Brandon Gudgeon
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Apr 2008
Location: Leadmine, Wisconsin
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COMPETITIONS ARE UPON US
Kicked off the competition season last Saturday at my home club's TW Sectional. I wish I had some win pics to post, but it wasn't in the cards. My friend Cody offered to handle a dog for me, which I was very thankful for his offer. He has only hunted with Tramp, so I let him have the leash in Tramp's first ever NtCh cast. Sounds like Tramp did some good things, but also showed he doesn't completely have the dust knocked off yet. He treed a couple coon, and the cast winner treed a couple coon, just when mistakes were made, Tramp was a little easier to get talked into joining in. Now we got dumped on with snow, so it's gonna be a little bit again before the hunting gets good again. Seems to be an annual spring thing here in Wisconsin, and I'm getting used to it. Soon enough I'll be complaining about the heat, so I'll just be patient and keep trying to get dogs hunted.
I handled Speck in her first ever hunt. She is in no way (in my opinion) ready for a hunt, but is much farther along than some that get hunted. She has done some stuff I really liked, and since Cody was willing to hunt Tramp, I entered Speck. She did some things I really liked to see, especially for her experience level. A 2nd and 1st on a woven wire that they couldn't get through cost her the cast win. She had 14 min left to tree a coon for a win. She spent about 5 min trying to figure out why the minused out dog was going ballistic in the box, then went in and finished a track a few minutes after the hunt with a den. She made another tree on a timeout that had a hollow log leaning into the tree she was on. I didn't even try to get a look in there.
Had a lot of fun, and got to be the judge for someone's first ever comp hunt. Tried keeping it laid back and explained things the best I could along the way. He said he'd be back and had a great time. Wins will come, but as long as we're having fun along the way and making and keeping friends, that's what it is all about for me.
I've had the hunting and walleye fishing itch lately, so if anyone wants to do either, get a hold of me!!
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Brandon Gudgeon
Benton, WI
(608)-606-2608
NiteCh 'PR' Beast Mode Tramp
- 1st Runner Up Jr Young Guns 2014 National BBOA Days - 300+
- 9th place (Friday night) 2014 National BBOA Days - 250+
- 1st place opens 2014 WI State BBOA Championship - 837.5+
- UKC 2nd - 100+
- UKC 1st - 225+
- 2015 Zone 3 BBOA Championship King of Hunt
- 2015 Iowa State BBCHA King of Hunt (1st place NtCh)
- 2016 Zone 3 BBOA Championship 1st place NtCh (Fri Night)
R.I.P.
Ch NiteCh 'PR' Gabby's Tree Poundin Bocephus
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