steve bankston
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BO's first cast
On Friday night BO drew out with a Walker and a Blue Gyp. The Blue Gyps owner was the judge. I won't get into everything about this cast except to say there were several trees made and circled or minus but BO hadn't made a tree yet until the last one. On last drop there was 28 minutes left in hunt, I took 3rd strike and they worked down a drain between 2 fields on bad track. Walker treed and left so got minus and they went on. At about 600yds as they were starting to open better on track it was announced that there was 4 minutes left in hunt. A minute or so later BO hit the tree and before he got done with first locate judge treed his dog. He located again and I treed him. Time ran out and we finished waiting the 5 and headed to them. All I EVER heard treeing were 2 dogs and I knew it was BO and the Walker but didn't say anything. The guy that owned the Walker was a slow walker and all night as we walked he got further behind and as judge went into this tree this was the case also. As judge and I crossed creek about 20yds from dogs his light hit the tree. BO and Walker were there treeing. His dog was OFF tree between us and tree just stranding there. Looking off into the woods AWAY from tree. JUDGE quickly went to her, hooked her up and led her toward tree and hooked her to a handy small tree. His dog never barked nor even looked at the tree. Stood there clueless to the fact it might be a coon above her head. Anyway Judge walked out to left and started shining tree. I HAD to holler out to him and ask if we could handle our dogs as by that time the slow walking guy had made it almost to tree Judge said yes so I hooked BO to a small tree and went out to corn to shine. Also I should mention that when Judge and I were 200 feet from tree as we were coming in that he told me he guess he treed her wrong because he didn't hear her treeing. So with this in mind I'm thinking that was the reason he hooked her up so fast and walked off. He was mad she wasn't on or at the tree treeing and was going to minus her as should be done. So that would mean BO won cast with 125 plus because Walker man never treed his dog. After few minutes of shining I found the coon and showed it to all the cast. As we walked to truck it became clear that judge had NO INTENTION of giving his dog minus. He said the reason she wasn't treeing was because she didn't like the Walker dog he guessed. I couldn't believe it and other cast member was questioned about what he thought and he said he didn't care. When pressed further he said he Thought if dog was under the umbrella of tree it was ok to plus them up. This is exactly how the only plus tree of the night went. So Judge won cast with 225 plus by pencil whipping BO. I also want to say, in case Judge reads this and has anything to say is CALL ME, don't trash my thread. I told him exactly how I felt the other night about his call not to minus his dog. My number is 225-445-7259. Needless to say I must have missed something in rule book on definition of treed hound. I should have expected the call on BO's locate as time was running out, dogs were close together and northing to loose but everything to gain when you tree your hound off another hounds locate and just hope when 5 is up all dogs will be treed when you go in and you win cast. Roll of the dice but not the way I CALL MY HOUND OR EVER WILL. SO BO and I came home to read the rulebook some more as its obvious I missed the part where it says a hound don't have to BARK TREED, SHOW YOU THE TREE, and CAN BE OFF THE TREE AS LONG AS ITS UNDER THE UMBRELLA. That's all I got to say. WE left Saturday morning as I felt I would have been a distraction at the Park if Judge came around and said wrong thing to me. When I get hot I cant turn my emotions on and off like a faucet and get madder as time goes on so we held our heads high and headed home. Met a lot of great guys and had a great time and thanks to all that complimented BO on his mouth and looks. Sorry Scott and Phil that I didn't make it by on Saturday to get a picture with BOCEPHUS, CREEK and BO. We will run into each other again and get it done. BO made 4 trees on our trip to Illinois and all 4 trees had coon in them. He was hunted by himself first night up there and made one tree with a coon, 2nd night hunted with MR. ED, his hound Bobbie and Rilley handling her. Nice hunt where we treed 2. Had a great time and thanks again for having us MR. Ed. I love traveling and meeting folks but there is no place like home and sure was glad when we pulled up at 7pm last night and those pups that were here waiting for my return sure sounded good welcoming us home. I brought a new one home with me that will be named Bankstons Briar Patch Happy and call him Briar. He is out of Echo 11 Again and Jeff Lovell's Dizzy Dot. Thanks Jeff for selling him to me, it was good meeting you. Beautiful pup and already showing me he has the smarts. I will give BO a couple nights off and hunt Bell by herself as I'm sure she is ready to get out of that pen. I sold Speck so he is no longer here. It will be good to get back in these thickets, where I keep score with a rifle, NOT a CROOKED PENCIL, Good Hunting!
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