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Two Georgia teenage hunters were involved in hunting-related shooting fatalities this past season that were classified by DNR Law Enforcement as “mistaken for game.” On Nov. 3, in Coffee County a 14-year-old from Broxton was shot and killed by his 18-year-old brother, who apparently mistook him for a deer. According to DNR Law Enforcement Sgt.…
Chris Jannakis of Gray won last month’s Georgia State Turkey Calling Championship at Unicoi State Park. The win marks Jannakis’ first win in the event, which runs in conjunction with the Georgia State Convention and Awards Banquet of the Georgia State Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF). Second place went to Doug Benefield…
With deer season over, big-game hunters across Georgia are shifting gears. Turkey season is a little more than a month away, and it’s time to start thinking about how you’re going to trick that wiley old gobbler. The National Wild Turkey Federation’s (NWTF) National Convention and Sport Show is coming to Atlanta Feb. 21-24 just…
The long war over hunting on state parks had its first real battle in 1989 in Harris County over proposed hunts on FDR State Park. It is likely true that the last battle in this war was held recently, again regarding hunting on the huge park. In 1989 after numerous deer/auto accidents including one that…
The cold, winter weather of February often puts a damper on bass fishing on most of our lakes. Bass go deep and school up tight and don’t eat much. But Lake Sinclair is an exception to that rule. The warm waters discharged from a Georgia Power Co. power plant make it the most popular lake…
Robby Alley from Jonesboro was trying to fill his freezer before deer season was over. It was late morning on Dec. 31, and Robby sat looking out across a clearcut on the Double-D Hunting Club in Meriwether County. “Three does came through, and I shot two out of the three,” said Robby. When Robby walked…
Sometimes it’s easy to forget how the cold can cut you to the bone, but there was no time to worry about that. I was standing on the deck of a Triton boat, right foot crossed over left with the butt of a 16-foot B&M rod wedged between my knees. In my right hand, which was…
Webster’s dictionary defines complacency as, “self satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies.” This is a perilous state in life, and in the world of a turkey hunter, it eventually spells doom. When we hunt turkeys in a state of complacency, we are setting our- selves up for failure. It is probably…
My love affair with lead-headed, rubber or hair-skirted lures known as jigs started in 1987 when my girlfriend at the time gave me a jig-head mold for Christmas. Teresa is now my wife, and hundreds of thousands of jigs later there are times when she wishes she had not given me that original mold due…
I don’t know who said it first, but memory is the paradise from which we cannot be expelled. I vividly remember my first pair of hunting boots, my first shotgun and my first deer, but most of all I remember my first dog. She was a great gal. Just ask any dog lover, and they’ll…
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