I'm not sure many people are reaching the point of the question, they are all jumping on the QDM thing which, really isn't the meat of the topic here. He asked, why would you enter a BIG buck contest, then shoot a small one to enter. I feel that is a valid question regardless of which side of the QDM debate you are on.

My answer to his original question is.....some guys will enter a contest, with the hope that a BIG one will walk by that they can win with, but thier main intention is just to shoot any buck, or one that makes them happy without necessarily being a winner. Guess they figure its like a raffle ticket, hit the number win money, kill a big buck win money. Some places give half to the winner, and split the rest among all other people who entered a deer. So that's my thoughts on the question that was asked.