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Re: Re: come on guys
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Originally posted by K. Singletary
It is simple but it is not practical. When shining a tree cast members maybe spread out 50, 60, 70 or more yards apart, with 3 dogs leashed barking. It is hard to communicate in this situation. In other scoring cases, the cast is to remain together and are normally standing side by side.
This was a thought of mine on the original question as well. A well run cast has everyone within easy talking distance as they walk in to a tree. But often folks are spread out over 15-20 yards, no matter how hard you try to keep a cast together someone is lagging behind trying to hear their dog that is split, or get there quickly in case of fighting at the tree.
But once you start shining a tree, as you state, folks get pretty sprawled out. In the case of a huge tree on a fence row between 2 cornfields, a dog may come in and start barking and a cast member that has backed way off to shine, or the judge, may not hear what others hear. If the handler of dog d is under the tree and his dog comes in, even if he yells the judge might not clearly hear him. Should he handle his dog? If he finds the judge 50 yards back in the field and tells him his dog is struck, judge says "handle him then" and by the time he gets back through the corn to the tree the dog may be gone.
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