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By Jacob Dorn The following is the official account of how I narrowly escaped death on Jan. 4, 2023 while harvesting the now pending Georgia state-record Jackalope! He weighed in at 22 pounds and was officially scored with a total dry score of 82 3/8 inches off of six scorable points! For all of the…
Odds are that it won’t happen to you. However, the reality of odds is that it can happen, no matter how unlikely it may be. So it is with alpha-gal syndrome, and knowledge of it could just save your life. Jamie Stewart is just another outdoorsman, a normal guy who likes to hunt and fish.…
Rivers are up and down again this week—you’ll just have to check the gages regularly before planning a trip. Every gage except the Satilla at Waycross was opposite of last week’s status (rising or falling). Bites in saltwater and in the swamp were good. Satilla River: The river is back out in the floodplain again.…
In Episode 1 of Season 4, Clae Mathis and the Out There Outdoors crew are busy filling feeders, setting stands and cameras and doing all the preseason prep work to be ready for deer season. “It is time to get trail cameras back out. We had a lot of work, but things got interesting when…
Now that April Waldrop has been bitten by the record fish bug, the Hogansville woman has set her sights on something even bigger. April was fishing for gar with her husband, Larry, and her two sons on West Point Lake recently when she landed a lake-record longnose gar that weighed 23 pounds. The 52 1/2-inch…
With a fully loaded Chevy pickup from John Megel Chevrolet on the line, there was still that sense of GON Community in the air. As Public-Land Wildcard winner Gerald Yoder and Week 10 winner Sy Crumley competed in a head-to-head duel from 60 feet in Rounds 7-10 shooting at raw eggs, there were hand shakes and…
The Biden Administration has announced that it will eliminate federal funding for schools that offer hunter education and archery programs. That has school systems across Georgia, and the U.S., in a tizzy. The decision was a result of the Biden administration’s interpretation of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. That act has language that prohibits federal…
Cody Gay, 16, of Nicholls, collected a $3,000 shopping spree from Adventure Outdoors after winning GON’s Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out on July 28 at GON’s Outdoor Blast. In addition, Cody won a dream deer and hog hunting trip with Woods-N-Water outfitters in Wilkinson County. Cody was the only one of 17 shooters who hit the…
Rivers are up and down—you’ll just have to check the gages regularly before planning a trip. Bites at the Swamp and ponds were good. The inshore saltwater bite should improve this week with better tides. Satilla River: Chuck and Hunter Dean fished the lower river Sunday and ended up catching 14 bowfin, a gar and…
Since Georgia Outdoor News magazine started in 1987, we have continuously enjoyed sharing the accomplishments of others. Some months we’ll receive hundreds of pictures of happy hunters and anglers every year who just want to share their accomplishments. We are truly blessed that so many loyal Georgians think enough of GON to share with us about what they’ve accomplished.…
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