does being in the contest change anything for you?
Just curious if anyone looks at hunting differently being in the contest than you would if you were not in it? Some possible examples would be you feel more pressured to fill your tag, you shoot a smaller buck than you normally would like to but feel too bad to pass it up, you hunt more often than you would because of the competition, etc.
I don't think it has changed anything for me except for the fact that it is nice to have some more people to share my successes and failures with.