John D
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Missouri
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quote: Originally posted by JiM
You score it however the judge decides to before the first light goes up.
I've heard and used this before, but won't anymore. You can't tell how trees are tied together until you look up. I don't recall anything in the rules saying that the decision has to be made before looking up.
At Autumn Oaks this past year this cost me a cast win. I had 1st tree and when we get there my dog was on one tree and 2 others on a tree 50 ft. away and the 4th milling around. We all agreed to call it split and when we looked up, my dog was on a big dead tree with one good solid limb going up and out into the top of the tree they were treed on and there were 2 coons setting there. In my mind, coons probably climbed both trees and ended up together but of course I had agreed to split and was outvoted on anything at that point.
From now on when I'm carrying the card we're going to shine trees that are close together and only move dogs up when its obvious the trees are split.
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