For those of you that do not know what the moderators cup is, it is a contest that we have been putting on for a few years to award enterants for the largest whitetail buck, viewers choice award for a bow killed animal and we recently added a youth hunter of the year award. This year we had the above listed people enter into the competition, which consists of a $5 entry fee. The money and entries are sent to me, and IL_BOW_MAN has been kind enough to set up the websight each year to post the pictures and information of the hunter and his trophy. At the end of the season, everybody gets their photos and information in, and I set up a poll to start the voting for the viewers choice award and youth hunter award. The largest buck is awarded as well.

With the proceeds from the entry fees, I have trophies made and mail them out to the winners. The entry deadline for animals is usually the last day of January, but I had inadvertantly let this slide this year and had not followed up on it, so we are trying to get everybody to send in their photos now so we can get this going. The rules are simple, and we go on a honosty system, but if somebody shows a small 8 point and says he scores 220, we'll question that some. All in all it is just good fun set up by the members of the bowhunting board. Originally it was called the moderators cup, so we have kept the name the same, but this competition has no direct relationship to the moderators of this site, or the owners of this site. It was set up by members for members.

Next years moderators cup should start around the end of August, and hopefully we will keep this thing going for another year.