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Hunting
As deer seasons go, last year was just a tad out of whack. Throughout the fall, GON reported on lower numbers of deer being brought to the coolers, lower numbers of Truck-Buck entries, and hunters repeating the same themes… too wet, too hot, too many acorns — all excuses for why they weren’t seeing as…
Each September I drive to northern Wisconsin for a two-week fishing trip. I never leave home without a pistol, and I have a valid Georgia Firearms License. During that trip I go through several states and have worried about the legality of having a pistol with me. Many states have reciprocal agreements with Georgia and…
GON August 2003 Volume 17, No. 8 On The Cover: Ronnie Bates of Rentz won Week 7 of the GON Truck Buck Contest last season with this Laurens Co. 12-pointer that scored 157 6/8. Photo By Brad Bailey August 2003 Feature Articles Two Booners In Best Bucks Of 2002-2003 Georgia Deer Season…
Editor’s Note: The following information was taken from DNR Law Enforcement incident reports. On Friday, November 1, 2002 at about 11:30 p.m., Cpl. Jim Bradfield was notified by telephone by the Troup County Sheriff’s Department that Cpl. Brent Railey was working a night-hunting complaint on Hwy 18 at Dennis Smith Road and that he required…
“Deer tracks makes mighty thin soup.” You’ve seen this old joke cross-stitched and framed or painted on plaques in country homes, but you don’t hear it much anymore. Honestly, when was the last time you came home from the woods unsuccessful but reported with enthusiasm that you had seen some deer tracks? But there was…
Like shooting fish in a barrel, only easier. Even this buck, a mature one from what he could see so far, didn’t seem to have a care in the world as it walked through the hard-wood bottom toward the creek, approaching steadily. Pathetic deer. Time to put a little fear of man back in ya,…
The bass hit the junebug split-shot Trick Worm in about 6 feet of water, and when Mike Meason set the hook the fish came straight up out of the water like a Polaris missile. The 4-pounder cleared the surface by at least a foot, then splashed back into the water broadside, nearly on its back.…
Those of us who have had the opportunity to hunt ducks in a flooded field of corn or grain sorghum, or in an impoundment planted in rice, know that these settings have the potential to draw clouds of ducks. The hunting opportunities that result can be outstanding, but the bad news is that most of…
Sensing some slight, imperceptible twitch in his line, Joel set the hook and moments later a crappie skidded across the surface from under the dock toward the boat. “I think that’s 10 in a row,” he said. I had caught zero, and as far as I could tell, had not had a bite. Joel fired…
It is appropriate that May is a good month to turn your habitat-management thoughts to wild turkeys, since many of us still have turkeys in our hunting thoughts as well. May is the right time to put in a plot of chufa, a nut sedge that will feed wild turkeys during the tough months of…
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