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GON Shines With Its WMA Info Each August Dear GON, The article a couple of months ago on quota hunts really helped us. We love dove hunting Di-Lane but can’t go this year, so we did points-only because of that article. You all do a great job. Charlie Hendricks, Metter Don’t Like Daylight WMA Dove…
We all want to improve hunting opportunities on land we control. Many of us put in food plots, plant nut and fruit trees and manage native vegetation in an effort to increase wildlife populations. Much has been written about food plots, concentrating on wheat, oats, clovers and other annual and perennial crops. So, in this article…
Glen and Mark arrived at the refuge at noon on Aug. 24, and after finding a good shady camping spot, the pair began to set up their living quarters for the next week. “One of these days we really need to work out a sponsorship deal with the folks at Thermacell. These swamp skeeters will…
Uh-oh. Blue lights. Think fast. (Which, admittedly, ain’t one of my strong suits.) So we’ll simply do what everybody else does… First thing is to glance down—heart in throat—at the pickup’s speedometer: YIKES!!! That’s what you get for cruising—and I DO mean cruising—these lonely county-maintained roads. Secondly, try to figure out how long it’s been…
Fatherlessness continues to be on the rise in the country today. Current stats show that there are more than 23 million youth growing up in a single-parent home across this nation. Many of these are boys are growing up without a father. These boys do not have an opportunity to share the outdoors with a…
Hunting Reg Changes And so it begins. Another fall hunting season is at our front door. It’s always a time when the majority of our hunters are primed and ready to go at it. Small game, dove and big game seasons are kicking off, and with it, close to 300,000 hunters will be spending time…
The 2020-21 season has tallied up 93 record-book bow bucks, the most ever recorded in a single season of Georgia hunting. There’s a chance that after GON’s Outdoor Blast scoring and a few late bucks that will trickle in this fall and winter that we could see triple digits in the number or record-class bow…
Ashleigh and Anna were taking the kids for a walk down the trail at the new farm the two families had just bought. It had been raining, a frog choker, running some of the creeks out of the banks. But all that was over, and it had cooled off enough to get out for some…
Deer Hunting Options On Corps Property Around Lakes When considering where you’ll go to complete the ever-more important task of filling the freezer this fall, don’t overlook the opportunities around Georgia reservoirs operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). There’s some good hunting on lands that surround these lakes, but permits are often…
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