Big Dog wrote:Jimbo, Pete and I know each other well. He is right the dogs jumped on the edge of a field pounded around the field and then up and over a couple of ridges until they went completely out of hearing. There was 2 people that were kind of still questioning whether it was a deer race or not. I actually didn't wait very long, i scratched the two running deer and put the other 3 back on the ground. Even at the end of the cast there was one individual that was still talking about whether it was trash or not. Even after the dogs were caught and bought back two ridges over in a truck.
big Dog
WRONG CAST BIG DOG,YOU WAS NOT OUT THERE,THE JUDGE WAS A TALL BOY FROM PA.,THE ONLY DOGS THAT DID NOT GO WAS SAMMT WELLS MIRICAL DOG AND A DOG THAT BELONGED TO KEVIN SHACKERT AND HIS DAD WAS HANDLIN IT,YOU GUYS ARE GETTIN YOUR CASTS MIXED UP OR SOMETHIN,THERE WHERE A FEW DEER RACES THAT DAY.
THIS CAST CONSISTED OF ME,TIM BOYER,BILL GOLDERSLEEVE,THESE ARE THE DOGS THAT WENT,BILLS DOG IS THE ONE THAT CAME BACK AFTER 18 MINUTES,THE JUDGE CALLED TIME OUT BEFORE BILLS DOG HAD A CHANCE TO CHECK THEM,MY OPINION IS THAT 18 MINUTES IS A LIL LONG TO CHECK A TRACK AND TURN IT DOWN,A COUPLE GUYS SAID THEY HEARD A THIRD BARK,I CANT HONESTLY SAY I DID,BOTTOM LINE IS THEY DONT HAVE TO BARK,THE DOG WENT WITH TIMS DOG AND MINE,BILL CALLED AND CALLED AND SHE EVENTUALLY CAME BACK.
THE ONLY DOGS THAT DID NOT GO WAS SHACKERTS DOG AND THE MIRICAL DOG OF SAMMY WELLS.
THE JUDGE FROM PENSILVANIA WAS A NEW JUDGE,I TOOK HIMTO THE SIDE AFTER THE HUNT,ACCTUALLY THE NEXT DAY,I TOLD HIM HOW I WOULD HAVE HANDLED IT,I LET HIM KNOW THAT I WOULD HAVE WAITED TILL THE 3 RD DOG HAD A CHANCE TO CHECK IT,I LET THEM GO,ANYTIME A OFF GAME SITUATION COMES UP,I LET THEM GO,THAT WAY THERE IS NO QUESTION,IF HE WOULD HAVE LET THE DOG REACH THE OTHER TWO AND GAVE IT A FEW MINUTES,THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO QUESTION.
I HAD NO ARGUMENTIN IT,I KNEW MY DOG WAS RUNNIN JUNK,BUT,I KNEW WHEN THE JUDGE SAID HE WAS ONLY SCRATHIN MY DOG AND TIMS,IT WAS LOOKIN BAD,HERE YA GOT TWO HOUNDS ON LEADS ,SAMMY'S DOG AND SHACKERTS,THAT CAME STRAIGHT TO THE HANDLERS,THEY HAD 3 CHECKS EACH,THE THIRD DOG IN THE DEER RACE HAD 5.
PUT YOURSELF IN WELLS AND SHACKERTS PLACE,HERE THEY HAVE THEIR DOGS,NEVER HAD TO CHASE THEM OR NOTHIN,THEN THE DOG FROM PA,GOLDERSLEVES,IS GONE FOR 18 MINUTES ON OFF GAME,BUT IT IS ALLOWED TO RETURN,AND BEAT YOUR DOG.
THE JUDGE SAID"IF I HAD NOT CALLED TIME OUT BEFORE THE DOG REACHED THEM,SEEING HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN GONE,YES,I WOULD HAVE TO PROLLY SCRATCH IT."
I HAVE MY OWN OPPINION OF WHAT HAPPENED,BUT I WILL SAVE IT,THERE WAS NO DOUBT MY DOG WAS ON JUNK,BUT,I FEAL SAMMY AND SHACKERT TOOK A BAD ONE THERE.
BIG DOG,YOU HAVE YOUR CAST TOTALLY MIXED UP WITH THIS ONE BUDDY...............
. I would have tried to see if the third dog was indeed in the race (with no time out called immediately). If he was running with them on the track opening or not for that distance, I would have scratched him. The dog does not have to come back to the handlers, but it does have to quit the track.