decoying mad Posted April 1, 2010 Report Share Posted April 1, 2010 was haveing a conversation last night in the pub and was asked which is the fastest pigeon or pheasent? as i have not shot pheasent before i hazard a guess at pheasent if it was a straight line race was i right or totaly wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smig4373 Posted April 1, 2010 Report Share Posted April 1, 2010 Wrong.....pigeon faster.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decoying mad Posted April 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2010 Wrong.....pigeon faster.... cheers smig that ****** on my bonfire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colster Posted April 1, 2010 Report Share Posted April 1, 2010 Depends.... you said a straight line race, you don't mention anything about flying. On the wing, the pigeon would take it easily cos pheasants aren't much better at flying than chickens but on foot the pheasant would win. Pheasants are pretty quick on the ground, pigeons just look silly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekers Posted April 1, 2010 Report Share Posted April 1, 2010 Time for someone to go and do some digging because I was under the impression BOTH were very similar>>> Normal flight speed of Wood Pigeon is between 30-40mph, they can hit 60mph if they try hard! Normal flight speed of the Pheasant is between 30-40 mph, they can hit 60mph if they try hard! This is NORMAL flight and takes no account of Tail winds or Dives!, in these cases speeds can of course increase. ATB!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted April 1, 2010 Report Share Posted April 1, 2010 Read in my local paper a while back that a local pigeon fancier won a race were the birds were released in france and the average speed of the pigeon was 58 miles an hour and thats if he came home in a straight line . Harnser . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WGD Posted April 1, 2010 Report Share Posted April 1, 2010 I thought pigeon were faster on the wing (and my eye would tend to agree), but when running and with feet on the ground the pheasant is fastest bird in th UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegleg31 Posted April 1, 2010 Report Share Posted April 1, 2010 i would of said pigeon,however i was surprised to find that partridge fly slower than pheasent's(i'm sure i read it somewhere ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted April 1, 2010 Report Share Posted April 1, 2010 Previous posters who have cited the pheasant as a first class sprinter are spot on. Anyone who has prepared pheasants or pigeon for the table will be aware that pheasant legs have dark meat = working muscle, pigeon breasts have dark meat= working muscle. A pheasant can be pretty nippy on the wing curving and curling in a wind , but incapable of the rapid change of direction of a woody when you blink from behind a face mask in the shade of a peaked cap. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millrace Posted April 1, 2010 Report Share Posted April 1, 2010 (edited) Previous posters who have cited the pheasant as a first class sprinter are spot on. Anyone who has prepared pheasants or pigeon for the table will be aware that pheasant legs have dark meat = working muscle, pigeon breasts have dark meat= working muscle. A pheasant can be pretty nippy on the wing curving and curling in a wind , but incapable of the rapid change of direction of a woody when you blink from behind a face mask in the shade of a peaked cap. Blackpowder ok wasnt intending to copy that.....lol was intending to say that a pheasant has just enough energy to beat its wings for 8 seconds continuesly ....if u watch them as they fly they glide a lot.... useless bit of info Edited April 1, 2010 by millrace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbox Posted April 1, 2010 Report Share Posted April 1, 2010 If you hit them clean, they both fall at the same speed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WGD Posted April 2, 2010 Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 i would of said pigeon,however i was surprised to find that partridge fly slower than pheasent's(i'm sure i read it somewhere ) Correct, pheasant are faster flyers than partridge but the partridge beats its wings faster so gives the illusion of flying faster than it actually is. I know all this, it doesn't help in the slightest when I raise my gun to any of these birds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WGD Posted April 2, 2010 Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 If you hit them clean, they both fall at the same speed Nope, a pheasant is heavier so it's terminal velocity (max speed it reaches under it's own weight when being pulled by gravity) is higher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groach1234 Posted April 2, 2010 Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 Correct, pheasant are faster flyers than partridge but the partridge beats its wings faster so gives the illusion of flying faster than it actually is. I know all this, it doesn't help in the slightest when I raise my gun to any of these birds Also as partridge often fly lower so are closer and so they appear to be moving faster for example a car going 50mph 5 foot from you it would seem far faster than one half a kilometre away doing 70mph Nope, a pheasant is heavier so it's terminal velocity (max speed it reaches under it's own weight when being pulled by gravity) is higher. dittoed however if we were in a vacuum... George Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted April 2, 2010 Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 The fastest i have actually recorded a pigeon doing is 88MPH down the A38 88MPH It started the speedy flight at Branston Flyover and finished at the Barton turn off, (approx 4 miles) after this extremley gallant effort to break the world record pigeon speed flight single handed, it released itself from my passenger side windscreen wiper, and flew off back to have another go i presume Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbox Posted April 2, 2010 Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 Nope, a pheasant is heavier so it's terminal velocity (max speed it reaches under it's own weight when being pulled by gravity) is higher. Now I could be wrong, and baring a 'Science Abuse' style field test I might never be able to prove otherwise, but I thought so long as the relative density of both objects were the same - Ie the weight of the object relative to its cross-section area were the same (which I would have thought a pigeon and a pheasant would be - give or take!), then their terminal velocity would be the same. Hmm. I’m actually boring myself now... Soz all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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