In The Bob Ward And Sons Scope It Mount It Shoot It Contest Sponsored: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Scope It, Mount It, Shoot It Contest is and who runs it

The Bob Ward and Sons' Scope It, Mount It, Shoot It Contest is a sponsored public-vote promotion run by KYSS-FM, a Montana radio station whose home on the web is kyssfm.com. The title tells you the shape of it: a photo contest tied to a sponsor, Bob Ward and Sons, with the audience choosing a favorite image. The station labels the page as sponsored content, which means the promotion sits alongside KYSS-FM's regular on-air and site programming rather than standing apart from it.

The ballot is hosted on the station's own website, not on an outside balloting platform. That matters for a supporter in two ways. First, the rules you read on the page are the station's own rules, written by KYSS-FM rather than by a platform vendor. Second, the voting address is a single page on kyssfm.com, so there is no third-party login or platform account between a supporter and the vote.

In the vertical language used across public-vote programs, this sits in the business and best-of space: a local media outlet invites its audience to put a business front and center through a favorite image. It is smaller in scope than a full readers-choice poll with dozens of categories, and the station's page describes a single vote for a favorite photo.

The dated record: which editions ran and when the window closes

The contest is an annual one on KYSS-FM's calendar. Confirmed edition years are 2018, 2019, 2023, 2025 and 2026, a run that shows the promotion returning across separate cycles rather than being a one-off sponsored feature. The gaps between those years are simply years the ballot was not observed, not evidence the station skipped them, and the next cycle is expected in 2027.

The one dated fact printed on the live ballot is the close of the current window: voting remains open until 11:59 p.m. on November 6. That single line does a lot of work, because it is both the deadline a supporter works against and the anchor for the round's place on the calendar. The station pairs it immediately with the rule that everyone may vote as often as they wish, so the two facts a supporter needs most sit in one sentence on the page.

What the ballot does not carry is an opening date for the round, a nomination or entry phase, a list of photo categories, or any eligibility or per-person rules beyond the unlimited-vote line. KYSS-FM has not printed those items on the voting page, and no separate rules page is linked from it; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How a supporter votes on the KYSS-FM ballot today

The mechanic is deliberately simple. A supporter opens the contest page on kyssfm.com, looks over the photo entries, and votes for a favorite. There is no platform account, no third-party login and no separate nomination form described on the page; the vote itself is the action. The page's own instruction is to vote for your favorite photo, and the submission happens on that same page.

The rule that shapes everything a supporter does next is the unlimited-vote line. Because KYSS-FM states that everyone may vote as often as they wish, a photo's standing depends on repeat returns, not on a single visit. A supporter who wants an entry to stay ahead comes back to the page and votes again, and the station places no published ceiling on how often that can happen before the window closes at 11:59 p.m. on November 6.

Nothing on the ballot describes vote verification, IP checks or anti-fraud screening, and the station has not published any such policy for this promotion. That silence is not the same as permission to game the vote, and it is also not a barrier: the published mechanic is simply that repeat voting is allowed. A supporter working within what the page says has a clear path, and anyone wanting broader tactics for a photo vote like this can read how to get more votes online before the deadline.

How this ballot sits beside Montana's other public votes

Montana has a busy public-vote scene, and this contest is an unusual member of it. Most of the state's well-known ballots are multi-category readers-choice polls run by newspapers and community-vote platforms: Best of Whitefish, the Best of Billings from the Billings Gazette, Gallatin's Greatest from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Bozeman's Choice from Bozeman Magazine, and the two Community Votes ballots for Billings and Bozeman.

Those programs share a shape: many categories, a nomination round, and a business competing in its trade. The Bob Ward and Sons' Scope It, Mount It, Shoot It Contest answers to a different brief. It is a single sponsored photo vote on a radio station's own site, tied to one sponsor's name, with the audience picking a favorite image rather than ranking businesses across a roster of categories. A supporter who arrives expecting a readers-choice grid will instead find one photo pool and one rule about repeat voting.

For a business, the difference is practical. A readers-choice win carries a broad local credential, while a win here is a sponsored-promotion headline on a station page, useful in a different way. The two formats are not substitutes, and a Montana business weighing where to put its support effort should match the format to the outcome it wants. Anyone considering paid support for an award-style ballot can read our award-votes page for how those contests differ from simple photo votes.

Strengthening support before the November 6 close

Because the published mechanic is unlimited repeat voting, the strongest legitimate play in this contest is frequency. A supporter who returns to the kyssfm.com ballot page daily, and who asks coworkers, customers and family to do the same, is working exactly the lever the station built into the rules. The window closes at 11:59 p.m. on November 6, so the calendar matters as much as the ask: votes cast in the final days still count the same as early ones.

KYSS-FM has published no statement about outside help, purchased votes or automation for this promotion, so there is no organizer rule to quote on the subject. What is known is only what the page says: everyone may vote as often as they wish. Any support effort that stays inside that published rule is on the safest footing, and anything that depends on what the station has not addressed carries unknown risk. For the general legal and rules picture around paid support, see whether buying votes is legal.