Nine-year-old Alex Collins sent his mother into the office of Sheriff Carolyn Bunny Welsh in West Chester earlier this month for what he thought was the last step in applying to win a hunting and fishing trip with a sheriff.

But there was a problem.

The contest was for kids almost 600 miles away, at the sheriff's office in Chester County, South Carolina.

The family saw the contest on the Chester County Sheriff's Office Facebook page and assumed it was the Pennsylvania county.

Luckily for Alex, the two Chester County sheriffs happen to be friends.

In what the fourth grader called the best Christmas present ever, the two offices donated time and money to send Alex on a trip to South Carolina so he could hunt deer and go fishing with the correct sheriff.