My dad and his brother kept pigeons for my grandfather in the early 1900s. Granddad ran a saloon and a pigeon ring. His shooting pigeons were homers according to my dad. Single barrel shoots at long yardage coupled with well lubricated shooters apparently allowed some pigeons to be trapped more than once. I don't think that my dad or my grandfather ever competed in pigeon racing. A friend of my dad's when I was a preteen kept a loft of pigeons. However, he also kept hawks. I assume the pigeons were used to train the hawks, but I never witnessed that. He would perch the hawks on the back of the front seat of his 1952 Ford Victoria.
