i myself dont have much experience with tournaments having only hunted in one but imo the barr hog rule was a way to answer all the crying and bickering from the people who only hunt with what i call the stick and shoot method and that being stick the hog shoot a picture and be gone with it....hog hunting has grown extremely fast and still growing at an alarming rate without people realizing that this was once a way of life and not just sport and barring hogs was a means of population control and feeding families without having to put alot of money into feeding a hog out by lettting them feed theirselves out and that people still practice it and i find its a crying shame that organizations who pride themselves on supporting heritage of working dogs are letting competitions and money get in their way of preserving the ways that these dogs were bred and raised to do.....my hats off to you chance and the rest of you guys for standing up for what you believe.....like you said these are supposed to be HOG DOG competitions and what does a hog dog do when you turn it out....find HOGS be it boar, sow. barr, shoat, pig or whatever as long as at the end of the day they are putting hogs at the end of tracks....btw great hunt guys and i hope the dogs heel up for yall
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