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The Darden Dove Shoot in Taliaferro County raised $10,000 for SEEDS at its Sept. 17 shoot. This was the sixth consecutive year Claibourne Darden, a public-opinion pollster from Atlanta, has hosted the annual dove shoot on his field. The shoot continues to fund SEEDS, the youth arm of the GONetwork. The shoot is very popular…
When the bullet hit, the animal buckled from the sting and went crashing back into the jungle of reed cane. Ten yards inside, running wide open, it came to the edge of a sharp-dropping creek bank. Not able to stop, it went crashing down the bank and hit a sharp boulder on the opposite bank,…
It may not be Georgia’s new state record alligator, but without a doubt it is one of the largest hunter-killed gators ever taken in the state. With two separate measurements reported on a Eufaula gator killed opening morning, there was a little bit of confusion on what the official measurement would be. There was some…
It’s tightening up at the top of GON’s rankings of Georgia counties for their big-buck production. Topping the list for years with scores that approached 200 points were Dooly and Macon, neighboring counties along the Flint River long known for being the best trophy-buck counties in the state. The latest numbers have been crunched, and…
For some of us, it’s just too dang hot to get serious about bowhunting the second week of September in Georgia, but we’ve been blessed with some stellar mornings and unseasonably cool temperatures this season. Comfortable conditions show in the results — lots of deer seen and some nice bucks killed. The month’s reports from our…
Georgia deer hunters killed a pile of deer last season. You’d have to go all the way back to 1997 to rival the estimated 464,000 deer that hunters took out of the woods last year. It was an 18 percent increase in harvest over the 2009 season and continues the trend of growing hunter and…
Feeling patriotic, or maybe you’re ready to heat up the shotgun barrel getting after some pheasants? Best case, both of those are true, because there’s a special event coming to Henry County. On Nov. 4-5, High Point Quail Shooting Preserve in Locust Grove is hosting a pheasant hunt for veterans who were wounded while serving…
The textile plant that caused a massive fish kill on the Ogeechee River in May will be forced to pay $1 million for environmental improvements in the area and will also be subject to stricter monitoring of its wastewater discharge into the river. On Sept. 21, Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division (EPD) announced that King America…
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