Trail Cam Photo Contest kicks off

Monthly prizes up for grabs for user-submitted photos.

LouisianaSportsman.com user bowman3d58

The 2011 LouisianaSportman.com Trail Cam Contest is now up and running!

It's time to show off all the photos from your trail cams in the 2011 Trail Cam Photo Contest.

“Hunting season might not begin until mid September, but scouting begins much earlier than that – and trail cams have become a big part of the scouting scene,” LouisianaSportsman.com's Andy Crawford said. “So we wanted to provide a place for our users to post their photos and compete for monthly prizes."

And this year, the contest can be found on the LouisianaSportsman.com’s reports forum. Only registered users can enter photos, but registration and contest entry is free.

“All you will have to do to enter the contest is to post a report in the Trail Cam Contest forum, just as you’d post any other report on the site,” Crawford said. “So now you don’t have to go to another part of the site searching for the contest.”

There will be five contest periods: Aug. 1-31, Sept. 1-30, Oct. 1-31, Nov. 1-30 and Dec. 1-31.

At the end of each contest period, a user vote will be held to choose winning photos from among the top images chosen by site administrators.

Each monthly winner will receive a $25 gift coupon to the online Sportsman store and a free one-year Louisiana Sportsman magazine subscription.

“This is just a way for us to show our appreciation to our users, so we encourage everyone to join the forum and begin uploading trail-cam photos,” Crawford said. “And it’s free!”