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Hunting

Savvy Strategies For Deer Hunting Food Plots

Plant it, and they will come. Just make sure you don’t hunt it too much. If you do, or if you make some mistakes in how you hunt it, they may only come at night. Or they might stop coming at all. Deer and food plots… the idea of turning dirt and sowing seed for…

September Inshore Fishing Magic In Christmas Creek

As the greenish-silver tarpon broke the surface and submerged only 10 feet from the boat, I yelled out of instinct “Tarpon. Tarpon! TARPON!” “This ought to last about 2.6 seconds if he bites,” I quipped, as I plunked my seatrout offering, a Saltwater Assassin four-inch Sea Shad suspended under a Cajun Thunder float, in front…

Marion County Dog-Drive Buck Makes B&C Book

You know how rare a Boone & Crockett buck is, right? To kill a buck that is listed in the all-time record book takes some doing, otherwise, the book would be so heavy,  you and two of your friends couldn’t pick it up. I mean, it’s not every season, or for the vast majority of…

Fox Squirrels

When it comes to squirrel hunting, fox squirrels are trophy-class. For most sportsmen, just seeing a fox squirrel is an event, in part because the uncommon squirrels are large and often flashy. Fox squirrels come in a variety of color phases that include fox-orange, jet-black, and several variations that are primarily gray or are a…

Tournament Reports September 2005

August 27, 2005: Berry’s, Sinclair Joe Pennone, of Warner Robins, and Chad Cleghorn, from Marshallville, had a five-fish limit going 15.93 pounds and won the August, 2005 Berry’s bass tourney at Sinclair. “They won it flipping docks with jigs in eight to 10 feet of water,” said Bobby Berry, tournament director. “Green pumpkin with a green…

River Creek Plantation WMA

If you have ever dreamed of hunting on a south Georgia plantation, but never thought you would get the opportunity, get ready! Your chances have just increased dramatically, thanks to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) recent acquisition of some prime property in Thomas County. Nestled between the confluence of the Ochlockonee River and…

Brooke! 13-Year-Old Wins 2005 Truck-Buck Shoot-Out

In one of the most-exciting finishes ever for the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out, youth was served yet again, and this time it was a 13-year-old young lady who out-shot everyone to win a brand-new pickup truck. Brooke Tomlin’s exciting victory was the third time in 16 Shoot-Outs that a youth 15 years old or younger has won…

2005 Pope & Young Special: Year Of The Suburban Buck

When is comes to Pope & Young-class bucks, Georgia’s 2004-05 hunting season was the year of the metro-Atlanta buck. Of 26 officially scored bucks to date, 13, or 50 percent of the statewide total, were killed in nine metro-Atlanta counties. The trend toward suburban bucks is not new, but a continuation of a trend. On…

Scrapbook September 2005

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Realtree Kids Scrapbook September 2005

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