Killed two bucks on same hunt, wins trip to Cherokee Run Hunting Lodge
Kolby Grindstaff of Myrtle Beach said the 2015 deer season was one for the books for him.
“I killed three nice bucks; I ‘ve never had a season like this before, and I’m sure I never will again, but it was worth it,” said Grindstaff, a 23-year-old concrete finisher.
And that was before he was drawn as the grand-prize winner in South Carolina Sportsman’s Bag-A-Buck contest. Grindstaff’s entry of two big bucks he killed on Sept. 26 in Charleston County was drawn from all entries in the contest.
Grindstaff’s grand prize is a one-day hunt for two people at Cherokee Run Hunting Lodge in Chesterfield County.
The afternoon of Sept. 26, Grindstaff was sitting in a deer stand with his fiance, Katherine Brown, watching a shooting lane and a logging road.
“I was looking down a row of pines, and a 6-point buck came out into the shooting lane to a corn pile,” Grindstaff said. “I wanted to shoot him, because he was a really good 6, but my fiance said she saw another buck coming out. In a couple of minutes, an 8-pointer came out to the corn pile. As soon as he stepped in the corn pile, I shot him and he fell right there.
“I called my dad, and he said to just sit right there, because I had two big bucks in trail-camera photos that I’d never seen in daylight before. Then my fiance said there was another one stepping out into the logging road. It was a 9-pointer, one of the bucks I had on camera.”
Grindstaff pulled the trigger, but nothing happened; he’d never put a bullet in the chamber after shooting the 8-pointer.
A few minutes later, Grindstaff saw the buck run back across the logging road, chasing a doe. When the buck reappeared and stepped into the corn pile, Grandstaff anchored him with a shot from his .30-06.
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