12:12:15 2/24 01:30 943.969 258 6
31 THREET ROBERT 1229 AU 11 APA BC H 12:20:15 3/24 01:38 920.365 256 3
32 SIMPSON DON 4432 AU 11 EVV BLCK H 12:43:44 6/8 01:45 918.702 254 0
--------------------------------- Above are 20 percent -------------------------
Today's race was one of the best for my birds - not sure how I did against theother but 9 out of 10 came in at the expected time. I may only have 11 birds left,but the are pretty good based on that race. Gotta go - they are waiting on a bath(since they can hear that I gave the breeding loft baths). :-)
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Chicken Guts Made Me Late
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| Not my pic - Never got that close. |
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Jumping up another 22 miles
The birds are easy to load. And very quiet - except one: Ug! That ugly common has trapped back in! I took him off 42 miles and he came back two days later after (as far as I know) only being in the loft one day. Impressive homing instinct for a mature, untrained common barn pigeon. Let's see if he can come back from 64 miles.
I was early. The site is higher so just as I got there the elevation rose so that the sun rose. I would give it another 12 minutes while the birds settled. I gave the common a 12 minute head start. ;-) When I released them, they circled only once and then headed on an exact bearing for home. Sixteen beat me home. According to the weather channel, they had a 2mph head wind and still covered 64 miles in 67 minutes. (Wow! Please do that in a race sometime!) The other half was WAY out. My theory is these guys were so fast the others wore out trying to keep up and must've set down to rest because they have been coming in all together from 42 miles (last 3 of 5 drops anyway).
Surprises - 5391, the son of 306, came in 3rd seconds behind the first two (the first 15 all clocked in within 2 minutes. 306 was the son of a white show racer and my slowest but very loyal 500 mile bird. It'll be interesting to see how he does in races.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Lookin much better from 42 miles
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| My favorite drop |
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| racing pigeons against sunrise |
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