Welcome to the Big Pigeon Race
If you like racing your old birds long distances at a reasonable price with interstate competition consider The Big Pigeon Race.
Long distance racing has slowly been disappearing but with your help we would like to change that. Our goal is to bring back old bird long distance racing at a reasonable cost and at the same time provide interstate competition.
In our first year we will focus on three states, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. We are not limited to the three states mentioned so if you are in another state and interested in the race please contact us.
We have a 94 slot trailer that can handle 2000 birds and two smaller trailers that can transport another 1700 birds. Our plan is to have the two smaller trailers picking up birds starting at Benson NC. One will go north along I-95 to Colonial Heights Virginia, it will return to North Carolina taking I-85 to Hillsborough NC where the baskets will be transferred to the large trailer. The other trailer will also start from Benson NC going south on I-95 to Florence SC, then take I-20 west to I-77 then go north to I-85 and continue north to Hillsborough NC where it will transfer baskets to the large trailer.
Our race station is Vincennes Indiana. All lofts must be a minimum of 400 miles from the release station. We will recognize state winners and distance winners, please see the awards page.
What is important to understand about our race is that you do not pay by the bird, you rent basket space.
The cost per basket is $70.
Distances to cities from the race station
Vincennes Indiana
41 & 150
N-38:40.717
W-87:29.264
City and Distance
Charlotte N.C. 437.554
437.554Salisbury N.C. 438.821
438.821Columbia S.C. 478.239
478.239Greensboro N.C. 459.963
Dillon S.C. 537.311
537.311Oxford N.C. 515.235
515.235Fayetteville N.C. 537.732
Raleigh N.C. 526.787
526.787Richmond VA. 552.925
Kinston N.C. 591.979
591.979Wilmington N.C. 613.311
Norfolk VA. 626.214
626.214Spartanburg S.C. 401.453
Washington D.C. 564.961
