Big Buck Contest

Published 12:00 am Friday, February 5, 2010

Clifford Cobb accepts his new rifle for winning the Big Buck Contest sponsored by Batesville Pawn Shop and The Panolian. Jackie Pearson and Kelvin Marshall of Batesville Pawn presented the new rifle. (Please see related story.)

Cobb bags biggest buck in contest

By Myra Bean

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Clifford Cobb of Lambert has been hunting some 40 something years, as long as he has had his 30-06 his wife gave him when they first got married.

He used that Browning 30-06 to kill the winning big buck in The Panolian’s 2009-10 Big Buck Contest this year.

Cobb’s 13-point buck measured 64.50 inches with an inside spread of 19.5, main beam length of 26.50 and a base circumference of 5.75. He said this was the first thing he had ever