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Hunting
As bucks from this past Georgia deer season are measured by official scorers, the Georgia Deer Records are seeing quite a few noteworthy new listings, including a new all-time bowhunting record buck from Twiggs County. Jody Chance, of Danville, arrowed a monster 9-point buck—a main-frame 8-pointer with a 2 3/8-inch sticker—that tallied 160 6/8 total…
The below article and video first aired in June 1999 with striper angler Glenn Brown, GON writer Lindsay Thomas Jr. and GON-TV cameraman Eric Thornton. Join them for an amazing day of fish catching on the Coosa River more than 20 years ago. Subscribe to GON’s Youtube channel. “If a location is going to produce…
It’s that time of the year when some official scorers are getting their hands on and measuring tapes around some of the season’s best bucks, and one of those bucks just measured came out even better than expected. Usually estimated scores seem to be inflated, but in the case of Logan Crosson’s giant 12-point buck…
In my travels of north Georgia a couple years ago, I ran into an older gentleman at a wild-game processing plant. His name is Bob Watkins, and when I asked him who loaded up the big buck he had killed a few hours earlier, he looked up and motioned for me to follow him. We…
The outdoor and hunting world in Georgia has lost a very special friend. Art Rilling, who owned and operated the Stone Mountain Game Ranch from 1962 to 1982, and later the Yellow River Game Ranch from 1982 to 2012, passed away on Jan. 4, 2021. He was 92. Art was a mentor and inspiration to…
Daylight, 35 degrees and a big sow was well within rifle range. It was an exciting start to the Cumberland Island youth deer and hog hunt on Dec. 19, 2020. It had probably been a decade or better since I’d spent a few days on a Georgia barrier island looking for deer and hogs. In…
GON January 2021 Volume 35, No. 1 Our featured cover photo this month is Jacob Walker, of Byron, with his Crawford County 11-pointer from Truck-Buck. The January cover also features our annual VOTES survey. January 2021 Feature Articles Coyote Trapping Ain’t Playtime To be successful at consistently catching wary song dogs, you need to…
This year’s WRD-hosted Hunting Regulations Public Input Meetings will be hosted in mid January. Those dates and locations are below. These meetings allow hunters to attend and share their thoughts with WRD staff regarding hunting regulations that will be compiled and composed over the next few months and ultimately be our hunting regulations for the…
Dodge County: At approximately 2300 hours (11 p.m.) on Sept. 27, 2019, Cpl. Dan Stiles and Game Warden Austin Biggers were set up on a night hunting detail in a known night hunting area off of Pete Sapp Road in Dodge County. The officers were positioned on the edge of a wood line adjacent to…
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