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Post by HighCotton on Jun 30, 2019 16:55:13 GMT -5
Job has me traveling a good bit.
Strange deal the other day as I was as headed up I-65 to Chicago. Somewhere around mile marker 216-217 I noticed something right next to my driver window.
Kind of startled me at first. I quickly realized it was a pigeon.
I had the cruise set at 70 and this thing was maybe 2 feet off my driver mirror hanging right with me. And it cruised with me like it was racing me, or maybe drafting!
I don’t know what it was doing but it didn’t even seem to be laboring. As I exited off the Fair Oaks edit 220, the pigeon continued with another vehicle down 65.
Very cool
And kind of strange to me.
Any idea what gives here? Somebody raise racing pigeons around there? Or just a really fast bird?
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Post by esshup on Jun 30, 2019 17:43:04 GMT -5
I don't have an answer for you, but when I was doing a lot of Spaniel training we used a LOT of pigeons. I used 1 1/4 oz. #7's at 1,330 fps backed up by the next shot being 1 3/8 oz. buffered #6's at 1,380 fps. They couldn't outfly those, although they really tried.
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Post by parson on Jun 30, 2019 18:30:12 GMT -5
Russian drone!
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Post by greyhair on Jun 30, 2019 22:14:30 GMT -5
Bad hooch?
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Post by saltydog on Jul 1, 2019 4:31:04 GMT -5
Carrier Pigeon maybe ?
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Post by HighCotton on Jul 1, 2019 5:29:29 GMT -5
Or some REALLY GOOD HOOCH?! |
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Post by HighCotton on Jul 1, 2019 5:31:29 GMT -5
I don't have an answer for you, but when I was doing a lot of Spaniel training we used a LOT of pigeons. I used 1 1/4 oz. #7's at 1,330 fps backed up by the next shot being 1 3/8 oz. buffered #6's at 1,380 fps. They couldn't outfly those, although they really tried. Been there! At one point I had a crazy thought about rolling down the window and trying to grab the crazy thing. And then my thoughts turn to trying to get a video or picture but by that point I was exiting. |
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Post by genesis273 on Jul 1, 2019 6:40:33 GMT -5
My neighbor raises pigeons and told me last week that he's missing a pair. And you know I don't live too far from the 220 exit HCG. Lol!
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Post by HighCotton on Jul 1, 2019 9:47:07 GMT -5
My neighbor raises pigeons and told me last week that he's missing a pair. And you know I don't live too far from the 220 exit HCG. Lol! Seriously?! That is too crazy. Knowing you were in that neck of the woods, I wondered if you might know something about this!! I wonder if they are marked or banded somehow? I didn't notice anything like a band, but then I wasn't really looking for one either. |
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Post by genesis273 on Jul 1, 2019 12:37:33 GMT -5
That's a good question. He didn't mention bandings and I failed to ask
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Post by nfalls116 on Jul 1, 2019 15:15:27 GMT -5
My neighbor raises pigeons and told me last week that he's missing a pair. And you know I don't live too far from the 220 exit HCG. Lol! I was up there Saturday! |
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Post by omegahunter on Jul 3, 2019 13:53:12 GMT -5
That's a good question. He didn't mention bandings and I failed to ask My uncle bands his. |
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