Protest held outside hunting convention

LAS CRUCES (KRQE) - Protesters picketed outside a hunting convention Saturday in Las Cruces.
    
The animal rights activists protested outside the 2013 Predator Masters Annual Hunt and Convention, held at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum.
    
Protesters say they wanted to bring attention to a state proposal that would ban predator hunting contests.
    
They say that they were outraged over an unrelated coyote hunting contest in Valencia County last year.
    
A state lawmaker has now introduced a bill aiming to ban animal killing contests, like the coyote hunt.
    
Predator Masters Executive Director Jeff Mock said his nonprofit organization is not having an organized hunt nor are they holding a contest.