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Hunting
This may be a record. We’ve got 142 WMAs, state parks or VPAs that hosted public-land bowhunts last year. Some are headliners—like Flint River and Sapelo—but some of them are obscure, small tracts you probably have never heard of. Where is Echeconnee Creek anyway? OK, so last year we had a pink elephant. Sapelo Island’s…
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From where I live in southwest Georgia, it’s close enough to the Gulf of Mexico to occasionally catch a whiff of salt in the air. The Gulf is where my friends and I bottomed fished for grouper and snapper, and it’s where chased redfish and trout on the flats. It’s our playground and sanctuary. In…
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Beginning Sept. 14, thousands of bowhunters will enter the Georgia woodlands in hopes of arrowing a whitetail deer. Some will be successful, most will not, and a few will suffer the agony of sticking a deer and not being able to recover it. Drawing blood but not finding a deer is one of the most…
Except for irate wives, unreasonable game wardens and “didn’t get in ‘til 3 a.m.” hangovers, nothing affects an outdoorsman’s success more than the weather. And since all hunters and fishermen know this, they are probably concerned about the political and media hysteria surrounding “climate change.” Let me explain quickly. “Weather” is short-term local atmospheric…
The Houston County Board of Commissioners recently disapproved an application that would have allowed Silicon Ranch solar company to place panels on a 4,700-acre tract adjacent to Oaky Woods WMA. Citing quality of living, property values, Georgia lawsuits against Silicon Ranch and wildlife habitat, the board unanimously voted against adding a solar farm to the…
The fish are starting to move out of their summer patterns and move around more. It can be good and bad. It’s good because they feed better than in their mid-summer mode, but it’s sometimes hard to find them in the fall. Altamaha/Ocmulgee River:– My prediction in last week’s report about the Ocmulgee was correct.…
Young Lady Qualifies For Second Shoot-Out Dear GON, We just want to take time and say thank you to all involved at GON. We have been lucky to be a part of the Shoot-Outs twice so far. When our daughter was 10 years old, she shot her first buck, which was a 10-pointer that scored…
By David Boone On Sept. 18, 2023 my son Caleb Boone and I headed out for an afternoon archery hunt on our lease in Walton County. My father Buddy Boone and I had just hung a lock-on tree stand the week before on a spot where Caleb had an encounter with a large, main-frame 8-point from…
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