Message #496590

[hatchet10]

A polygraph is a good deterrent for competitors in any competition. Actually, I agree on everyone s comments earlier stated. A polygraph can be beaten if someone answers their baseline questions a certain way. By controlling your heart rate and blood pressure/putting a certain amount of stress on your body while answering the question. I do not personally feel the tests are accurate because of this. I entered a contest on Feb 28th. I will never enter another hog dog contest again. Sorry, it was not for me and not for the group of dogs I run. I run all RCD's and normally kill hogs that I catch. Not take them alive. It was a task to pull 8 catch dogs off of a 200 lb sow and hobble it. by the time i got it hobbled and loaded in the trailer, it died. Anything 150 lbs and below, my dogs kill before I even get there. With that being said, I saw hogs brought into the weigh in that had no scratches, no marks, no limps, and no sign where a dog had even been near it. I found it hard to believe that they were caught by dogs. Maybe, herded by bay dogs into a funnel fence or something. There is no way, even if you had just one bulldog, there would be marks on the ear/ leg/snout of the hogs. I can pass a polygraph, but I am a honest person. I would never take anything away from what someone else earned. I also hunted all free ranging hogs. The rules said no high game fence but later I heard someone talk about it was legal to hunt a low fence. I have 2 questions for you guys because I don't do competitions. 1-What is a low fence? and 2-how do people catch hogs that don't have marks on them like they didn't use catch dogs? I catch and kill hogs all the time, I have never had a bay dog, and never had a dog that wouldn't bite a hog. I don't know how other people hunt and I'm curious