Cowboyred
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Registered: May 2010
Location: South Dakota
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Being a hunting judge does not give you an advantage if you are honest and apply the rules to the best of your ability. In fact, I would consider it a bit of a disadvantage because you can't pay full attention to your own dog. Recording scores, keeping time, keeping track of where dogs are called treed to make sure they don't/haven't moved, answering cast member questions....all of these things as well as many others interfere with concentrating on your own dog. How many times have you been handed the score card and have 2-3 other cast members who have only been in a handful of hunts? Instead of focusing on hunting you end up being an instructor, or you spend alot of time justifying your calls because some novice doesn't understand the correct way versus the way they've seen it done somewhere else, or they get confused about which KC rules are in use.
I think that hunting judges may win many casts, but probably, in general, it's because of experience. They know the rules and their application better, they probably have been at it long enough to understand what kind of dog it takes to be competitive. The judge may not always have the best dog in the cast, but they usually don't have the worst one either.
Just my 3 cents worth (increase due to inflation and high gas prices).
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