Dan Dogs
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quote: Originally posted by brogy
Jay,
I often wonder if part of that attitude towards taking minus is due to so many people when trying to recruit new hunters to the sport of competition tell them " All you need to know is how to strike and tree your dog, after that the rules are on the back of the card"
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Then young Johnny Hideslayer loads up his young started dog and goes to a hunt, although he's never seen a scorecard or read any rules.
Now maybe the first time he draws out with some older local fella Honest Bill as judge and the kid's dog strike and trees coons with everything else and does okay. Honest Bill cuts young Johnny a bunch of breaks when his dog quits a track and comes in because he isn't used to hunting with strange dogs, and when his dog meets him 250 yards off the tree "because he was at the tree when we got there".
Ol' Honest Bill doesn't want to put in on young Johnny too much or he might not come back. Heck, with a little beginner's luck maybe young Johnny even wins the cast and back at the clubhouse all the guys give him a bunch of "atta boy's " and "Boy, you must have one nice young dog". Young Johnny Hideslayer goes home feeling pretty good about this nite hunting thing.
Now next weekend he loads up and heads to another nite hunt. This time he draws Jimmy "Just Won Walker Days" Prohunter. Dogs are cut loose and Jimmy punches his stopwatch. Johnny wonders why but not enough to ask. A dog babbles and Johnny gets excited and strikes his dog. Not your dog says the Judge. Johnny sure thinks it is but didn't think another dog could possibly sound like his loud superstar. "Minute is up" says Judge. Minute? What minute? thinks Johnny. This time Johnny's dog is barking for sure out in front of the cast. "3 barks after the minute, I'm gonna have to minus you 100" says the judge. "What the f?" says Johnny. This guy is trying to screw me Johnny thinks to himself.
Johnny strikes his dog. Now dogs open up behind the cast running a good track. Johnny's young dog comes into the cast, stops, perks his ears up, lifts his leg and with an under his breath "Git" from Johnny the young dog busts into the dark to get in with the pack. "I'm gonna have to minus you again for your doing coming into the cast and quitting his track" says the Judge. "What?!?!?" My dog didn't quit, he just passed through... He hardly even stopped!" hollers Johnny. "Rules are rules' says the Judge. Now Johnny is steaming and extermely frustrated. "Well then tree my dog!", "Sorry son, you haven't restruck him yet" says the judge. "Well you son of a cotton picking gosh darn $#!@*, Strike and tree him".
"Are you sure you wanna do that?" asks the judge.
"Of course, I wanna do that. Y'all are trying to screw me and get me out of this cast 'cause you heard I'm packin' a sho' nuff' Coondog" exclaims Johnny.
"Alright son, calm down. We're just gonna play by the rules. If you have a question, I'm sure we can help you out" responds the judge.
Now young Johnny is steaming mad.
All dogs get treed although deeper and casts heads that way as the 5 is nearly up. Judge tells the cast to stop moving and says "5 is almost up. 5,4,3,2..- Trees closed". Dog A is minused 125 because he is clearly still moving".
"What!?!?!? Well fine. I'm just gonna get my dog and go home if y'all are gonna cheat me like that!" Johnny storms off hollering at his dog to come in. Cast shakes they're heads and heads to the tree. Tree is scored and casts calls timeout as young Johnny is wandering all over the woods and cornfields screaming and cursing trying to catch his dog.
Cast gets the truck and Judge Jimmy "Just won Walker Days" Prohunter says, I'll go help this kid catch his dog so we don't leave him out here and then we'll continue the hunt.
Jimmy wanders off into the dark and meets young Johnny with dog on lead headed back to the road. "Catch your dog?" asks the judge. "Of course I got my dog, he was in there and gonna tree that coon if I hadn't run him down and caught him". Not another word is said on the way to the truck. Young Johnny throws his dog in his truck, slams the door and spins gravel on his way out.
Young Johnny is never seen at a hunt again. You run into him at the gas station next fall and ask him where has he been. "He says I ain't going to no competition hunts. Them guys are nothin' but a bunch of cheats. I've already got 100 coon with my dog this fall. I don't need know stupid trophy or title to show me he's a coon dog."
Sound familiar to anyone?
If everyone would take time to mentor new hunters and invite them to spectate on a few casts, invite them pleasure hunting and teach the rules while pleasure hunting and then use good by the book judges this would eliminate 95% of the problems in the hunts today.
i'm sorry thats what happened to you marc, come on down and i'll take you hunting and explain a few things to ya!!! no wonder your so upset all the time!!!LMAO
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