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Originally posted by Hoosier Man1
When is walking it off acceptable? In this situation is was 20 minutes, next thing you know it will be 30.

The rule says 120 minutes must be completed to valitade a dogs score. I can see walking off a minute or 2 but other then that your simple breaking the rules.

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You can't walk it off with 20 left. Read the rules.

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Several years ago I was in a cast at walker days it was a cast of good Dogs. there was a spectator looking at buying one of the dogs in the cast this spectator was well known in the coon hunting world. Very early in the hunt he said 3 of u need to get out so the other can win the whole thing. I think 99% of us know that's not right. It bothered me

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rules a put in place for a reason. if you can use them to your advantage like stated above( only striking on the 3rd bark, letting them put the stationary on etc..) go for it but don't break the rules.
that is why all competition hunts get a bad rap. the same person who says breaking one rule is fine in one situation will be the first to complain with another guy wanting to break rule for his advantage next time.
comp hunts are made to be uniform in nature.. keep them that way.

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Originally posted by gacoonchaser
And no ones ever done that before? I bet you're in quality control at your job. You must've never walked mountains all night.

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Absolutely! Those mountains excuse all kinds of things. They should change rule #1 to say anyone hunting in mountains is free to ignore any rule that is just to tough for a mountain man to follow since that is what they are doing anyway.

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I tried to find the rule in my rulebook that states how long you can walk with your dog on the leash and not call time out. Can someone tell me where to find it. How far/long can you walk off of a tree before you have to turn your dog loose? Where does it say that you have to call time out if you are traveling from one spot to another? I think that there use to be a rule that if it wasn't going to take more than 15 min, you could not call time out but that rule seems to have disappeared. Are y'all making up a rule that says you can't walk 20 minutes with your dog on the leash or is it actually "in the book"?

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Under section 7. Time Outs, it reads:

(f) If all dogs are declared treed or are on leash time out shall be called after 10 minutes of hunt time has been used walking to each split tree. Time is back in during shining time or if dog leaves tree.

BUT there is also a section under section 6. Scratching Offenses, that probably wasn't intended for this purpose, but I would argue is applicable:

(c) Failing to make an attempt to hunt within any 15 consecutive scorecard minutes.

So we're supposed to hunt for a given amount of time, like 120 minutes. And if we haven't called time out, cause "we're walking out the clock" then we are within scorecard minutes, and if we're just walking our dogs on a leash, then one might argue nobody (dog or handler) is making an attempt to hunt!

Here's the deal... we're supposed to see what our dogs are capable of doing during a given period of hunting time, meaning the earning of plus and minus points. It's not up to us, to decide when we've achieved a satisfactory amount of plus points! If you have 10 minutes, 20 minutes, etc. then your dog has the potential to earn minus, and you have to give them that opportunity to be fair to all the other casts that hunted the full time.

Now we are also supposed to use our judgement, and if it would take longer for the dogs to get across a field or for us to walk to a new hunting area away form the current tree, than we have on the clock. Then run those couple minutes out, while you're walking to that new "hunting area". But c'mon, 10 minutes, 20 minutes a lot can happen in that amount of time.

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Under section 7. Time Outs, it reads:

(f) probably wasn't intended for this purpose......I would argue is....

(c) ....So we're supposed to..... one might argue......

..... we're supposed to.......

.....we are also supposed to......

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But y'all are saying that there is a rule. Where is it? I agree, there are a lot of "I would argues" and "supposed to's" and "common sense" used in a night hunt. But everyones "supposed to" and "common sense" is different. That is why there are very specific rules. And a lot of times people say, "the rules say" when actually the "rules" don't say that at all.

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Richard,

You did a pretty good job of quoting my commentary, but you left out the rule. It's pretty simple. There's a scratching offense defined as...

(c) Failing to make an attempt to hunt within any 15 consecutive scorecard minutes.

SO if the clock is running, because the hunt time has not expired, your dog better be hunting.

With regards to any other ruling, I would venture a bet it's in the Advisor. But at the same time, when the Hunt Director or the MOH says, "This is a 2 hour hunt." it seems pretty clear that you should hunt for 2 hours. Are you looking for a rule, that says, "we really mean it" ?

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Originally posted by joey
I will withdraw in a hart beat if I know I cant win. Most of the time it is in the last few minutes of a cast. Just handled the dogs off of a tree, mine is on the leash and I cant win with 10 minutes left. I'm not turning loose just to catch my dog a hour later and a mile deeper. I have never did it to get out of someones way, I have done it to save me some grief.

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Several years ago I was in a cast at walker days it was a cast of good Dogs. there was a spectator looking at buying one of the dogs in the cast this spectator was well known in the coon hunting world. Very early in the hunt he said 3 of u need to get out so the other can win the whole thing. I think 99% of us know that's not right. It bothered me

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I never have understood why someone stays in with no remote chance of winning. I won't

I also don't understand why if you make a first tree and dog backs you. You get done shining and ready to roll because you can tell other dogs are getting ready to get treed and you gonna be leash locked if you keep setting on that tree hoping for a bird to fly over and drop a coon in the tree and the other handler keeps shining.

Most don't know what that clock is and when you need to be cut and when you need to remain treed.

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Richard,

You did a pretty good job of quoting my commentary, but you left out the rule. It's pretty simple. There's a scratching offense defined as...

(c) Failing to make an attempt to hunt within any 15 consecutive scorecard minutes.

SO if the clock is running, because the hunt time has not expired, your dog better be hunting.

With regards to any other ruling, I would venture a bet it's in the Advisor. But at the same time, when the Hunt Director or the MOH says, "This is a 2 hour hunt." it seems pretty clear that you should hunt for 2 hours. Are you looking for a rule, that says, "we really mean it" ?

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rules a put in place for a reason. if you can use them to your advantage like stated above( only striking on the 3rd bark, letting them put the stationary on etc..) go for it but don't break the rules.
that is why all competition hunts get a bad rap. the same person who says breaking one rule is fine in one situation will be the first to complain with another guy wanting to break rule for his advantage next time.
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As for this question of "walking it out", rule 7(f) stated that if all dogs are treed OR ALL DOGS ARE ON LEASH, timeout SHALL be called after 10 minutes walking time. So, technically, you could "walk off" up to 10 minutes of running clock time.
It should be noted that if a dog is struck and loose, you MUST cast your dog when the 8 is broke unless a dog(s) is declared treed. So after scoring a tree, how long that dog(s) is on leash is totally controlled by how long it takes to break the 8. If the 8 is broke 6 steps from the tree, you must recast 6 steps from the tree.

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you MUST cast your dog when the 8 is broke unless a dog(s) is declared treed......If the 8 is broke 6 steps from the tree, you must recast 6 steps from the tree.

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Oh my goodness...I always thought that you didn't start the eight until all handlers had walked far enough away from the tree that they were comfortable with cutting their dogs loose? And, I think, the question of "walking out" only pertains to all dogs being on the leash.

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Where did you get that Richard? I can't find anything in the rules that support that. I think you start the 8 when the tree is scored.

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What are we talking about? Everybody that's been on a competition hunt knows you can't walk out 20 minutes. And you can't BEND a rule. You either follow them or break them.

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Where did you get that Richard? I can't find anything in the rules that support that. I think you start the 8 when the tree is scored.

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That rule only applies to dogs that are loose, it cannot be applied to a dog that is on leash. So that rule does not apply to this question in any way.

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Another reason for withdrawing. I am not talking about a small hunt here but more and more and especially in other registries the results are posted for all to see. Many of the handlers now a days are paid. It is easier to withdraw and have a WD placed on the computer for all to see than a large score of minus points.

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I think you start the 8 when the tree is scored.

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So, do you start the eight as soon as the tree is scored and then walk away from it? Or do you walk away and then start the eight. What if the dog out on strike is way deep and you don't hear him/her while you are walking? I have been in several hunts and I have never seen anyone start the eight as soon as the tree is scored. Where in the rules do you see that? I also always thought that you walked to the last place you heard the dog before you started the eight. I am really getting confused now. I couldn't find any of this in the "rules" that everyone is so upset about "breaking". It really sounds to me like it is a matter of personal opinion.

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I agree that, that's how I've always applied it, and probably the normal use of the rule, BUT where does it say that it only applies to dogs that are loose? It does say ANY 15 consecutive scorecard minutes...

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Where did you get that Richard? I can't find anything in the rules that support that. I think you start the 8 when the tree is scored.

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Rebecca nailed it, not sure how I missed it, when I did a search for "time"!

Rule 6 Scratching Offenses
(I) For hunting over or under the advertised hunt time.

That's pretty black and white!

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