You bring up two excellent points. 1... What excites you may or may not excite me or any one else watching or judging. This is a subjective sport... a beauty contest with wheels. and 2.. Unless you see every brace, you cannot judge the stake, End of story.trueblu wrote:tenbears, however, I do want to be excited by range. Not just huge going, not running off, going with the handler,whether on foot or horseback. I've seen a lot of folks who walk their dogs, don't own horses, don't attend many trials,be very upset because, "my dog had 6 finds and the winner only had 2" or "my dog had so much style but he didn't place" or "man my dog really worked those fields, he listened, turned on the whistle, but he didn't place". Most of those folks don't have clue one what is expected in a trial and many have never hunted a day in their lives. Juddges don't count finds, judges are not impressed with a dog that hunts its rear off 50 yards away, judges aren't impressed with style if the dog yo yo'ed the entire brace, they aren't impressed with a wonderful stylish find dead broke on the horse path. Point is, it's really hard to knock the judging unless one knows what the heck they are looking for and knows dogs themselves AND rides all braces. There are a lot of experts back at camp sitting around telling how much they know!!
As for bigsugar's comment above. That statement is completely off base. If a horseback handler is "inconvenienced" by a walking handler then they are in the wrong sport. Walkers are part of the sport. If one cannot handle at the pace of a walker then they should run in AF where there are no walking handlers allowed in some of there events.
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Secondly sometimes the best way of getting a fresh perspective on the way things are percieved is to have an outside opinion on the way things look to someone who has limited experience with a subject. Thirdly I understand that NFL refs are paid and your judges are volunteers. I simply stated that if you did not like what you were volunteering for then don't volunteer or you could just change the rules so they fit your idea of how they should be. Maybe I will go volunteer at the church tomorrow to fix a meal for the homeless but only if the cook the food I think they should cook, prepare it the way I think it should be prepared, and serve it on the dishes I think it should be served on. Perhaps judges should be allowed to use electric side by sides to help cut down on the cost of their volunteer efforts. No horses, no feed, no boarding costs, no horse trailers, that would make it a lot more convenient. I guess I will go back to shutting my mouth and not posting now since Vagas Mathison has spoken and I am sure this post will be deleted just like all the posts where him and I have conversation and I will be waiting for my administative PM warning me not to upset Vagas anymore just like usual.
