Jenna Rollins wins first Bag-A-Buck Contest

Lady Sportsman is from Georgetown

Jenna Rollins of Georgetown said that when she was younger and beginning to deer hunt, her father wanted her to kill a doe first to get her jitters out of the way.

She insisted that she wasn’t going to kill a doe – or a small buck, either. She was going to wait for a nice buck before she’d squeeze the trigger.

The wait was worth it. On Sept. 1, opening day of gun season in Williamsburg County, Rollins killed her first deer, a 9-point, 168-pound buck that was in full velvet. On Sept. 30, her name was drawn as the first monthly winner in South Carolina Sportsman’s Bag-A-Buck 5 contest presented by Rivers West.

Rollins will receive a prize package including hunting apparel from Rivers West, a South Carolina Sportsman t-shirt and camo Sportsman window decal, a Tink’s Scent kit, Realtree caps and Monster Buck DVDs, a Plano storage box and a copy of Cooking on the Wild side, a book by Ty Conti, the magazine’s publisher.

And she, like everyone who enters the contest on www.SouthCarolinaSportsman.com, will remain in the running for the grand-prize, which includes a 2-day hunt on The Territories, a 2,300-acre hunting preserve near Ninety Six, a Leopold scope, a bow from Anglers Sporting Goods in Monks Corner and Irby Street Sports in Florence, and an “Outlaw” package of hunting clothes from Rivers West. The grand-prize winner will be drawn in time for presentation at the Palmetto Sportsman’s Classic in Columbia next March.

Rollins said she had a couple of pictures of her buck on a trail camera, but she didn’t expect to see him come out on the season’s first day.

“It was about 7:30, and I looked to the left and saw something I hadn’t seen before, so I looked through my binoculars and saw his rack, and then he walked out with the other buck, which had four points on one side and a cowhorn on the other,” she said.

Rollins watched the two bucks feed out into a beanfield for about 20 minutes. Finally, she said, “they came out of the high beans where I could see his shoulder, and I shot him.”

At 95 yards, the .270 WSM took the buck cleanly through the chest.