Hunters ‘rack up’ in Star Feed & Seed’s Big Buck Contest

SPOTLIGHT ON STAR FEED & SEED BIG BUCK CONTEST

WILD HOGWINNER The winner of Star Feed and Seed’s Big Buck Contest, Wild Hog Division, is Preston Gilliam of Rhome, Texas, who won a monogrammed jacket. Gilliam’s hog weighed 225 pounds and was killed in Dickens County in mid-November 2022. | COURTESY PHOTO
WILD HOGWINNER The winner of Star Feed and Seed’s Big Buck Contest, Wild Hog Division, is Preston Gilliam of Rhome, Texas, who won a monogrammed jacket. Gilliam’s hog weighed 225 pounds and was killed in Dickens County in mid-November 2022. | COURTESY PHOTO

For the past nine weeks, hunters in Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Kent, King, Motley and Stonewall Counties have tried their luck at winning the 23rd Annual Star Feed and Seed Big Buck Contest.

For more than two decades, the Spur-based feed store has managed a scoring system in categories for whitetail, straight eight, mule deer, wild pig, bow and youth and rewarded successful hunters thro…