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Scrapbook – September 2024

Send photographs to [email protected] and please include name, subscriber number, hometown, county, date and details.                                           Send photographs to [email protected] or mail to PO Box 1589, Watkinsville, GA 30677. Include name, subscriber number, hometown, county,…

Tips To Avoid Losing Bow-Shot Deer

Beginning Sept. 14, thousands of bowhunters will enter the Georgia woodlands in hopes of arrowing a whitetail deer. Some will be successful, most will not, and a few will suffer the agony of sticking a deer and not being able to recover it. Drawing blood but not finding a deer is one of the most…

About That Climate Change

  Except for irate wives, unreasonable game wardens and “didn’t get in ‘til 3 a.m.” hangovers, nothing affects an outdoorsman’s success more than the weather. And since all hunters and fishermen know this, they are probably concerned about the political and media hysteria surrounding “climate change.” Let me explain quickly. “Weather” is short-term local atmospheric…

Houston County BOC Denies 4,700-Acre Solar Farm

The Houston County Board of Commissioners recently disapproved an application that would have allowed Silicon Ranch solar company to place panels on a 4,700-acre tract adjacent to Oaky Woods WMA. Citing quality of living, property values, Georgia lawsuits against Silicon Ranch and wildlife habitat, the board unanimously voted against adding a solar farm to the…

Southeast Georgia Fishing Reports With Capt. Bert Deener – Aug. 30 2024

The fish are starting to move out of their summer patterns and move around more. It can be good and bad. It’s good because they feed better than in their mid-summer mode, but it’s sometimes hard to find them in the fall. Altamaha/Ocmulgee River:– My prediction in last week’s report about the Ocmulgee was correct.…

Letters To The Editor: September 2024

Young Lady Qualifies For Second Shoot-Out Dear GON, We just want to take time and say thank you to all involved at GON. We have been lucky to be a part of the Shoot-Outs twice so far. When our daughter was 10 years old, she shot her first buck, which was a 10-pointer that scored…

Doublin’ Up In Walton County

By David Boone On Sept. 18, 2023 my son Caleb Boone and I headed out for an afternoon archery hunt on our lease in Walton County. My father Buddy Boone and I had just hung a lock-on tree stand the week before on a spot where Caleb had an encounter with a large, main-frame 8-point from…

How To Find A Buck & Win A Truck

It’s easy. To think that it’s easy, that is. Why, these pages are fair packed with rocking-chair-racked whitetails almost every month. And we all know of the rookie—or his wife—who nearly tripped over the trophy of a lifetime and hauled it home in a pal’s pickup. Nothing to this big buck business, right? David Shepard…

Coyotes Attack Monroe County Jogger

Each month we turn back the clock to see what was being reported in the pages of GON—30, 20 and 10 years ago. Here’s a look back at stories that appeared in GON. 20 Years Ago: Coyotes Attack Monroe County Jogger: It’s like something you’d see on the 1990s TV series When Animals Attack! A…

Man Shoots Deer Out Of Season For Deer Warts

Each month we turn back the clock to see what was being reported in the pages of GON—30, 20 and 10 years ago. Here’s a look back at stories that appeared in GON. 30 Years Ago: The photos in this story were sent in by an anonymous person 30 years ago. It was of a…

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