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Hunting
If there is an axiom about killing big bucks on hunt clubs, it is this: “Guests Kill Big Bucks.” Stan Steiner, who works for the DNR Fisheries Section and runs Moosehead Taxidermy in Americus, is the proof of that rule. On Dec. 21, Stan was invited to hunt on a 1,200-acre private farm in Lee…
Before deer season opened this year, Jeff Hill, of Tucker, had been hoping that he would be lucky enough to take a mountable buck this season. He succeeded in a way far beyond his dreams. His Nov. 23 hunt turned out to be his ultimate deer-hunting fantasy. The 1991-92 deer hunting season hadn’t started out…
Ben Rodgers Lee, the father of modern-day turkey hunting and calling, was killed in an automobile accident on Oct. 7, 2001 near his home in Jackson, Ala. Lee was 46. “Ben Lee was an ordinary man who enjoyed hunting and calling animals and did them both well, ” said Terry Rohm, longtime friend of Lee’s…
It was midnight at the hunting camp about six weeks ago. We’d been down on a dove hunt—deer scouting— stand hanging—work day weekend and it had been hot. The night temperature was comfortable, if clammy, and the soft breeze was just enough to keep the mosquitoes away. Light from a naked bulb 50 feet away…
We are not far from opening day of gun season. I want you to pay particular attention to this opening day—you’ll never see another like it. The face of Georgia’s deer hunting is about to change significantly. It is the start of that change that I want you to notice. Change is nothing new to…
If you’ve been staring at your big game tags trying to make sense of what’s printed on the tags and what’s written in the state regs about the season bag limit, what you see isn’t exactly what it appears to be. Those tags that are marked “Archery Only, Antlerless Deer Only,” aren’t. What happened is…
On July 6, three immature peregrine falcons were leased by the Georgia Game Management Section from hacking site on the rim of Tallulah Gorge. Typically the young falcons will remain in the area where they were released for six weeks or so before they migrate out of the area. But one of the young falcons…
If you plant a dove field, the kids will come, or at least that’s what the Game and Fish Division is hoping. To encourage more participation by young hunters, the state is planning its first-ever parent/child dove hunt. The Game Management Section is sponsoring the parent/child dove shoots at Pine Log WMA on Saturdays and…
A Georgia senator has taken the lead in Washington to protect hunters from harassment from anti-hunting groups on national forest lands. Sen. Wyche Flower Jr. (D-GA) last week introduced the “Recreational Hunting Safety and Preservation Act of 1991,” which would assess civil penalties of up to $10,000 for each violation of harassing hunters on national…
The state Board of Natural Resources as its May 23 meeting approved the 1991-92 Hunting Regulations after the public had one last chance to comment on the proposed regs. Turnout was light for three Game Management Section meetings held the second week of May. Just 16 people showed up at the Marietta meetings to listen…
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