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There is a storm coming and we have to prepare for it now. The coming storm is an attack by anti-hunters on hunters and hunting right here in Georgia. The storm is scheduled to hit about 16 months from now. The cause of this storm is home-grown. State Senator Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) has spear-headed a…
Protect Your Gun Rights Dear GON, When Ronnie Garrison writes his Right To Bear Arms column every other month, everyone needs to read carefully what he has to say. I am a deputy sheriff. The biggest number of officers I have talked with over my 22 years of working has the same feeling I have…
DNR Conservation Ranger First Class Robert Peacock lives in a rural area of Crawford County. On Saturday, April 9, 2005, he was off duty and had taken his nieces fishing. At about 2:40 p.m. he was standing in his neighbor’s yard cleaning fish when he heard a shot from a shotgun very near his home.…
Gun-ban fanatics insisted that mass murder in the streets with assault weapons would begin when the Clinton gun ban ended last fall, but nothing happened. Those same folks predicted the state of Florida would become the Wild West with daily gunfights in the streets when the new Castle Doctrine was recently signed by Gov. Jeb…
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Grandma’s 88 now. Getting a little bored with the garden club. Misses her four “boys,” my uncles and me, all grown and gone — though not far. Sixteen-gauge shotgun shells are getting hard to find. So, it seemed to be a natural fit: I took my reloader and 2,000 hulls over to grandma’s house so…
If ever there was a need to give a group of folks a thank you, it’s now. WRD Fisheries has turned a dilapidated downtown Waycross swimming pool into a place to host an annual kids fishing event (KFE). On June 18, 2005, the pool hosted a new bunch of kids that came out to fish…
When the Okefenokee Bass Anglers in Waycross was a fledgling club in the late 1990s, there were only two anglers who were proficient with a spinning outfit. Some of the guys did not even own a spinning reel. During the summer months, when the majority of the bass were in the main run of the…
It’s been said that bowhunters alone won’t be able to reduce a deer population. According to Clayton County Water Authority (CCWA) personnel, its deer population has dropped in half thanks to bowhunting efforts. Prior to 1996 the CCWA had deer problems — an estimated 80 to 100 deer per square mile, according to Jep Palmer,…
Features: Summer Striped Bass And Hybrids At Clarks Hill When the linesides stack up at Clarks Hill in July, Capt. Dave Willard shows how you can use both scent and sound to pull them closer to your boat and your baits. 4 Hunt Accident Tree Stand Falls Chronicled Each Georgia deer season 15 to 20…
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