Registered: Jun 2014
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 3467

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Originally posted by ronald schultz
nose on the ground
A dog tht meets you off the tree few yards and then goes back to it and trees should not be minused. Even if the dog puts his nose to the ground. Anyone tht has been hunting awhile can tell if he is running track or just going back to the tree. The ones tht wants to minuse the dogs for every little thing like tht, is the reason young people will not go to the hunts anymore. J.M.O


Hope the experienced hunter is proud as heck !!

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Registered: Feb 2015
Location: Ohio
Posts: 572

If a dog stays treed for the five and comes to greet it's handler and goes back and resumes treeing. Give that dog the benefit of the doubt. HE IS TREED. It shouldn't matter if he retraces his steps back to the tree with his nose down or does back flips. HE IS TREED. If he has the meat PLUS HIM UP. If he doesn't MINUS HIM. Come on guys. This is the easiest way to minus a coon dog and that's why the folks that minus a dog for it use it. PERIOD.

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: NE south dakota
Posts: 260

If a dog comes off the tree a little ways and goes right back to the tree, he can do cart wheels on his way back and shows tree he should be given plus points if the coon is there. There is no rule about him putting his nose down on the ground on the way back, that is like the famous under the canopy of the tree trick, just another myth some cheats use to their advantage!!!! Gene Parrow

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Registered: Dec 2013
Location: WV
Posts: 394

My uncle used to get minused for this all the time. He couldn't break her from it. He would tell them before the hunt that she would do it and everyone agreed it was no big deal. They wouldn't minus her the first time or two but after she got to winning the hunt then they would start to minus her. She was a coondog and I never seen her lose a hunt as far as putting coon up a tree but I never seen her place either because they would always minus her after she was winning. Just another reason why papers and titles don't make them coondogs.

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Registered: Mar 2015
Location: mid-mo
Posts: 87

If it was questioned and the boy was not satisfied with the judges call, he should have questioned that minus and tokk it back to the master of hounds, if there were any witnesses there on his side they could tell there stories as well.
Or should have been a cast vote?

Dont know wasnt there!

My guess the 17 yr old boy had a Coondawg and was beating the judges dog and the judge was going to do anything in his power to get ahead of his competitor! Seen the dogs nose on the ground and he took his advantage of getting ahead.

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