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As Wayne Proffit said, if run under National's Rules, the SCORING of hounds is covered under the RULES! The same would apply if run under the Master's Rules.
If all these one-day hunts, puppy hunts, hunt club fund raisers, etc, were RUN utilizing either National's or Master's rules, there would be a lot less confusion on scoring, and calculating the winner's and those that place!
Unfortunately a lot of these hunts are using or making up their own rules, and not everyone in attendance knows what they are. Therefore, confusion, hard feelings, and accusations are made about the results, or the judging.
If judged & run properly using either set of rules, there would be a lot fewer problems, and happier folks in attendance!!
The "he said, she said" rules leave a lot of folks wondering!
Even with specific organizational rules, by which to conduct a hunt, it is often times a challenge to make sure the scores are correctly entered and the results are correct as well!
Putting together a field trial is a daunting task, and judging, can be a thankless task too!
Maybe more "thank you's" to folks for putting on a hunt, and to the judges as well, and a lot less whining and complaining, would be beneficial to all!
If I understand the way I read the rules.
1. Judges riding together in pursuit of a chase should split up as soon as possible.
2. Times should be kept up with so a hound does not get duplicate scores for the same work.
I know we have gotten deep on this one question, but I feel we all agree 2 judges should not score the same crossing. This should not make any difference in wheather using National, Masters or whatever rules are being used or not.
my opinion..today..everyone wants a big scoreboard...at whatever cost.the national rules has a 10 minute time limit,others have 5,,,a lotta hunts today want every crossing to count...every crossing..even if judges are standing togather should count...I've never agreed with this...but it is what it is,without a time limit,I've stood at a crossroads an scored a hound three first place crossings in under a minute,by national rules,only one crossing would have counted....today if different,everyone wants a high scoring hound
There are cases where father and son, boyfriend and girlfriend, one experienced and one non experienced judge are together. IMO this is fine and can actually help if the experienced calls out numbers and the other rights them down. Pen owners like to see high scores but nobody likes to see their hound put up dots when they could have been in the top ten at multiple crossing but the judge couldn't log the numbers fast enough by himself. The more dogs that get scored the more accurate the scoring will be for places 5th through 20th. Any judge can catch the first 2 or 3 dogs.
If they are running a masters or national computer scoring program, then the computer will automatically keep the highest score in the 5 or 10 minute time intervals and throw out the other ones.