Membership
The Pope and Young Club is a membership based organization of dedicated bowhunters and conservationists. There are three levels of membership: Associate, Regular, and Senior. All new members must join the Club as an Associate. The only requirement to join as an Associate Member is to be a bowhunter and have pursued the challenge long enough to have harvested at least one adult North American big game animal with the bow and arrow (not necessarily of record class size). The Associate Membership is unlimited in number to qualified individuals. Membership in the Pope and Young Club is entirely separate from the Records, which is one of the programs maintained by the Club.

Entry Requirements
The Records Program maintained by the Club is open to anyone. A successful bowhunter does not need to be a member of the Club to honor an animal with a listing in the Records. Animals must be taken with a bow and arrow under the rules of Fair Chase during legal hunting seasons, as well as in accordance with the controlling hunting regulations.
The Club maintains a staff of certified official measurers throughout North America. These trained volunteers, numbering over 935, provide this valuable public service and are the backbone of the organization's Records Program. A list of official measurers in each state or province is available upon request from the Club's central office in Chatfield, Minnesota, or can be found in the "Find a Measurer" portion of this site.
An animal's antlers or horns (or skull in the case of bear or cougar) must dry, at room temperature and normal atmospheric humidity in an unaltered state, for a period of at least 60 days after the date of harvest to be officially measured. If the final score meets or exceeds the established minimum score requirements for that species, the following materials are required to submit the entry for possible inclusion in the Bowhunting Big Game Records of North America:
[ol][*]Scoring form completed by the official measurer[*]Fair Chase Affidavit completed by the hunter[*]Three photographs of the antlers, horns, or skull. A front view, a view from the left side, and a view from the right side. A field photo, if available, is beneficial to include.[*]$25.00 recording fee, payable to the Pope and Young Club. [/ol]
The fee is for the entry into the book to be one of your highlights of the hunt if you so chose. Membership is anyone if they chose once harvested a animal with a bow as a accomplishment for the hunter.
Chose is the keyword here.

Now after reading some post there are some great points and after further thoughts on this one key thing that stuck out was harvest in different states. P&Y is in general for bow hunting as a whole and does not discriminate against states. Some states have their own scoring records like Wisconsin. (Wisconsin Buck & Bear Club) So I originally voted yes but since have changed that to a no to part of this reason.
In closing it all comes down to choice and how you want to honor your animal and what way you do this. Its your choice and thats what is great about it.

Lets keep united because hunting needs it.
Tony