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It’s still the golden age for Georgia turkey hunters. For the seventh straight year, Georgia turkey hunters are expected to set a new harvest record, topping last year’s record of 40,000 gobblers. The expansion of the turkey flock and turkey hunting in Georgia is nothing short of phenomenal. In 1973, just 18 years ago, the…
December 13 was a bad luck day for three Taylor County poachers who picked one of the worst places in Talbot County to go night hunting—a deputy sheriff’s front yard. According to Department of Natural Resources records, three three men in a pickup left Butler in Taylor County and drove across Highway 208 into Talbot…
It was Christmas Eve several years ago in the north Georgia mountains. My wife’s parents live just outside Hiawassee. There was a gathering of the clan at the family home on my father-in-law’s cattle farm. It is not a big operation, but he’ll run 40 to 70 head on pastures along the Hiawassee River bottoms.…
Georgia hunters killed more than 160,000 antlered bucks last season, but not one of those deer has emerged as a Boone & Crockett class buck. This year, many reports say the harvest is down from last year, but already there’s been a record number of Pope & Young bucks killed and now the second buck…
Georgia’s first Boone & Crockett class buck in two years has fallen in Wilkinson County. On the morning of Nov. 19, 1990, Dwaine Davis, of Macon, killed a monster non-typical buck barely 10 minutes after he climbed into his stand. Dwaine’s family owns several tracts of land in Wilkinson County, one of which consists of…
A Pine Mountain woman has killed what appears to be the biggest buck taken in Georgia thus far this season. Delaine Flowers is a member of a serious deer hunting family. Her husband, son and daughter all love to chase white-tailed deer. Delaine was hunting with her 15-year-old daughter on the evening of Oct. 9…
James Buice Jr., of Decatur, and a friend from South Carolina hadn’t caught a fish yet on Oct. 27, 1990 at Lake Oconee, when James got the strike of a lifetime. The two had just come in from deer hunting and were fishing the rip-rap along the Highway 278 bridge up the Oconee River when…
The number of Pope & Young qualified bucks taken in Georgia this year continues to climb! The buck pictured below, killed on the Marine Corps Logistics Base near Albany by 28-year-old Michael Layfield, is the eighth buck we’ve seen that should easily qualify. In addition, there are at least four more bucks on the bubble—an…
Rob Barnard, of Snellville, was successful at bagging his first deer on Saturday, Oct. 20, 1990. Rob didn’t have a car Friday, but he wanted to go hunting real bad—bad enough that he decided to ride his bike from Snellville to Redlands WMA! Rob started peddling at 3:30 p.m. Friday and got all the way…
Many a country boy has yearned to make a living off the land hunting, fishing or trapping. Some dream about it, while others seize the opportunity and head to the woods. One group that actively pursues an outdoor livelihood is the Georgia Trappers Association (GTA), a tightly organized group of approximately 400 sportsmen scattered throughout…
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