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Tom Hatcher books
By: ebrockman Date: April 12, 2013, 10:39 am
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Can anyone remark about the two Hatcher books "Keys To Flying
Competition Rollers" or "Last Of The Greats And Beyond" ?
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Re: Tom Hatcher books
By: birdman Date: April 12, 2013, 6:07 pm
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I'll give you my .02 for what it's worth.
Anyone with a copy machine could have done the same thing and
called them books.
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Re: Tom Hatcher books
By: Chuck K Date: April 12, 2013, 7:46 pm
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I own a copy of "The Last of the Greats and the Next
Generation". I might have read it a couple of times over the
years. By contrast I also own " The Birmingham Roller Pigeon"
by Bill Pensom, and "True Spinning Rollers" by David Kowalski,
and these two books see some use every three months.
It has been a long time since I even picked up the Hatcher book
until I got it out seeing your post. I think maybe the reason I
never gave the book much attention was due to the fact that a
couple of months after I got the book I saw some birds at an
auction that were supposed to be 'Continentals'. They weren't
the small to medium birds described in the book. The guy that
had them was trying to get people to take them with the caveat
that they were great birds for the west Texas wind. The birds
were large, and that just wasn't my cup of tea.
As far as quality, the book is about like a lot of pigeon books
I have seen, and it has some nice pictures in it. It has a lot
of good history in it, and the writing style is good. There are
just not that many books on rollers available, and I don't find
having one more to be a concern for me. The more I can collect
the better.
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Re: Tom Hatcher books
By: ebrockman Date: April 13, 2013, 11:24 am
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Thanks to those that have responded to my inquiry. I have read
the Pensom book and David Kowalsk's True Spinning Rollers II and
am looking for something that goes beyond them. It does not
seem that these books do? I am just switching to rollers after
having had racing pigeons for 20+ years and find it much more
difficult to find literature related to the rollers.
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Re: Tom Hatcher books
By: nephilim Date: April 16, 2013, 7:17 pm
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Hey.
I got the Tom Hatcher for a few bucks from Jedds. It took
for ever to turn up! When it did, I thought it a bit of a let
down. Nothing special a cheap put together book. But I
understand what you mean. I used to keep the racers.Mainly
Kirkpatrick and Vandies. I like the lomg distance races. Your
right not many good books on rollers. Try the All England Roller
Club website, for a copy of Dexter's Winning with spinners book.
I don't know how long you kept the racers or what races you
where into. But everything you've learnt about raising race
birds has to thrown out the window! You don't want to load the
young with high protein food to build muscle or stamina, you
want light well defined birds! Think Bruce Lee's body not Arnie
Schwartz! I made that mistake, I had 6month old young birds
flying 2+hrs and pinning out they was that high!! I had to use
10x50 binnoculars to find them and watch them, they flew that
high. Hope been Helpful friend
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Re: Tom Hatcher books
By: Arrowslinger Date: April 28, 2013, 10:26 am
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I got caught up in Plona fever once after reading some articles
in the APJ in that reading I found "Last of the greats" simple
historical stuff with some decent photos. I then decided to
write the author to pop a few questions at him about Plona.
After a few letters I decided to buy a pair of the
"Continentals" fly them and see, Tom sent two yearling torts
that both turned out to be cock birds also in the box was a ten
year old hen. Tom sent her saying she was old but did produce
good birds and give her a try.
I flew the two torts both larger than my birds and muffed one
was a flapper in the roll god was he horrible, the other was a
decent 20 foot spinner. The hen produced one fertile egg her
first mating to an odd Reece cock I had and shortly later died.
The youngster was as good as the Reece birds but a coopers hawk
grabbed him off the landing perch.
I was so focused on my other birds and flying that I honestly
had no time to work in the decent tort cock. He was sold to a
younger guy in Georgia that bred from him for years with good
results.
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