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We have had a little break in the schedule and it was great to get back out there competing. We were in Spartanburg SC cooking for the Juneteenth event. Great event educating us about and celebrating the end of slavery. We didn’t have a Friday evening event so all the cookers came together for a [...]

What a great weekend. Friday was very restful with no activities. Time to fellowship with other cookers and take time to trim our Butts and get them ready to cook. Very restful time!  22 teams from around the state got together to support this event and I am sure it was successful in raising money [...]

Sorry for the delay in getting this report out, been a busy week. I competed in Greenville this week at the Project Host event. It had moved this year to a new location and I was a bit skeptical about the new location. It worked out well. Get out a few kinks for next year [...]

Well Rock Hill’s “Come See Me” festival was a great time. 14 of the top cookers in SC came out to compete and feed the masses of Rock Hill. It was a tough group to compete against. We had a great group of about 12-14 for Cook’s Church at 6:45 Saturday morning and we talked [...]

This Week we were in Spartanburg SC for the Hog Fest. This competition benefits the Mobile Meals Program. It was a great weekend and we had 45 cook teams. We had most of the top 10 teams in SC present. The completion was tough. Grand Champion was Gene & Tesa Culbertson from Backwoods Barbecue. They [...]

Great weekend for Bucky’s at Walterboro SC. Weather was good, crowd came out, and we had 31 cookers there. Thanks to Royal Oak Charcoal, Carolina Cookwood, and Pit Barrel Cookers we had a winning weekend. We managed to score a 16.10 in Ribs and bring home the 1st place trophy. The Cherry wood chucks from [...]

Bishopville SC was a great competition. It was the first time for this competition in a town with a population of only 3147 people. It was well planned and everything went well. Congratulations are in order for JT’s Barbq for 1st place on Pork. My great friend Brian Pearson was excited about his 3rd place [...]

This week the SCBA competition circuit went to Hardeeville SC.  I decided to stay home with the wife and visit with my elderly dad. But Bucky’s was represented there. Well kind of .. James Davila .. a Bucky’s employee has his own competition cook team. The Saucy Pig! there were 20 teams competing and James [...]

Port Royal SC was the first competition of the SCBA season. Bucky’s was there! The weather was great and the crowd of cookers was many. We had 33 teams competing. At least 20 of these teams were in the top spots of the SCBA for 2016. Bucky’s did great .. I was well pleased and [...]

During 2016 our Bucky’s competition cook team cooked at 12 locations around SC. We did very well finishing 11th out of 245 teams. This was our 3rd year of competing and we are excited about what is ahead for 2017. Keep checking back to see where we will be and how we do during during [...]