Registered: Dec 2003
Location: east tenn
Posts: 127

Why do a lot of people think A.O. scores are a bunch of bull? I've heard people talk that kind of stuff for years it's crazy. If you get in the right spots with the right dogs you can rack up some big points in "02" I hunted Nt Ch. 1st time I ever went and I drew a nice hound out of KY named Buckshot. I was the judge and we treed 3 coons on the 1st drop. none on the 2nd (about 40 mins of the hunt). 2 on the last drop the Buckshot dog was by himself as by this time no one in the cast could touch him. This is what happened with 12 min. left we walked him down the edge of a corn field before he could be collared he struck, hit about 4 barks on the ground and fell treed about 100yds. away we wait the 5 and head into the tree (very clean woods) as soon as he handled the dog he told the rest of us to shine and sitting in on the 1st limb is a coon so he runs back up to where we are standing and cuts him back toward the corn field. With 4 min. left to go. Then B-shot strikes with almost 2 min. left and treed about 200 yds from us with about 20 sec. left in the hunt we go in and he has another coon winds up with 975+ after you take the 100- from drop 2 (handler wanted to call time from drop 2 to catch his dog off a feed track thats why he got the 100-) so we could have easly scored 2 or 3 more coons except for the 1 bad drop. Just seems to me that a lot like to talk when some people score big. I've scored 800+ with a Nt,Ch. at my home club here in East Tennesse, so I know that up north you can score 1200 to 1800 easy, In the right situation......

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Registered: Apr 2008
Location: simpsonville,sc
Posts: 480

speak for a.o. directly but other major hunts this happens quite often. 2 years ago setwd first 55 min. of the hunt we seen one coon, withdrawn with 65min left. nobody in the hunt had over 200+ at this point. got back to the fairgrounds the cast winner(guide) had a score of 1,100+ or so and said they seen 17 coon in the remainder of the hunt. not to metion done it in city limits of a certain town just south of the fairgrounds. i just dont see it happening

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Registered: Apr 2008
Location: simpsonville,sc
Posts: 480

it was 975+ and the cast winner only had 150+ with 65 min. nearest competition was 600

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