You're right with your words... So many persons involved in the sport yet you seldom see a tv show about it. This is indeed a big sport,tough competition and huge money is involved. Birds are sold for thousands of dollars. It certainly needs a series...
I'm here in India and can't help you out in this regard but wanna wish you tonnes of luck and success for the series,if it happens.

 

Kind of already done. Using Mike Tyson as the "interesting character".

So what you are looking for is, The Beverly Hillbillies that race pigeons?

I'm being serious here.

 

Beverly Hillbillies



So are you interested?

 

I'm not looking specifically for hillbillies but I imagine there are some folks in the sport who may fit that description. And in fact, I am trying to contact Tyson. I saw a special on Tyson some years ago about his interest in raising pigeons but not about racing. Does he race them?

 

Hey Jass thanks for the reply. I hope to be in touch via this forum or email again to pick your brain on pigeon racing. Do you yourself race or are you a fan of the sport?

John

 

Anytime John!!!
I've raced homers before 2009. But here the sport isnt as organised as in the west and results are not transparent+time and labour required to breed and train pigeons,its sort of full time job. Now I compete High flyer pigeons in high flying competitions.

I read somewhere that Mike Tyson may like to work on TV series again but no fresh news about it at the moment. He stepped into pigeon racing with Vinnie Torrie his coach. "Taking on Tyson" was the name of the series and I never missed an episode. We all know about his past and his attitude,he wanted to leave all behind and seriously race pigeons. Yes he tried racing and his lofts name is Tyson's Corner in NewYork.

 

Operation High Roller II?

 

Operation High Roller was a massive multi-million dollar fraud.

Are you saying this is/may be, a fraud attempt?

 

Just what we need another "Reality" Show most of them are Garbage, and NOT any way close to Reality.
Pigeons as the subject not withstanding.
The only reality Show left to do is one that should be called "Reality Check!"
Were someone does Fact checks on reality Shows and discounts the accuracy of the Facts.
Heck even Bizarre Foods showed a South American Opossum as the type they would eat in the Ozarks. ( I think that was the episode). (and that is one I like!)
I used to be Proud to be called a Hillbilly, until the reality Show craze came into being. LOL!
Besides, to the general Public, unless you stretched the Truth, and Dramatized it, it would have little Appeal.......... JMHO

 

Did a search on this Post, odd that he is a Web Developer, Ect. Ect.
But I could find no Web Page for him... The most Info. is from a Face Book Page which has 1/100 of the info. my Personal Page has.
AND no Links Ect. to a Web Page. Odd Uh?
He is out of Canada, Gee maybe he wants investors? LOL!

 

The guy is probably just another PETA snoop that's probably trying to dig up dirt against racing pigeon fanciers.

 

God, I hope no one is taking this seriously. Look the guy and the company up!
I have been able to get more info. on someone holding a Garage Sale then him.

 

There is never a good reason to kill a Bird of Prey. even if it was legal.
During the Summer the Local Cooper's Pair can be taught your Birds are not easy pickings.
During the main Flying Season, at least in most places you will have one Pair of each species guarding the Area from their own Species of BOP, as well as others
In the Spring and Fall you will have the Migratory BOP, (around here it is the Goshawks) There is nothing you can do but Lock down to discourage them.
Even if you were STUPID enough to Kill one, there will be another there soon,
as I have seen 6 or 7 at a time during migration.
I would rather not even own Pigeons then to start Killing them.
I grew up on 4 Acres next to a 450 Acre Forest Preserve, and it was RARE to see a Hawk or an Owl back then.
Legal or not, only a Soul less Idiot would Kill a BOP.
I see Cooper's take tentative passes at my Birds almost ever Day, they are looking for a Weak, or poorly trained Bird.
I have only lost One Bird to a Hawk this year, and it was Last April, when I forgot that oops! it was the First week of the Goshawk Migration.
GOSHAWKS do not give up like most Hawks will, and if they do not score on the first pass they keep coming.

 

You trained your local Coopers during the summer did you?
During the summer they leave most people alone because there is an abundance of young doves, quail, and song birds. Anyone that has pigeons should have enough common sense to understand that concept.

You have your opinion and I have mine. I put a lot more value in a strain of birds it has taken me a lifetime to produce than the life of wild and very numerous (TODAY) predators . The fact that the population has recovered seems to be lost on you even though you lament that you didn't see any back then and you are seeing a lot now.

You say Cooper's quit trying for your birds. I don't know what breeds you are flying or if you are flying, but I can tell you they won't quit trying for rollers. Once they take a roller, they come like ringing the dinner bell when the birds are released. They will stay all day long, and drive the birds up into night so that losses are not only what the miserable bastards catch but also what they cause to be lost by flying into the night. A lot of the roller fliers are being forced to lock down their birds for months during the winter to avoid losing every one they have raised due to the number of hawks and falcons that are present now days.

You are so squeaky clean you should contact the OP. He can come to your house and do the TV series. You'd make a great representative for the hobby, but somehow I doubt he would be interested in showing a self righteous liberal environmentalist. You have already drank the koolaid. He is looking for a feather in his cap or another target for PETA. He needs a down to earth old farm boy / ******* type to demonize.

 

I`m not hardly the best racing pigeon guy around...I love my birds...I do not cull any of my pigeons...I lose a few like everyone else...Most of my stock pigeons live so long,but they can still fly,and enjoy being out....I would make a terrible subject for a show....And I wouldn`t do it anyway...But as been said before here in this post....Beware of the devil,bearing gifts,and endearing words...Because he will bring you down to hell,if he could...So don`t let him,and don`t listen or receive these gifts of hate !!.......Alamo

 

The "taking on Tyson" series was pretty good. Tyson was the big name hook because of his long time love of rollers and flying flights, yet he was a newbie as far as his racing pigeons were concerned. He hired a crew and handlers to race his bids. The series included a variety of seasoned racers young and young at heart to give the series credibility. Although i enjoyed watching it, it still seemed lacking that special x factor you might say. Would love to see more productions about the special bond between people and their birds.