By Myra Bean
Totten Hamilton’s 13-point buck measured 63.75 and was enough for him to be this year’s Big Buck Contest winner.

Hamilton, of Lambert, formerly of Tutwiler, told Panolian reporter Billy Davis he was sitting in a tripod stand, on private land in Quitman County, when the buck walked into a field at about 4 p.m.

He made a broadside shot at 200 yards using .35 Whelen cartridge.

Hamilton took the lead on December 5 and never relinquished. He said he went hunting a few times after he bagged the trophy buck, but did not get another deer. Now he is just hunting rabbits for the next three weeks or so.

The 25-year-old won a Weatherby Vanguard 270 caliber rifle with a laminated thumb hole stock and the accompanying carrying case valued at $599.

Second place was a drawing held by contest co-sponsor Batesville Gun and Pawn. Tim Tatum was the winner of a 20-guage Stoeger double barrel shotgun, valued at $349.

Tatum bagged an eight-point on December 14.

The youth drawing winner was Adam Oates, son of Vicki Oates. He killed his first deer on November 6 while hunting with a friend, Stacy Barbee. It was a five-point.

Oates won a game camera, valued at $150.