MikeR
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Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Maryland
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quote: Originally posted by River Birch Run
As I read the artical in the bloodlines I went through several emotions. 1st shaking my head thinking you have got to be kidding me and half laughing. Then the thought of it is obvious that this person has not been to many hunts, and has no clue. To down rite anger. I myself have hunted in 8 differnt states in Big hunts in all the KC's. I have done my fair share of winning and loosing. I hunt 5 to 6 nites a week all yr round. When I choose to enter a hunt you can bet my hound is ready. Yes dogs will be dogs and sometimes it dosen't matter how long you have worked to get ready for a hunt they can do some things at the wrong time that ruin a hunt for you and maybe even the whole cast. However, I would much rather take the chance that all my training before the hunt will payoff. Why in the world would I be in favor of some person being allowed to shock his dog after treeing a possum. I do use a e-collar to train my dogs and mine is split with the coon and hears yours screaming yes they will come into me. So I take minus the same as the grinner treer. Like was stated above, shock a dog getting ill on the tree and see how bad of a dog fight you have then. Use the garmin to see who struck which dog? What about the people who don't have a garmin and collar. Guess you can't even enter a hunt now unless you have one rite? Or is it going to be the clubs responsability to have plenty of them laying around for all hunters enterd. As for using the young man that died last yr at a hunt. What right did you have to bring that up. It would have not changed a D!@# thing. You were not there you have no clue what happened that nite. He DID NOT have his dog with him. YOU should have gotten the facts from someone that was there before you ran your mouth. I was truely disapointed with UKC even printing that portion of the artical.
If you truly hunt your dogs they way they should be you know there every bark. You know when there in the ground, on a fence, at water. in thick terrine, treed slick, or treeing off game or running junk. By using my garmin for training yes I have pick these things up quicker than ever. But there is a time and place for it. A comp, nite hunt is NOT the time or place. Allowing this in the hunts is only going to help the lazy part time hunter and take away from the the true houndmen and wemen that have put the real work into already knowing what there dog is doing w/o the aid of the garmin.
AMEN!!!!
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