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Hunting

Blackpowder Buck: A Classic Article By Charlie Elliott

Editor’s Note: On May 1, 2000 the outdoor world lost a very special friend, Mr. Charlie Elliott of Covington. Mr. Elliott was the author of more than 20 books, served as the southern editor for Outdoor Life magazine, and was the first director of Georgia’s Game & Fish Commission. GON wanted to share with its…

4-Wheeler Driver Speared By Stick

Scott Kuhn, of Locust Grove, never dreamed that driving less than 5 mph across a pasture on a 4-wheeler would turn into a bizarre, life-threatening accident. On Saturday, Sept. 30, Scott, 27, had taken the hide from a deer he had killed Friday to dispose of it at the back of a pasture behind his…

GON-TV: Ladies-Only Deer Hunt At Rum Creek WMA

In early October of the 2000 Georgia deer season, the Department of Natural Resources held a special deer hunt at Rum Creek Wildlife Management Area in Monroe County for female hunters. GON-TV Episode 78: aired Oct. 19, 2000

Lake Weiss Cold Snap Bass

October 10, the coldest morning Georgia had seen this fall of 2000, and here I was going bass fishing. Terrific. In the dawn light, as I headed west through Floyd County toward Lake Weiss, I could see frost on the grass in the pastures. A great morning to be sitting in a deer stand, I…

32-Year-Old Pickup Rack Makes Butts County Top-10

Paul Hall, of Duluth, was born and raised in Butts County. Back when he was growing up during the 40s and 50s, Paul’s father Rufus Hall ran a small country store on Highway 16 about 7 miles east of Jackson. The store was located at the corner of Thompson’s Ferry Road, then a dirt road…

Nesbit Bedingfield’s Fulton County 15-Pointer

“Come on, honey, time to get up.” Vicki Bedingfield shook her husband’s shoulder, but he showed little interest in getting out of bed. “Leave me alone,” Nesbit Bedingfield grumbled. “But it’s time for you to go hunting,” Vicki insisted. It was 4 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4, 1999. After getting home from work the evening…

Yellow Raincoat Booner

Thanksgiving Day of 1983 Jack Garrison, of Lithia Springs, was in Hahira visiting his parents on his grandmother’s 100-acre Lowndes County farm. A day earlier his dad had showed him a massive deer trail crossing a soybean field. A big water oak with limbs hanging down stood where the deer had been crossing a fence…

860 Pound Hog Killed In Telfair County

Believe it or not, Adam, Daniel and Tyler Williamson and Ernest Padgett caught this 860-lb. feral hog alive in Telfair County. The hog was throwing catch-dogs in the air before the men somehow tackled and tied the pig, which later died, apparently from heat stress. The dog in the foreground, Wiley, was cut under the…

Travis “T-Bone” Turner Involved In Button Buck Chase

On Thursday September 14, a Heard County button buck wandered into downtown Franklin and into the gate of the fenced parking lot at the public library. Though it was having a hard day, its luck was on the upswing — a meeting of hunters who are trying to bring Quality Deer Management regulations to Heard…

Dove Shoot In Hancock County

Opening day of dove season is like a cant-miss holiday for many Georgia hunters. For the 2000 opener, GON-TV joined Cliff Goodson of the Georgia Waterfowl Association for a shoot on Cliff’s Hancock County field. Stuart Richardson hosted the episode, which also featured professional dog trainer Rick Nudd of White Oak Kennels, and GON editor…

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