Blair Wiggins killed a Richmond County, NC brute of a buck on Nov. 19, 2023 during a quick afternoon hunt. The deer had a unique 13-point rack, and her taxidermist estimated the buck at about 5 1/2-years-old.
“I shot this buck exactly 1 year to the day that I shot my first nice buck, and 8-pointer,” said Wiggins. “I’m still in shock myself.”
And she completed this hunt the old-fashioned way.
“Good ol’ Mother Nature brought him to me! No corn, no call, just him and me,” she said.
The deer was already in the field when Wiggins made it to her stand.
“I got lucky. He was in the field as I was climbing in my stand around 4 p.m. I really couldn’t do too much but keep climbing and get situated to get him in my scope,” she said. “By that time, he had walked across back into the woods.”
But it wasn’t long before the buck made another appearance.
“Around 4:30, he just happened to pop back out from the side of the woods about 60 yards in front of my stand just walking the wood line towards me,” she said.
She didn’t want to shoot the buck straight on, so she waited a few seconds, realizing that time was crucial.
“He acted like he was about to walk back into the woods, and I made a sound so he would stop. He turned his body and looked towards me, so I fired. He ran about 50 yards or so into the woods and dropped,” she said. “It’s one of the quickest deer hunts I’ve ever had to get this big boy!”
Wiggins has only been hunting for 3 years, and said she appreciates this hunt, and this buck.
“I feel so blessed to have harvested this deer in my third year of deer hunting!” she said.