Can someone please make this stick?
Folks in yet another attempt to increase awareness of the caliing competition, I am organizing all the information in one post. I hope this helps to answer any and all questions about the event. As always please PM me if you need further clarification. Unfortunately the masses of predator hunters will not see this post so please help to spread the word.
http://www.spiritedghosthunting.com/PPHA/2009_Contest_Entry_Form.pdfFor the Adult divisions the following sounds will be put into a hat and drawn from:
3 of the following 5 will be pulled and the caller will do each pulled plus an additional distress call of their choice. (choice must be different than 3 called)
Distress:
Coon distress
Bird distress
cottontail distress
jackrabbit distress
Fawn distress
2 of the following 4 will be pulled and the caller will do each plus an additional coyote vocalization of their choice (choice must be different than the 2 called)
Coyote Vocalization:
Adult bark
Adult Lone Howl
Adult Ki-Yi
Challenge Howl
For the Youth division.....no sounds will be pulled, but the following is what will be done.
For the Distress:
Cottontail Distress
For the Coyote Vocalization:
Adult Lone Howl
There will be a meeting at roughly 11:30 to draw sounds, review the rules and answer questions any callers or judges may have. At that point there will be no practicing allowed before the competition. The Adult Distress division starts around 12:00 pm. To break it up a little the the Youth calling contest will follow and then the Adult Coyote Division will be last. All scores will be tallied and announced after the end of the Adult Coyote Division. Only the top three in each division will be announced and the awards will be handed out.
There will be five judges that will be hidden behind some type of barrier. The callers will be visible to the crowd. We feel this will be more entertaining and a better learning experience for all.
During the meeting, the callers will draw numbers which the judges will never know. The judges will also be identified by numbers so you will not know who gave you what score. A calling committee member will call a number at random and that caller will step onto the stage. There will be no names used, just numbers. The committee member will then announce the sound to be called and will then inform the caller to start when ready. When the caller is done they will acknowlege the completion of thier call and will walk off the stage. There will be no re-calls in case of call malfunction. The judges will score the call on a scoresheet provided by the calling committee with the callers number on the form. The judges will then notify the calling committee member that they are ready for the next caller. This will be completed until all contestants and sounds are called one time. Nobody will call twice to tune the judges ears, all calls will be judged and the highest and lowest score for each sound will be thrown out. This means that there will be three scores tallied for each call.
The calls will be scored as such. Excellent 16-13, Very Good 12-9, Good 8-5, Fair 4-1.
Oh by the way, anyone can enter. This is a PPHA calling competition you don't have to live in PA. There are very few predator calling competitions out there and the PPHA is leading the way with these events.
I hope this helps to make your mind up about entering. It really is a fun time, so why not give it a try.................Tim
