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UKC is working on several significant changes relates to nite hunt structure, as well as the Performance Program. At this time details are still being finalized so we are not at liberty to discuss any changes at this time yet.

However, we would like your feedback and thoughts on a specific item related to the Performance Program. Current rules make a permanently nominated dog eligible for its whole life. This is a good deal for the owner but it does also take away from the fund obviously and might help increase point values otherwise.

Should UKC consider putting an age limit on those permanently nominated dogs, and if so, what should that age be? Leave as is? What are your thoughts?

Would it make a difference if those older dogs had some other good incentive to hunt for?

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Looking back at the number of times my dogs have drawn dogs 4 or older, it's so few that I can't believe a 4 year old or older limit would end up making a significant difference. About the only times we draw old dogs is at events that don't pay points anyway. When you do go to a club level event and draw a 4 or 5 year old, it's usually a chiteater that ain't winning nothing anyway. So however you decide this one, I doubt many will notice.

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Need more pr more hype more build up !!



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My thoughts...
Make dogs older than 1yr still eligible to enroll at an increased fee according to age. You could make it where any that have points prior to being paid that those points don't count towards performance $. We just bought back another one that is 13mo old and was not paid up before a year and are out of luck on enrolling him.
My number #1 is include performance enrolling on Application for Permanent Registration aka puppy papers. So many do not send that separate sheet when they sell pups. The current application for permanent registration is confusing for many in the wording in fees by calling the registration a "Performance Pedigree" when it has nothing to do with enrolling in the performance program.I just had to explain over the weekend that paying the fee in step 6 did not pay up the pup that there is a separate sheet you will have to print off because it was not sent with puppy papers.
As for age we seem to have dogs of all ages at our hunts. Some always have a young one they are working on, others seem to be bringing the same one for years to finish or just occasionally hunt in a hunt and some buy un-titled dogs to hunt in hunts. The only Grands seem to be at larger events and RQE's. Maybe race according to age 2 and under, 4 and under and 5 and up with a hunt off between the top points earners for each age group.
If they were cut out at a certain age there would need to be a phase out for the previous enrolled dogs and new enrolled dogs that reach a certain age with some sort of senior incentive program or worthwhile hunt.
Jen

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Y not use a slideing scale to distribute point value to "permanently nominated" dogs for the life of the dog.....peak age imo is 2-4 yrs. dog should be hitting the hunts at those ages ,as it is now once over 4 yr old dogs are campaigned spareingly .
After that age their point value decreases , while maintaining whole life payout at a minimum.....
After 4 yrs it's time to move on to the next dog, IMO.
Maximize a dogs earnings while it's in it's prime.

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Need more pr more hype more build up !!



In this corner standing at 6'7" weighing in at 256lbs with a record of 26-0 with 26 wins coming by way of knockout the raining defending red bone man champion of the world Richard the hammer lambert.


It's time !!!



Mee

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I just want the money I don’t care how old the dogs our they ain’t no count at any age. If a man wins he should at least get his entry fee and his gas refunded. Use to be I wouldn’t own a pup that wasn’t ss and pp now I don’t care as long as there ss cause the pp doesn’t pay enough to even think about. Were does the performance money go? Who’s pocket?

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Do away with it, payout the night of the hunt.

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Need more pr more hype more build up !!

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Originally posted by Allen / UKC
UKC is working on several significant changes relates to nite hunt structure, as well as the Performance Program. At this time details are still being finalized so we are not at liberty to discuss any changes at this time yet.

However, we would like your feedback and thoughts on a specific item related to the Performance Program. Current rules make a permanently nominated dog eligible for its whole life. This is a good deal for the owner but it does also take away from the fund obviously and might help increase point values otherwise.

Should UKC consider putting an age limit on those permanently nominated dogs, and if so, what should that age be? Leave as is? What are your thoughts?

Would it make a difference if those older dogs had some other good incentive to hunt for?

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Originally posted by Redneck Mafia
And an easy link that is on the main page without having to do a search for performance races, breed standings ect would be nice. It should not take 5 min and eliminating 410 other found items to look it up!

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Personally, I feel putting a cap on the age limit would be a mistake. When you pay a dog up and use the term permanently eligible I feel that's what gets the guys to pay the fee. Take that away and you might just have hunters not pay the dog up period.

I think a start as discussed before would be allowing Grand Nites to compete at the local level to keep earning points.

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agreed

Also let dogs that aren't out of performance sires be paid up for a higher amount

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Originally posted by Redneck Mafia
Gonna throw this out there, each kennel club has something that is loved by the hunters and works well that other could learn from and implement in there own way that still would make them unique.
For one it's the no leash lock when trees are scored in order that no one ever complains about. For it and another it's the tree countdown rewarding the dog that treed first. But one thing one does right is the races and standings. A simple click on a link and these guys check this frequently and when they are running for a ticket sometimes several times a day waiting on the latest update.
You should not have to do a search to find Performance standings or any race for that matter.

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The one year cut off to enroll a hound is to get the ones that never make a night hunt dog to pay up. Extend the age would allow owners to not pay until the hound is making a decent hound.

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Personally, I feel putting a cap on the age limit would be a mistake. When you pay a dog up and use the term permanently eligible I feel that's what gets the guys to pay the fee. Take that away and you might just have hunters not pay the dog up period.

I think a start as discussed before would be allowing Grand Nites to compete at the local level to keep earning points. Let's be honest a lot of UKC hunters are pleasure hunters that only hit a hunt when their local club has one.

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I just see a few things.

1. Make it were a dog can be paid up after 1 year of age, if it wasn't paid up.

2. Make it to were any dog can be paid up in the performance program even if the litter wasn't nominated.

3. And do not put an age cap on it. Leave it for the lifetime of the dog.

4. Make it to were a litter can be paid up without the sire being a performance sire. This would give the people a chance to who are not big on breeding a chance to participate as well. For example instead of 150.00 it would be 200.00

5. Also make it to where a dog can receive points from an RQE, Mini Slam and Slam hunts.

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I think a start as discussed before would be allowing Grand Nites to compete at the local level to keep earning points. Let's be honest a lot of UKC hunters are pleasure hunters that only hit a hunt when their local club has one.

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Performance Program needs to bring back paying up older pups

under 6 months $25.00
6 months to 1 year $50.00
1 year to 18 months $75.00
18 months to 2 years old $100.00

This would entice stud owners to get back to paying their hound up each year as a Performance Sire.

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A guy buys a hound that wasn't Performance paid and the hound is proving to be a consistent cast winner that new owner would pay that extra money to get that hound performance paid. JMO

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The one year cut off to enroll a hound is to get the ones that never make a night hunt dog to pay up. Extend the age would allow owners to not pay until the hound is making a decent hound.

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GrNiteCh's can hunt at the local level. That was one of the reason the performance program came about. Was to increase the participation back at the local hunts and the GrNiteCh's would get some gain from it.

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PP wise, what's 1 dog approximately worth right now? say there are 4 nt champions. Would that be about $40 for first place?

let grands hunt in the Nt Ch category for PP and have a state race worth running for. I believe local participation will increase, definitely wont hurt.

Beat me to it Trevor, lol

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Unless I am confused there is nothing stopping you and three of your grntch buddies from hunting now just travel together to all the hunts in your area would pay you about the same as a $30 $$$ kc hunt.


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Unless I am confused there is nothing stopping you and three of your grntch buddies from hunting now just travel together to all the hunts in your area would pay you about the same as a $30 $$$ kc hunt.


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Well how much would you win against three ntchs lol. You could beat me easy !!



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