Alan Webb of Mebane made a small move the evening of Sept. 18, and it wound up being a good one.
“I had hunted the day before; my dad and I have a ladder stand about 75 yards back off the edge of a cornfield – one of the few cornfields in the area,” he said. “The deer I saw that evening were all along the edge of the field. I saw one buck and thought it was a 10-pointer. They were all out of range.”
Webb was back the next afternoon with a climbing stand. He found a suitable tree close to the edge of the field, and at 5:45, the big buck approached, walked up to within 15 yards of Webb, turned broadside and gave the archer something to enter in North Carolina Sportsman’s Bag-A-Buck Contest.
Two weeks later, his entry was drawn as the winner of the first of four monthly contests, giving him a prize package that includes a Sportsman T-shirt and window decal, a copy of “Cooking on the Wildside,” a Tink’s scent kit, Realtree caps and Monster Buck DVDs, a Plano storage box, a truck bed liner from LINE-X, a $25 gift certificate from Springhill Outfitters, ammo grips from God’A Grip and hunting apparel from Rivers West.
In addition, Webb – and anyone else who enters the contest before Jan. 1 – will be eligible for the grand prize: a one-person, two-day hunt in northeastern North Carolina with Fourth Generation Outfitters, a CVA blackpowder rifle, a Leupold rangefinder, a Nikon ProStaff scope and a LINE-X truck bed liner. The grand prize will be drawn in time to be presented at the Dixie Deer Classic in Raleigh next March.
Webb’s buck was a 9-point Alamance County trophy, tall and narrow. It had an inside spread of just over 12-1/2 inches, but two tines longer than 7-1/2 inches, two more longer than six inches and another an eighth of an inch short of six inches, and main beams better than 22 inches long. He has green-scored it at around 122 inches gross.
“There were does between him and me, so I was lucky to get my draw back,” Webb said. “He gave me a perfect 15-yard shot, but I shot him (too far back). All the other deer around all ran off, but he just walked right out into the standing corn and disappeared.
“They had all been feeding in a strip right close to the edge that had already been cut; they were feeding on the new green stuff that had grown up,” Webb said. “He just walked on out into the corn that hadn’t been cut.”
Webb decided not to push the buck. He came back the next morning with his father, went to the spot where he’d shot and where the buck had entered the standing corn, and as they were splitting up, he looked ahead and saw the buck, dead, lying several rows back in the standing corn.
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