Any rule we come up with is an honor system so whatever y'all want to do is fine with me. The only suggestion I have that I think would be really cool is if we had a 10$ entry fee for the contest and the winners of the deer and turkey contest got tshirts that said something like "Aldeer 2017 turkey champs" with their team name". All of the extra money could go to the maintenance of the website or to charity. I know Yekrut does this on his own time and I would be glad to help out with getting some tshirts printed.

I'd be up for doing the fee for the deer hunting, but turkey contest would just be a donation to team 1. They already know they are going to win!! Lol

You can't win forever. There have been several "Team 1's" in both contests over the years. Someone bigger and better will be drawn eventually, it's all about having a team that all hunts and fills tags, not about killing high scoring animals necessarily.

You are absolutely right about all hunting and filling a tag. For the past few years, it seems the team i get on have 2 or 3 guys that disappear from here after they have entered the contest, do not hunt or participate in team discussions. I wish there was some way to cull out those that don't participate.

Me too, if you get s team that hunts and if they all manage to get 3 birds then you'll have a chance, but people that sign up knowing they may not hunt but a few times just hurts there team. Just for fun so oh well, thanks Yekrut for handling all this mess

The only way I see of dealing with the members who sign up and then drop out, without hassle, is possibly 2 things:

A limit of post count or join date before signing up and

One less count of entry than team members for birds/deer in case someone has a team with a no-show player.

In other words, 6 players with only 15 birds needed for entry, or 6 players with only 10 deer entered max.

Might put a stipulation if one player enters a bird then 3 birds must come from that player, to keep from picking a choosing best birds from all team members.

Same with deer, if a player enters a deer, he/she has to enter a buck and doe.

As for the fee to enter, that would eliminate some potential no shows, but will cause hassles in MANY other areas which isn't worth it, in my opinion.

God Bless,
David B.

I agree with the post count or join date. That would help a little.

Either way, thank you YEKRUT for getting all of this together for us