CIC UK Trophy Evaluation Board - Press Release
DRYING-OUT PERIOD FOR TROPHIES
After a number of years of research and exhaustive testing with antlers, horns and other trophies measured by the CIC Trophy Evaluation System, the Executive Committee of the CIC, the organisation’s management board, at its meeting in Portugal on 11 September 2017, endorsed the decision of the International Trophy Evaluation Board (ITEB) to reduce the ‘drying-out’ period, for all species, to 30 days. The ITEB, whose members are the forty-nine Senior International Trophy Judges from nineteen participating nations, considered the proposal at their meeting in Budapest at the end of August 2017, supported by evidence from research carried out in both Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Whilst it is very clear that drying-out periods of below 30 days show significant and obvious variations in weights, volumes and both linear and circumference measurements, the Board were persuaded by the evidence presented that once 30 days drying was achieved, further natural differences were unmeasurable and would not therefore affect the scoring system. This was true for both antler and horn.
Whilst it is always open to the less scrupulous hunter to try and ‘doctor’ some trophies by immersing them in water before measurement, in parallel to the introduction of the 30-day rule, the CIC has also introduced an additional monitoring system that is designed to help obviate such unwanted practices.
This change in the CIC’s methodology is effective with immediate effect.
UKTEB
11 Sep 17
DRYING-OUT PERIOD FOR TROPHIES
After a number of years of research and exhaustive testing with antlers, horns and other trophies measured by the CIC Trophy Evaluation System, the Executive Committee of the CIC, the organisation’s management board, at its meeting in Portugal on 11 September 2017, endorsed the decision of the International Trophy Evaluation Board (ITEB) to reduce the ‘drying-out’ period, for all species, to 30 days. The ITEB, whose members are the forty-nine Senior International Trophy Judges from nineteen participating nations, considered the proposal at their meeting in Budapest at the end of August 2017, supported by evidence from research carried out in both Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Whilst it is very clear that drying-out periods of below 30 days show significant and obvious variations in weights, volumes and both linear and circumference measurements, the Board were persuaded by the evidence presented that once 30 days drying was achieved, further natural differences were unmeasurable and would not therefore affect the scoring system. This was true for both antler and horn.
Whilst it is always open to the less scrupulous hunter to try and ‘doctor’ some trophies by immersing them in water before measurement, in parallel to the introduction of the 30-day rule, the CIC has also introduced an additional monitoring system that is designed to help obviate such unwanted practices.
This change in the CIC’s methodology is effective with immediate effect.
UKTEB
11 Sep 17
