Some GOOD racer can race from more then 500miles.

 

How far do you want them to fly. Many races are 200+ miles

 

I heard they can fly up to 650 miles.

 

The longest distance i heard is from 700miles. Other then that, i dont know.

 

The longest race was over 1,000 miles. In what kind of time span are you asking about? They can fly 600 miles in a day.

 

I was talking about in a race?

 

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0F13FF3A5D10738DDDAA0894D0405B8584F0D3

 

Homing Pigeons



The homing pigeon comes from the family of "Columba livia domestica," or Rock pigeons. These birds have been bred to find their way home from long distances, as wild rock pigeons always return home to their nests. Homing pigeons can fly as fast as 30 mph, with small bursts of speed as fast as 55 mph. The longest flight ever recorded in pigeon racing was over 1118 miles (1800 kilometers).

Sometimes homing pigeons are used to carry messages. In this case, they are called carrier pigeons. Messages are written on the lightest paper possible, rolled into small tubes and tied to one of the pigeon's legs.

Homing pigeons, which are sometimes white, are also frequently used in place of doves in ceremonies such as weddings and sporting events where they are released for dramatic effect.



Read more: How Does a Homing Pigeon Know Where It's Going? | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4601077_homing-pigeon-its-going.html#ixzz1U6IjVgNs

 

Listen up Steveeman--
We "Race" our birds from 100 miles up thru 600 miles.
Some Clubs have a 750 mile Race and 1-2 have a 1,000 mile race.
One of our Club members hold a National Seppd record
His bird flew 453 Miles --winning speed was 85 MPH.

 

I agree with Sky. Most combines you will find anywhere from 100 miles to 600 miles. Our combine only goes to 500. Just depends on where you live and where you are located in the combine (for example, our "100 mile" race was about 250 miles for our farthest member). I would like to see more longer races.

 

Corpus Christi Tx to Omaha Nebraska.

 

Back in the 60's when I flew with the South Florida Combine we had a 1000 mile race several years in a row. To the best of my recollection, the same guy won it several years in a row with a grizzle. The prize was a trip to South America.

 

"The Trenton strain produced many of the first outstanding day-birds at 500, 600, 700 miles. The Indiana Trentons, from 1905 forwards, were regularly flown out to 1000 miles. In the Pittsburgh, PA area, the Harry Elston strain (strongly Trenton bloodlines), were flown out to 1300 miles"

"Let us look at a few records flights by the Trentons: in July 11, 1913, a Blue Checker half Trenton known as 'Bullet' homed into Fort Wayne from Abilene, Texas, 1000 miles late in the afternoon of the 2nd day to the loft of Oscar Anderson, a world record in 1 day, 11 hours, and 24 minutes, and 6 seconds making a speed of 1042.54 yards per minute. On the 24th of June, 1927, 'Bullet's' record was broken by 'Wayne Jr.' a full Trenton bred and flown into Fort Wayne by C.W. Oetting. 'Wayne Jr.' flew 1005 miles to his home loft in I day, 10 hours, 22 minutes and 20 seconds, with a speed of 1122.43 ypm."


"One of the latter a cock named 'Spotty' flew 1,000 miles five times collecting a first and a second with his last race at the age of nine years old."

http://loftone.net/Trentons/id10.htm

 

According to the AU, the longest race in America was 2039 miles, flown in 43 days 10 hours. I forgot about that. Basically across the country.

 

You beat me to it I was looking at the records when you posted.

 

Take a look at this page it's the speed records for the AU the longest race distance they have is 2039.065 miles back in 1937 it took the bird 43 days but it made it home.

http://www.pigeon.org/pdf/AUSpeedRecords.pdf

 

I'm amazed at some of the speeds those birds made in those long races the one that sticks out the most to me is - 1050-1100 H.A. Burdwood, Jr. N.E. Center 30-Jun-68 1094.525miles 1220.76ypm. The bird made a pretty good speed flying over 41mph for over 1000 miles. But looking at the other records it amazes me even more how the birds flew so fast. I thought the 2 fastest races I won a 300 mile race with a speed of 2121ypm doing the 308 miles in 4 hours and 15 mins and a 250 with a speed of 2274 dong the 250 miles in 3 hours and 13 min were insane but the speeds they have on there blow my speeds out of the water. The fastest is -100-150 Bobby Brown Wichita Falls RPC 27-Mar-04 102.143miles 2957.578ypm or 100.82mph just insane. I'm guessing he had a Electronic Clocking system because who would be waiting for their birds to get home from a 102 miles an hour after they went up.

 

Oscar Anderson's Bullet

Hello,

I found this thread during a Google search. My husband's grandfather was Oscar Anderson. Oscar had Bullet stuffed after she died. I guess Mrs. Anderson didn't want it in the house, so the stuffed bird got put in the barn, where the rats chewed it up. We do have a portrait that was painted of Bullet in 1921.

Regards,

Leslie Anderson
historygal2@aol.com