Oak Ridge
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Location: Indiana
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Originally posted by yadkintar
Joe what we have here is a failure to communicate lol. We are now dealing with the bling , bling factore with ukc you hunt 2 hrs you don't have plus points your out you have two other organizations that you ( could) win a lot of money without treeing a coon you can't minuse out if you got 800 minuse and everybody has more your still the winner who ever came up with that was brilliant they are getting rich off of it because they give you several ways to win there is always a winner. Now we remember when you filled with cast winners first and filled out through tenth place with non cast winners with plus points it gave people a chance to win somthing numbers were huge I said it before but it's fell on deaf ears that hurt the clubs more than anything else. As far as some of the breed members that voted I was not confratable of who they were and if their intentions were genuine jmo.
I hear you LOUD AND CLEAR.
But let's look at history. My first UKC Wild Coon hunt had 109 registered dogs, and they also held a "grade" hunt at that club that night. I tell you that to illustrate that I'm a fat old man that has "been there, done that".
That first hunt that I was in was a three hour hunt, and still had the 400 minus rule, and it separated the good dogs from the mediocre ones. I myself have often questioned the "minus out" rule, but I also remember the days when making a dog a Nite Champion was a rarity and not a given assumption if you attended enough hunts.
So what changed? I believe WE changed. As the popularity of the UKC model grew, more clubs sprung up. Clubs could survive and flourish, buy ground, build buildings and maintain themselves on the earnings from the UKC hunts. Then more clubs meant more hunts.....since there were more hunts, the entries were divided and the number of dogs at any one club went down. The same number of dogs were entered in more hunts.
Then "the others" started sanctioning hunts for money on every night of the week except Sunday. We further divided our entry numbers, because if you hunted for "bling" on Monday and Thursday evening, you were less likely to hunt on Saturday night for a trophy and a win slip. The trade off is that the club didn't make money on those hunts, so they continue to hold the UKC hunts that started the club, and are indeed the life blood of those clubs.
Now we expect a pot of gold at the end of the cast at UKC hunts...but you know where that pot of gold comes from? From the clubs. When that club has a slam event the club gives back to the entrants, who most likely are not even club members any more, because it is not fashionable to be a club member.
In the next couple of week we are going to have Cur days in Northern Indiana. The club that is hosting that event has gone out of their way to make sure that it is a success....as it should be. They raised a thousand dollars ($1,000) to give away as an "added purse" which is well withing UKC rules. Every coon hunting club in the country has the same option to do just that to build entries, and attract people to the event. UKC didn't do that, the club did.....
My point is that we, and I include myself in that we, are quick to blame UKC for a lot of things, when in reality we are the answer to the problem. If we roll up our sleeves and put forth the effort to find the answers, they are already there...we just don't take advantage of them.
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