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Proposal #1- I'm ok with, I prefer hunting under a countdown but I'm disappointed to see UKC possibly adapting this rule. I like that each registry is a bit different.
Proposal #2-OK, with reservations.
Proposal #3- No. Any dog that should accumulate 400- pts should be excused from the cast.
Proposal #4-No. If a dog is declared treed at the end of a hunt, that tree should be scored accordingly. If they ball up and fight, or tree a grinner, they should be scratched... I don't care if they are sitting with 1500+.
Proposal #5-Yes. Yes. Yes.
Proposal #6-No. For the same reasons as #4.
Proposal #7-Ok, but I still haven't found UKC give an official interpretation when 1 dog has met the non-working dog criteria, yet 1 dog carrying strike hasn't, and another dog has scored on 2 coon. I don't see that this proposal is fixing anything.
Proposal #8- Ok, same as #7.
Proposal #9- Don't care
Proposal #10- Don't care
Proposal #11- Still needs clarification.
Proposal #12-Don't care
Proposal #13- Don't care
Regarding the non-working dog rule, If Dogs A,B,C,&D are struck in that order. Dogs B,C,&D are declared treed and trees is plussed. Dogs B, C, & D are recast and restruck in the same order. Dogs B &C are treed and tree is plussed. I still haven't heard UKC give an official answer whether Dogs B&C are eligible to go in for 100 when restruck. They've met the non-working dog rule over Dog A, but not over Dog D. 2 current rules contradict each other and I don't see how these proposals have addressed that. I believe TK and AG have both given different interpretations on this. Maybe I'm missing something.
Regarding authority of the judge, I don't have a problem changing it because a good majority of folks aren't enforcing it as it should be. I've heard of more than one cast where a dog treed off-game or was caught fighting after the hunt time expired, and no one did anything about it. But I feel if a dog is declared treed prior to the hunt expiring, that dog should be subject to anything within the rules for scoring the tree. Does this mean if someone trees they're dog at the end of the hunt, and it moves it can't be minused because the hunt is over? Why should dogs fighting on the last tree of the night not be scratched simply because hunt time is up? Over the years, all I've ever heard for an interpretation is "if a dog can't be plussed, it can't be minused". Now this basically says if a dog is treed within hunt time, tree is to be scored if it has a raccoon, but everything else is deleted because the hunt is over? Again am I missing something?
Regarding Proposal 11, in a nitehunt I typically turn my phone on silent. Sometimes I may use it to check the actual time and to record time-in and time-out. Under this proposal, does this mean if my buddy back home (not participating in the event) texts me and asks "how'd your hunt go" during hunt time, even if I don't respond, I could be scratched? Or if my buddy hunting the other side of town leaves me a voicemail and asks "Did you hunt Johnson's pasture yet tonight?" and I check that during a timeout I could be scratched? I see nothing wrong with the current cell phone rule regarding in relation to scores. That is pretty easy to interpret.
I don't have a problem with UKC's rules as the are. I have a huge problem that they are so poorly clarified and interpreted. I also have a problem that many times it falls back to the interpretation of the Advisor with the majority of today's nitehunt participants have never seen nor do they have access to.
I don't see how any of these rule proposals are addressing the real issue.
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