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:D Point taken Butch. However, I'm the weird exception one man show so I wind up untying most of my own knots. I also have a lot of experience working the ground-for my dad and for my own subs. In some lines a bowline can get sucked down to where it is moderately difficult to untie. mostly if...

I suppose....I don't usually have any difficulty untying bowlines.

Half hitching in addition to choking a piece with a running bowline may serve a function in stabilizing the way a piece will hang but a half hitch is more prone to the liine damaging/cutting itself when shock loaded than is a running Bowline. Thus "taking part of the load off the running...

,....but a half hitch is a much weaker connection so that reason becomes somewhat apparently foolish.