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Georgia Jaws: Catching Nuisance Alligators With Jack Douglas

In 1999, GON editor Brad Bailey joined legendary alligator man Jack Douglas on the Georgia coast as Jack went after some big nuisance gators spotted near a swimming beach and in a residential area where an alligator got after a family’s dog. The segment from GON-TV also included an interview with the late Jim Simmons,…

Velvet Giant Nets 153 To Rank No. 2 For Pulaski County

By Chad Law I have three years worth of pictures of this buck. His jump from 4.5 to 5.5 years old was amazing! He made a small plot with a trough feeder in it his home and was very visible. He made the 1/2-acre plot his core and would not leave. My wife and I…

Mossy Oak Mistral Tubes By CTR

Just in time for turkey season, CTR, the leading provider in technical headwear, just launched a series of Mossy Oak Mistral Tubes, including some of Mossy Oak’s most preferred turkey patterns, Bottomland, Breakup Country and Obsession. This is no ordinary neck tube, with its four-way stretch straight bottom, superior wicking properties and treated with Silvadur…

New Record Bow-Buck For Twiggs County

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…

Rome City Limit Striped Bass

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…

12-Point “Doc” Officially Ben Hill County’s Best Buck Ever

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…

88 Year Old Deer Hunter Not Slowing Down

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…

Art Rilling: An Officer, A Gentleman And A Georgia Icon

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…

Cumberland Island Deer & Hog Hunts

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 Issue

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…

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