Video: Chickasaw County Couple Share Passion For Hunting

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OKOLONA, Miss. (WCBI) —  Deer hunting season is winding down in Mississippi and this year, WCBI is looking for the “Biggest Buck.” Our contest will reward the hunter who brings in the prize deer. Our own Allie Martin visited with one contestant who has had a change of heart about hunting and the great outdoors.

It doesn’t take a visitor long to figure out that someone in this Chickasaw County home is a veteran hunter.

Dixie and Paul Edwards have been married for 31 years and hunting has been a major part of his life.

“He loves hunting almost more than he loves anything else,” Dixie said.

His love for the sport has caused some problems.

“At times I’ve wanted to kill him because he would hunt over everything, family gatherings, or anything else,” she recalled.

Not long ago, Dixie, who is a retired school teacher, started to hunt.

“I realized that I understood his addiction to it because I became quite addicted, I hunted everyday last year and most of the days this year, I’ve been in a deer stand,” Dixie said.

She hunts out of her own deer stand, on family owned property and earlier this month, she spotted a buck that she had seen once before.

“He came out running, and I shot him and he landed right over there in the bushes, it was a good day,” she said.

The buck was as big as any her husband had ever shot.

“He saw it first and he came out and he was so excited, I said, ‘listed, you weren’t this excited when I had your children many years ago, I said, this is the best thing I’ve ever done,” Dixie said.

“I said, you’ve done it this time, you have killed a big one. For anybody that deer hunts, that’s what we spend hours and hours looking for, that’s a trophy in anybody’s eyes there,” Paul said.

Soon, Dixie says her prize buck will have a special place on the wall of fame.

“He’s got a wall of nice deer he’s killed , but now I’m going to have to do some re arranging on the wall where mine is going to go,” she said.

The deadline for turning in scores for the Biggest Buck Contest is February 6th.