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I just signed my whole family up as TDHA members. That's four new members. Some of the TDHA members post on the several threads over the whole BARRS allowed in a hunting contest has come across as, if your not a TDHA member then you don't have a right to express your opinion on the TDHA Tournament. Wether it was intentional or not, that is the way it came across and if it was intentional then I believe it was a pretty good strategy to boost memberships. Get a bunch of outspoken hard heads stirred up and goad them into joining. Well, I've joined and as I've said several times before, I'm for BARRS in your ( our ) tournament and I don't just mean one barr allowed in the stringer. If it's a hog and caught by dogs by legal means and within the rules of the tournament then it should be allowed. The polygraph will take care of the ones moving any hogs, barrs included, and stocking honey holes for tournaments. On just about every tournament flyer it says " you will not beat the polygraph ", well prove it and let the polygraph do it's job. It would'nt feel right if I won a tournament and found out that a team would of beat me but they were'nt allowed to weigh in 3 big barrs that they worked hard all day long and got their dogs butchered in the process of catching. There is nothing that can be done to even the playing field in a tournament. Someone is always going to have better places to hunt or better dogs and different areas of the state will always grow larger hogs than others. The whole arguement of a barr being a pre caught hog is a wash with me. There are alot more sows and boars out there that have been caught and released than there is barrs. The best way to try to level the playing field is to allow any hog that is caught within the rules of the competition to be allowed in the stringer and let the polygraph weed out the cheaters. I realize the rules have already been posted for this year and will not be changed but maybe this will be food for thought on next years tournament. There, Im a TDHA member and I've stated my opinion on OUR tournament.