Message #5707

[Circle C]

Reburn,

   I think that the winners of any contest are always suspect. We looked at the big hog at weigh in. He looked legit to us, and I am not about to call someone a cheater unless I know something personally.

Brute,

    My opinion on barr hogs fall in like with Mike. too many barr hogs running around in the woods to be counted out. Especially in east Texas.

Realdogs,

     I think you have it figured out. Just because the way someone hunts does not produce the numbers, some may need to change the way they hunt to win.  I do agree that we need two divisions. Knife and dogs, and shot hogs.

C Miller,
  We did toss some hogs during cleaning. We did not disqualify any hogs on the scale. This is a learning process, and we learn as we go. If a hog came in with ice in the cavity, or it was chilled in a cooler, it was counted. There was some effort on every hog entered to keep it cool when we saw it. Once we got to cleaning we found some bad ones. At that point we had no idea which team it came from. We are working on a system for 2009 to eliminate that.
Some ideas we have had are this.

Get a local processor, or a committee of 3 people to judge condition prior to weigh in. If they call it bad, it is not counted.

Another option, is to have a pile for each team, and process them by the team. If we do this, they payout will not occur until all hogs are skinned.

Still looking for ideas.
If you have some ideas you would like to bring up, let the TDHA know about it. We want this to be a fun productive hunt with integrity.