Registered: Jan 2013
Location: Marietta
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I had to hear on the phone that $7 a dog is a club killer don’t be mad at me I didn’t do it.


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Tar your old enough to know. What's a killer for one generation is a bargain for another. When our gas hit 4 bucks a gallon a few years ago and then started to decline. I saw a young man filling his tank up and looked like he was headed on vacation. I told him I hope he wasn't going far with gas prices like they are. He said he had just started driving and he paid $4 a gallon a month ago. He figured the $3.50 was a bargain. It is all in perspective of where you are at and where you want to get to. While remembering that once upon a time it was better but that fairytale has ended.

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Location: Marietta
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Bruce I remember paying $6 to hunt. What they are saying is good for the hunters but hurting the struggling clubs. Only thing I know is charge $300 at the zone to the ones that’s going. $$$ charged $300 at the world to 1,300 hunters. We will be ok we have no building rent but it puts the clubs up against the wall because they only want to hunt for money and it don’t pay the club in the slams very well.



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The good ole days are long gone forever they are not coming back peroid. Very few if any coon clubs can pay bills with entry fees alone you must have other types of moneymakers such as meat hunts fun raffles etc. to make ends meet

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Lol. Hunts definitely do not pay the bills, clubs must have other ways to make money, I. e. Turkey shoots, raffles, etc. Hunts are a luxury for a club and clubs are lucky if they break even or if the loss is bearable. The days of Hugh crowds are long gone and to survive a club has to be creative in making money. Dave

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A club should only have to raise an entry an extra 5 dollars to cover the rise in UKC fees. If a hunter cant afford an extra 5 dollars for a hunt, then they have larger problems..

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Location: Marietta
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Only problem is they done hung out the bait. The hunters are dead set on hunting for money but the slam format leaves the club holding the bag with hardly nothing left. The hunters are not interested in a old format hunt. It’s common here to just hunt 8 dogs early and 5 dogs late a $25 hunt between the bench and hunt packet and $7 a dog they had $10 left the first round. The second round you split $125 between the hunters and club then the club had to pay $7 a dog which is $35. My club has a $35 double header this weekend I will let you know how it works out.


You have to give the hunters what they want now or they won’t come. Several of us chipped in to that club the other night to make it work several that did will never go to the tournament of champions.


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