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Was it? It was like a hundred and,

117 trees?

I'd have to go back and look, but it's up to 120 some trees now, I believe, because that was before

Krausen and Yant and before Saunders and Booboo Rivers.

And so we've had two hunts since then, and yeah yeah we've still never had two dogs on the same tree so from a guy out on the west coast the reasoning behind that

like you see that is a big plus right like like the handlers would consider that oh yeah

that's a really good thing just because you don't have to split points like because i'm assuming

like under competition style you get your strike and tree points but if they're all end up at different

trees your strike would end up splitting down the line,

but your tree, you could potentially have first tree on all four dogs.

Well, the EHS is a little different because these dogs, and right now they're geared

for three to four dog hunts, three to four dog casts. And so in a four dog

cast, your ideal dog is laser fast. It's going to be treed first. It is going to be struck first,

and then after that, it's driver's seat because you're the first dog to get scored. You're the first

dog to get cut back loose. And so when you think of independence in the elite handlers series,

these dogs are the dogs that are the same ones that are winning trucks and winning $6,500 hunts

and competing at the PKC World Championship and stuff. And so that independence just carries over.

We tailor the scoring for independence because it's a trait that we look for.

There's multiple reasons why.

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