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I have recently experienced a curious phenomenon. Since I have retired, my wife is getting more and more supportive of my outdoor sports activities. With each passing week, she encourages me to go fishing, hunting, camping, etc. at every opportunity. I thought maybe it was just my imagination, so, just testing, I said one day,…
Lee Ellis is no stranger to big deer, so when he got a trail-cam pic in 2012 of a 3-year-old buck that would easily clear 145, he got excited. Even then, the deer had tremendous brow tines, and thus the name Charlie Brows—a take-off of Charlie Brown—was given to this buck. Little did Lee know…
Vol. 30, No. 9 Rarely do hunters get to pursue a giant Georgia buck for multiple seasons. Read about Lee Ellis and his quest for a Cobb County buck named Charlie. Photo by Drew Carroll Articles available to paid GON subscribers September Feature Articles No hindsight ip unit displayed. 18 Georgia’s Best Bow Bucks…
By Daniel Carreker Sunset on Friday, Aug. 14, 2015 found me and my good friend, Nathan Mason, patrolling a Houston County body of water in search of a big alligator we had seen a few days earlier. I had drawn a coveted Georgia alligator tag, and the gator we had scouted was one well worth using…
We Appreciated The Family Atmosphere At The Blast! Dear GON, I wanted to thank the GON team for putting on the Blast and the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out. While my performance in the Shoot-Out was below my expectations as a shooter, the experience that my son Lee and I had at your event could not have been…
Each month we turn back the clock to see what was being reported in the pages of GON, both 20 and 10 years ago. Here’s a look back at what appeared in GON. 20 Years Ago: September 1996 GON Hits The Web!: A lot has changed in 20 years. Just read part of this story…
September — The Transition Eighteen-year-old Tyler James climbed the 12-foot wooden ladder stand that was positioned between the open hardwoods and the 20-year-old pines. It was opening day of bow season. Tyler anxiously watched and waited for a deer to make its way through the cut fence that he’d created back in July. All intentions…
The Georgia Hunting and Fishing Federation (GHFF) held its sixth-annual benefit hunt Aug. 5-6 at the United Fox Pen in Swainsboro. Over the past three years, this hunt has grown tremendously. This year the GHFF hosted its largest hunt yet, with 180 dogs. Without Ronnie McMillan, pen owner, and his two assistants, Larry Bundrum and…
Griffin Gravitt, 15, of Ashburn, wasted little time going to Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna with $3,000 in his pocket. Griffin was enjoying his big shopping spree less than 24 hours after winning GON’s Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out on July 29 at GON’s Outdoor Blast. “I got a new Browning A5 12-gauge shotgun, a Yeti Roadie…
West Point: Level: 2.8 below full pool. Temp: 85-90 degrees. Clarity: Very clear. Bass: Fair, reports guide Keith Hudson. “More of the same as we move into September. Expect the shallow bite to slowly improve, especially if we get a lot of rain or cooler temps. Shallow-water baits such as unweighted Trick Worms, flukes, Senkos,…
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