The phrase "hunting contest" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a competition or game in which participants engage in the activity of hunting. Example: The annual hunting contest drew in participants from all over the country, each eager to showcase their skills and win the grand prize.
[Reuters, Nature Climate Change] A coyote hunting contest in New Mexico that infuriated animal rights advocates ends without major disturbances.
Eleven Burmese pythons have been captured in Florida since a hunting contest for the snakes, an invasive species, began in southern Florida on Saturday.
In February a hunting contest in Modoc County, California, drew thousands of complaints to the authorities (it went ahead anyway).Coyotes rarely attack humans.
Florida plans to open a Burmese python hunting contest next month to slow the spread of the snake, an invasive nonnative species.
At one point, as the group crossed a wooden bridge, Samantha's father, Scott, who had accompanied her -- and had filled out her application for the hunting contest -- teased her that trolls lived under the bridge.
States have begun to ban coyote hunting contests.
In the 1900 Olympics in Paris, live birds were used as targets in shooting, a sport that evolved from European hunting contests to a more humane version.
The complementarity of peace chiefs and war leaders and the occurrence of competitive activities between neighbouring groups including ball games, hunting contests, and trading expeditions imbued traditional social structures with a characteristic dualism.
The grande dame of citizen science projects, the National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count, started in 1900 when the ornithologist Frank Chapman proposed counting birds instead of shooting them in traditional Christmas Day hunting contests.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is awaiting the arrival of a bill that passed both legislative chambers this month that would eliminate coyote hunting contests — making it the third state after California and Vermont to initiate such a ban.
As part of the game's early promotion, a scavenger hunt contest was announced in the last week of May 2009.
