Home Taxidermy

This involves the mounting of a trophy using the skin of the animal. This will be judged on overall look, finish and originality

Mounted Trophy

This involves the mounting of trophies not using a taxidermy process, ie: Horns on a plaque, tusks on a shield. This will also be judged on an overall look, finish and orginality.

Tanned Skin

This involves the home tanning of a skin taken as a trophy using any tanning method. This will be judged on finish, trimming, symmetry and overall look. When a skin is taken with a broadhed you can't help but to leave cuts. Providing some attempt is made to sew up these cuts they will not go against the overall judging of the skin.

Article Made From Tanned Skin

This involves making something bowhunting or archery related, from a skin you have tanned yourself. This will be judged on finish, usabilty, originality and overall look.

Article Made From Leather

This is the making of something bowhunting or archery related. It does not have to be from leather that you have tanned yourself. This will be judged on the quality of work and the amount of non leather parts used in the articles constuction. This doesn't mean don't enter articles with buckles, studs and beads. But if two articles were hard to seperate the one with the least non leather parts would be leaned towards

Knife and Tomahawk Set

This ideally should be a working knife and tomahawk made by your own hand. Judging will be on the obvious time spent on the project and the quality of the finished article.

Composite article

This can be anything you like, using any materials but should be loosely related to bowhunting or archery. Some examples would be a self bow or arrows. It doesn't have to be directly related to archery or bowhunting but precedence will be given to those that are. Judging will be on finish, usefulness and originality.

Best Photo Album

This can be of any type of photo album as long as it has not been entered in this competition previously. Judging will be on photo quality, layout, captions and contents of photos. Any album containing photos of game with arrows still embedded will be disqualified.

Best Hunting Related Photo

This is the only non point scoring section and has only a 1st place and is typically rewarded with a photo related prize. This photo can be anything at all as long as it is related to hunting in some shape or form. It will be judged as per photo album.