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August 2022: Vol. 36, No. 8 No hindsight ip unit displayed. These articles are only available to paid GON subscribers August Feature Articles Union County Bucks From Days Gone By A 1969 buck was finally officially measured, and it’s the new No. 1 buck of all-time for this mountain county. Wolf Pack Bass Target…
Once again GON has looked at all the hunt data from public lands and crunched them into easy-to-read tables and charts. In this year’s WMA Special, we have deer hunting stats on 91 pieces of public-land dirt. Top quota and non-quota hunts from last year are listed below. Jump in and do your research as…
Deadlines are nearing to participate in a WRD youth hunt. First up is an Aug. 15 deadline to put your kid on a dove field. Of the 11 quota dove hunts that were offered for kids last season, eight of them required no priority points for a spot. Go to georgiawildlife.com/hunting/quota to see which hunts…
Hard to believe we’ve only got about a month to go before men, women, boys and girls will file into prepared dove fields in hopes of collecting a limit of 15 birds for the grill. Thankfully, WRD does a really nice job of providing a list of places for hunters to shoot. To the right…
Although many hunters enjoy the small game season, there’s a large chunk who really enjoy our big game season. They practically count the days from the close in January until the opening in September. Georgia is such a great state to reside in, and we sure get a lot of new folks coming in from…
By Scott Barwick Twelve-year-old Blake asked his mom Heidi, “Mrs. Susan and Mr. Scott are kind of like family now, right?” She smiled after thinking about it and agreed with a yes. Susan and Heidi became friends when their places of employments were right next to each other and later they became business partners. They own…
By Travis Jackson I had been watching a buck for the past two years, having him pop up on camera on several properties where I hunt that are all relatively close to one other. I never had him show up consistently until the summer of 2020 when he started to be a frequent visitor to…
A fence funnel is a place where a fence is down or cut. Both fence funnels that are mentioned below are where a tree fell on the fence and created an easy place for deer to casually step over. Fence funnels are great for two reasons: No 1: They are great places to hang…
The phones have been ringing as folks await GON’s annual Pay Dove Shoots list. Well, here you go! Dial these phone numbers, reserve your spots and shoot straight. Keep in mind that we’re rolling into year No. 2 when dove hunting will legally begin one-half hour before sunrise on opening day, which happens to be…
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