Paul Frederick
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Location: Laurel, IN
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Donald,
Rule 7 in the Official UKC Coonhound Rulebook deals with calling time out. These are the instances when it is appropriate to call time out. The first one says:
"(a) When dogs are getting on highway , trail onto posted land or trail into a place where there is danger to dogs or hunters."
When that condition is met (dogs get on highway, on posted ground, or are in a place of danger) time out may be called if there is a majority of the cast who votes to do so. Whenever timeout is called it has always been that dogs who have strike points pending (struck in but not scored) will have those points deleted (Rule 5(e)), and dogs who have been declared treed prior to calling time out must be scored accordingly (you must score their tree). This is found in Rule 11 (a) "Dogs declared treed within hunting time are eligible for scoring".
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I think the rule you are thinking about is rule 7(f) which deals with a totally different situation. It states:
"If all dogs are declared treed or are on leash time out shall be called after 10 minutes of hunt time has been used walking to each split tree. Time is back in during shining time or if dog leaves tree."
This is talking about calling time out to walk to trees / split trees. The dogs do not have to necessarily be split treed for this to come into effect, but all of them have to be either declared treed or handled. Say, for instance, all 4 dogs are on the same tree a ways away, once the cast uses 10 minutes of hunt time walking to the tree, time out should be called to complete the trip to the tree. You start time back in to score the tree or at any time a dog leaves the tree.
I hope this helps.
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