They are outlawed in most states. 

During the 60's and 70's and even into the early 80's there were retailers, sporting goods dealers, and others that were giving away money, cars, trucks, and anything else that you could think of.  There were a lot of people that did not enter any of these contest but had friends that did.  Well, you guess it they shot the biggest buck or bull on the mountain and let their friend enter it into the contest.  This didn't happen once or twice but quite often so the states shut them down. 

I'm not a fan of hunting contest. it takes away from the sport of it. IMO

the same thing is happening at a lot of Coyote events (smaller ones) they have a entre fee of $50-$100 per 2 man team and you have to check all your dogs at a given time. I was entered in one event in NM a couple of years ago. did very well with 4 dogs the first day and 4 the second day. but the local team won with 12 dogs and 9 dogs. stay around to do some more shooting on tuesday morning in the diner heard a couple of locals talking about fleecing all the coyote hunter with (name and name) " hell they only shot 2 coyotes that weekend, every one else shot the dogs".

What people will do to win, really makes you think what type of people are in the field hunting.

V/R

M Bird