Surveyor
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This is a good subject and one that needs some discussion, especially with all the deep and lonely dogs split treed in all directions these days. First it's important to realize it takes a majority of the cast to award plus or minus points at a tree, not the majority of the handlers present! I learned this the hard way some years back when we let 1 guy go handle his dog and stay with it while the other 3 of us went to score another dog. That dog was carrying 225+ and had 225 riding on his current tree. The tree was as obvious slick as it gets, but the dog's handler just absolutely refused to vote to minus his dog and put a question on the card. MOH told us we didn't have a majority vote to minus the tree, and it takes a true majority, not the majority of the handlers present. I had never thought of it that way before that. So then there is the obvious problem of handlers going to handle dogs a half mile away then return to the others treed. This hardly makes any sense usually and though I know it's wrong, I'm usually the first guy to say, hey can I just stay at my dogs tree when I get there and this is what usually happens, leaving the rest of the cast having to vote unanamiously to score another tree. In most cases this works out ok, but not always! Of course you also have the guys that try to shame you into just going ahead and scoring the other dogs before walking to your tree saying your dog isn't much good anyway if it won't stay a half hour and though there is some truth in that, and that also usually works out too, the truth of the matter is you open your dogs up to all types of possible difficult potential problems when you do that-what if it's treed in a dangerous location, what if it gets hot and slows down its barking? A handled dog isn't subject to the 2 minutes, but a non handled dog is even if it's been treed an hour! Also what if you go into an area you can't hear them any longer while going to score the other dogs? Is the judge going to stop and put the 2 on him-you bet he is! So it's just smart to handle that dog when the 5 is up or everyone else is treed, but then what? I don't know the best approach to then what, but it's a good topic to look at.
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2 time world finalist, 10th overall and high scoring Bluetick of the 2010 UKC World Coonhound Championship
NASHOBA VALLEY PIAZON, (RIP)
his littermate brother
UKC NT CH SHEPPARDS NORTHERN
BLUE LONER (RIP)
UKC GR NT CH RATTLERS BLUE SKY (RIP)
UKC Gr NT CH, PKC Ch Sheppard's Northern Blue Abbie, (PiazonxSky) UKC GR NT CH 'pr' Sheppards Northern Blue Punkin (PiazonXAlice) High scoring Bluetick of the 2015 (50th anniversary) Grand American, 2017 National Grand Nite Champion of breed, 2017 BBOA zone 4 Nite hunt dog of the year. Queen of hunt on 2019 Grand National Bluetick Reunion, 5th place and High Scoring Bluetick of 2019 UKC world Nite hunt Championship, 2019 Triple Crown Winner.
UKC GR NT CH 'pr' Mckintosh's Blue Flame Chopper
Gr Nt Ch Sheppards Northern Blue Goomba (Piazon X Dizzie) 14th place 2017 UKC world coon hound championship 100 purina point cast wins in 2018
and several other blueticks of lesser accomplishments 
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