I'm sure just about everyone on this site has been a part of some hunting contest or another, sometime in their lives.I've been around long enough to know thatanytime you have competition with a prize on the line, you will have guys who "cheat" or "bend the rules" to get an edge on the rest of the field.
If it's golf, they're fluffing their lies and shaving strokes. In baseball, they're taking steroids, corking bats and doctoring the ball. In hockey, they're wearing oversized pads and using sticks with too much curve. It's everywhere. Cheating.
So, post 'em here. Your best stories about guys who got busted for cheating in whatever context (gun, bow, trapping, big game, small game contests). We're going for entertainment value here, so don't be afraid to tell us
exactly what they were doing to get the advantage. It doesn't even have to be a "contest," it could be guys who were trying to add inches to make PY or even using "questionable" tactics to win an archery or rifle shoot.
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I've got a few:
1.) We usually enter a groundhog shooting competition in August every year. The prize is usually around $1000 to the winning 2-man team with the heaviest 5 hogs. Guys will do anything to win. Anything.
[ul][*]They now have to gut the prize-winninggroundhogs, b/c they caught a guy stuffing lead fishing weights up his groundhogs' asses to make weight. Seriously, I think it's time to re-evaluate your life when you're ramming lead sinkers up a dead woodchuck's ass. [X(][*]"No wet hogs" is now written in the rules, because some genius decided to soak his groundhogs all day, and weigh them dripping wet to add a few ounces to each hog. LMAO[*]"No roadkills" is now an official rule.
Oh yeah.Apparently, they've checked in a few hogs over the years that were "highly suspected" of being roadkills. [*]I know one of the local wardens who told me that, on the day of the big groundhog contest, he gets a huge spike in complaints all over the areaabout truckloads of guys roadhunting for hogs. He sincerely wishes that the hog contest would disband forever. LOL[/ul]
2.) Turkey contest: With a free turkey gun and $500 on the line, we had aguy who got caught crazy gluing a few "extra long" strands into his turkey beard, trying to get that extra half-inch of beard length and finish in the money.