Barrs

Chance, I am not on the TDHA board this year, so I am not in the loop about this years contest.

I can tell you that we have talked about pulling the barrs out of the stringer for the last couple of years. It had nothing at all to do with how hard they were to "re-catch", that is not the issue at all. The issue for us, in the past, was only that the barrs had been "previously caught" and that means that they also could have been moved.

"Could have been moved" by this I don't mean I/we ever suspected that teams were loading spots by hauling in barrs. We just were thinking ahead and trying to head off a problem before it might happened.

I personally do not have a problem with y'all that barr boars. I understand the history of it in parts of the state. In my part of Texas it is simply not done and anyone caught barring and releasing would lose every place they had to hunt.

One issue is that in the rules it allways says "hogs can't have been previously caught or held for the contest. This puts the barrs in a grey area because they have been previously caught.

Chance, I will tell you that writing a fare set of rules for the TDHA contest is a very difficult task. TDHA has all ways worked very hard to put on a contest that is as fare to all hunters as we could possibly make it.

This is an important thread. This issue needs to be discussed openly by all involved.

As I said before I am only a regular TDHA member now and have no input on the rules.

Thanks,
Paul T