Lone Pine JB
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Allen Gingerich
Scratch or Minus
Q: In a four dog cast, dogs A, B and C are declared struck. Dog D falls treed and is declared treed without being declared struck by the handler. Is the dog scratched for not being declared struck first?
A: Nowhere on the back of the scorecard or in the rulebook will one find a rule that allows you to scratch a dog that has been declared treed without being declared struck first. Before the last rule change, in most situations, dogs declared treed before being declared struck would end up in the back of the truck almost as quick as the handler could call the dog treed! Not because they were declared treed before being struck but rather, in most situations, because the dog had opened more than three times after the first minute of being released without a strike call from the handler.
A new rule in affect this year 4(j){on first offense failure to strike a dog before the third bark will result in those points being awarded and minused.}would apply in the scenario described above assuming this was the first time in the hunt that dog D had not been declared struck in time.
Dog D would be awarded 25 strike points and they would be minused. (assuming it was first offense) The handler would then need to strike the dog immediately, which may be followed by a tree call. If the handler of dog D was to once again tree the dog before declaring him struck later on in the hunt, it would result in the dog being scratched from the hunt unless he somehow declared the dog struck before the third bark. A dog must always be declared struck first before it may be called treed. If you were to ask any seasoned competition hunters if this had ever happened to them, more than likely the answer would be; yep, once!
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