longshot
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Location: Southwest Missouri
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I brought it up a few months ago and didn't seen to get much responce and the little I did get didn't agree with me. lol (nothing new there lol )
Anyway , I believe in keeping it simple... I'd do away with rule 7 and ALWAYS strike in for next available position. That keeps it simple for a judge to score in all circumstances.
I know some people will say its not fair for a dog to carry first strike all night , but the way I look at it is ,,, if he is carrying strike and not getting treed , he ain't hurting me if we're treeing coons all around him and scoreing them.
I'd bet most judges don't even know how to apply rule 7 in the correct manner anyway. Plus the way it is written up now , the first dog that trees a coon is punished compared to the second dog that trees a coon. It is screwed up in my opinion and badly needs changed and simplified.
The circumstances are rare that cause rule 7 to be used anyway , so I say trash it. I only saw it happen two times all last summer in hunts and both times it was unfair to the dog that treed first. That needs fixed IMO.
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