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Ethical Conundrum Last month I taught one of my annual fall Georgia Hunter Education classes to a great group interested in firearm safety and being safe in the field. One of the topics covered was a “Shoot, Don’t Shoot” section. On the screen was a group of six bucks approaching at different angles. Clearly the…
Blackwater Bill was sitting on his porch in his weathered rocking chair when Glen and Mark turned off the dirt road and headed down his driveway. “How are you doing there Blackwater Bill? I reckon rocking chairs and retirement go hand and hand,” Glen said with a laugh. “They do, as long as you keep…
Shortly after Whit Forrester of Cordele married his beautiful young bride Doris in 1948, he approached her and said, “I want us to be able to do something in our spare time that we can share together so we’re never apart.” That suited Doris just fine. The two lovebirds were inseparable, and they wanted to…
An abundance of rain and good breeding production up the Eastern coast means Georgia duck hunters should expect a good season. However, news is not the same in other parts of the country. The Prairie Pothole Region of the Midwest and Canada has been very dry. Delta Waterfowl forecasts that poor breeding conditions in the…
This bear-dragging business just ain’t what it used to be. For some reason or other, the last couple of years seem to have brought about either a decided increase in dead weight or a similarly marked decrease in my back’s desire to heave-ho for even a mile or three. Not that we’re talking actual highway…
Make Trapping Mandatory Dear GON, This is for everyone who is still in such an uproar about the proposed changes for the Georgia turkey hunting regulations starting next season. If all hunters would do their share of predator control by trapping or killing coyotes, hogs, coons, bobcats, opossums, etc., I do not think we would…
I remember the year my friends and I were in the 8th grade with great clarity. And horror. That was the year we regularly fished up on the river below the dam on the weekends. Of course we had no way to get there, but there was a guy in the neighborhood named Mac who…
Just as Randy closed the door on the shipping container where he had put his new side-by-side, the county enforcement officer pulled up. “Good afternoon, sir. I am the County Marshall. I need to ask you a few questions, please,” the conversation began. Randy says, “Sure, what can I help you with?” The potential problem…
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On Friday, Oct. 22, fate, luck and nearly a decade of hard work all came together for Dillon Veal, of Blackshear, on a late-afternoon hunt on his family lease. “My family has been hunting the lease in Pierce County for roughly eight years, and we’ve done our best to manage it for quality bucks. It’s nice…
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