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Spy-Cam October 2020

Email your trail-cam pictures to [email protected]. Please include your name, GON subscriber number, hometown, county where the picture was taken, date, time and any interesting details for a caption. Print images can be mailed to GON Spy-Cam, 4331 Seven Islands Road, Madison, GA 30650.            

Briefly October 2020

First Oconee County Deer Hunt The very first day of deer hunting in Oconee County when a season re-opened in 1971 worked out fantastic for Mac Hayes, of Watkinsville. Here’s a photo of Mac with a 10-pointer and a huge 8-pointer from that 1971 inaugural hunt. Thank you to GON member David Hayes for sending…

Georgia’s Top Big Buck Counties 2020

The numbers have been crunched, and the Top-3 counties in Georgia for big-buck production remain the same—Worth, Lee and Dougherty are the best of the best. The No. 4 and 5 counties swapped spots, with Fulton edging past Macon County as the No. 4 ranked county in Georgia for big bucks recorded in the past…

Lake Seminole Gator Goes 13-2, Killed In Last Minutes Of Hunt

By Zach Cole For someone who has never had the pleasure of filling an alligator tag, much less drawing one, the 2020 alligator season is going to be a hard one for me to beat. I have been applying for gator tags for five or six years now, and this year I wagered it all.…

Cornball Construction On The Dove Field

What in the Siamese cathair is that? Hmmm. Looks like an overgrown duck blind growed onto the back of a pickup truck. Which, by the way, has no business occupying its present location. And it ain’t duck season. And even iffen it was, we wouldn’t be chasing them in the middle of a cut cornfield…

Traditions Part 3

By Brandon Adams and John Seginak   Bam Bam Two doors slammed shut down along the old two-track road, and the two men looked at each other in silence. They both eased over and looked down the ridge toward the road. They could see Harold Smith and Bo Thompson talking by the truck. “Junior, you…

Letters To The Editor October 2020

              GON Mathews Bow Winner Shares Some Deer Fruit Dear GON, I just wanted to thank you again for starting GON and doing so much for Georgia hunters! This year I got to go on an out-of-state hunt for the first time to South Dakota. I was able to…

Christmas In October

Now.. now.. I know we’re still a few months away from Christmas trees, gingerbread houses and jolly old Saint Nick, but there’s no reason to wait for Christmas to come to you. Now is the time to go to Christmas, Christmas Creek that is. If there’s a better place to load down the boat during…

BF Grant Poachers Shoot Fawn At Night From Car Sunroof

B.F. Grant WMA: A significant amount of the time and effort put in by DNR Law Enforcement Division officers occurs on state lands, such as Parks and WMAs. An example of why that’s important took place the evening of Sept. 22, 2018 at B.F. Grant WMA. This quality-managed area offers popular quota hunts during firearms…

Wild In The Kitchen: Grilled Orange Glazed Dove

I agree that dove breasts wrapped in bacon and grilled are pretty danged good. Here’s a different approach using whole doves that I think you will like. 15 whole doves 2 tablespoons peanut oil 4 large oranges, juiced Zest of 1 orange 1 tbsp. rosemary, chopped 2 tbsp. honey Salt Black pepper Pluck the doves,…

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