Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Spring Creek N.C.
Posts: 434

I've always just pleasure hunted and have only had one registered dog in my life. I am looking to get a papered dog and start comp hunting and maybe bench showing....... What are some things i should know and how things work at these shindigs..... i know you go out in four dog casts and get points for stricking treeing and i dunno what else..... or how the points are awarded. What goes on at a bench show? what does my dog and me gotta do? What do i need to know? What are the basic esentials i should know before goin out and lookin like a complete idiot? Thanks, CrossBreed......

__________________
HOME OF
CH "PR" Betsy Gap Sue
"PR" Indian Creek Birdie
"PR" Thunderheart Crickett
"PR" Thunderheart Waylen
Weems and Crockett Bred Plotts

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Mar 2009
Location: western pennsylvania
Posts: 142

Get yourself a copy of the Official UKC rulebook, and STUDY!! ALOT!! Not only will you have a better understanding of how night hunts work, other hunters will not be able to take advantage of a guy that doesnt know the rules! There are alot of good people in this sport, and there are also so low down dirty CROOKS, too. Just study that rule book, and be prepared!

__________________
Just in it for the fun of it!!!!


Mercer County Coonhunters Association, Greenville, PA 16125

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Apr 2010
Location: Jake Prairie, MO
Posts: 757

Here's a link to the rules for UKC nite hunts. Read them thoroughly several times, then come back with questions on the rules that you don't understand. We love rules questions on here!

http://www.ukcdogs.com/WebSite.nsf/...0092010OFFICIAL

Give me a call if you want. I'll help you wherever I can.

Josh Brown
573-885-1022
573-205-1391

__________________
As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua 24:15

Josh Brown
The Barber Shop
Cuba, MO
573-205-1391

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Aug 2010
Location: NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
Posts: 907

quote:

---

Originally posted by CrossbreedCur
I've always just pleasure hunted and have only had one registered dog in my life. I am looking to get a papered dog and start comp hunting and maybe bench showing....... What are some things i should know and how things work at these shindigs..... i know you go out in four dog casts and get points for stricking treeing and i dunno what else..... or how the points are awarded. What goes on at a bench show? what does my dog and me gotta do? What do i need to know? What are the basic esentials i should know before goin out and lookin like a complete idiot? Thanks, CrossBreed......

---

__________________
MERLE COBLENTZ
937-313-2880 CELL
CALL TEXT VOXER
HOME OF GOODTIME KENNEL
WHERE WE SHOW ON THE HARDWOOD

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: May 2008
Location: West Central, Ohio
Posts: 443

Best thing to do is look up where the next hunt is in your area and go spectate with a handler. there is usually a bench show before the hunt that you can watch and ask questions also.

__________________
Silver Creek Kennels
Chad Newland
West Central, Ohio
937-407-0128


Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein~

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ~Josh Billings~

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Spring Creek N.C.
Posts: 434

Thanks alot yall. ill do what yall suggested...... who knows if i wind up with a top stud dog maybe ill let yall breed for free lol

__________________
HOME OF
CH "PR" Betsy Gap Sue
"PR" Indian Creek Birdie
"PR" Thunderheart Crickett
"PR" Thunderheart Waylen
Weems and Crockett Bred Plotts

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Dec 2006
Location: Springfield, Ga.
Posts: 4254

learn the rules, and have a dog that is treeing and staying put. The rest will come, and its like riding a bike, you will not learn how, until you try, and when you fall, get up and try again. Most of time it is a very enjoyable time, and you'll make many many new friends along the way.

__________________
Robert " Rock" Johnson

Johnson Creek Kennels
home of:
UKC Grand Nite Champion "PR" Yadkin River Addkis. Deceased 12/11/2016 RIP

2009/2010/2011/2012 AKC GA. State Leader and Supreme Grand Nite Champion Yadkin River Addkis

2010 ACHA Georgia State Champion Grand Nite Champion Yadkin River Addkis

PKC Champion Yadkin River Addkis

Bright Eye Lights


Treeing Walkers

912-663-5287 cell (perfered)

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jul 2008
Location: north cental,mo.
Posts: 605

Check out the local clubs in your area,then join one . Then spectate on at least a half a dozen hunts ,Then if you are still excited about it you can then start paying for your lessons!!

__________________
Al Brobst
po box 71
Wheeling,Mo 64688
Home of:
Red Eagle Chief

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Spring Creek N.C.
Posts: 434

quote:

---

Originally posted by jabrown
Here's a link to the rules for UKC nite hunts. Read them thoroughly several times, then come back with questions on the rules that you don't understand. We love rules questions on here!

http://www.ukcdogs.com/WebSite.nsf/...0092010OFFICIAL

---

__________________
HOME OF
CH "PR" Betsy Gap Sue
"PR" Indian Creek Birdie
"PR" Thunderheart Crickett
"PR" Thunderheart Waylen
Weems and Crockett Bred Plotts

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Spring Creek N.C.
Posts: 434

or rather how many UKC points and how are they awarded?

__________________
HOME OF
CH "PR" Betsy Gap Sue
"PR" Indian Creek Birdie
"PR" Thunderheart Crickett
"PR" Thunderheart Waylen
Weems and Crockett Bred Plotts

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Apr 2010
Location: Jake Prairie, MO
Posts: 757

quote:

---

Originally posted by CrossbreedCur
or rather how many UKC points and how are they awarded?

---

__________________
As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua 24:15

Josh Brown
The Barber Shop
Cuba, MO
573-205-1391

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Cental Texas
Posts: 653

CrossbreedCur,
Those rules are very, very, very important. Learn them. Know every word and what each rule means. Know how each rule can be applied.
I understand that it is very confusing right now, but if you want to get into the compitition part of our sport, you have to know the rules. It will start making sense to you once you have been a spectator on 5 or 6 casts, IF YOU STUDY< STUDY< AND STUDY those rules. More people get mad and/or quite comptitition hunting because they think they have been 'CHEATED'. when in most cases they did not know the rules well enough

Here are the 4 things you must have:
1. A good working knowledge of the rules,
2. A club or an individual willing to help the 'newbe',
3. A dog that is capable of winning, and
4. Thick skin and the fortitude to stay with it.

__________________
Allbluez51@aol.com
Gone, But not forgotten!
Ch Gr Nite Ch Nolan Creek Go-Yonder Rowdy (Grandson of Spare Time Spanky)
Gr Ch Nt Ch Nolan Creek Chief's Pride (Grandson and greatgrandson to Smokey River Chief)
Dual Ch Nolan Creek Thundering Apache
Nite Ch Gr Ch Nolan Creek Blue Sable
Dual Ch Nolan Crk Diamond HTX2

Still Standing Proud!!
Gr Ch Nt Ch Nolan Creek Chug-A-Lug
Gr CH Nolan Creek Pride's Joy
Ch Nolan Creek Lonesome Dove

Nolan Creek Blue Chug-A-Lug Jr HTX
Ch Nolan Creek Blue Kara
Newest: Ch Nolan Creek Hammering Spanky (Hammer XIII X Sady Lady)

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Spring Creek N.C.
Posts: 434

Thanks that info helps alot. Anything else anybody wants to tell ????????

__________________
HOME OF
CH "PR" Betsy Gap Sue
"PR" Indian Creek Birdie
"PR" Thunderheart Crickett
"PR" Thunderheart Waylen
Weems and Crockett Bred Plotts

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged