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Hunting
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 what was happening. 20 Years Ago: October 1991 • Shot-In-The Foot Hunt Accident Awards: During the 1990 season, there were 94 hunting accidents recorded in Georgia. Included among them were…
By Sean Childers I along with Spence Price and Brian Cantel have enjoyed more than 20 years of friendship, and we all share a mutual love of the outdoors. As young hunters, we each spent countless hours with our dads and granddads hunting whitetail deer in the Georgia Piedmont. The time spent with family in our…
Cpl. Freddie Hays and Ranger First Class Billy Bryant were on routine night patrol at about 11:45 p.m. last Oct. 23 when they encountered a pair of poachers doing something a little out of the ordinary. The officers were patrolling Clybel WMA, at the Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center in Jasper County, when they saw a…
One Million Dollars. It does have a ring to it. That is the amount of money King America Finishing has agreed to spend to make up for killing 38,634 fish in the Ogeechee River in May, according to a consent order entered into between King America, a textile plant, and Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division (EPD)…
“Onts a checkout!” OK. The blurted news from Ol’ Jake set my mind to whirling. And since I had a rough understanding of his language, I began to try and pick the phrase apart, reassemble the pieces and make some sense of it. That he wanted something was evident not only by the “onts” — his…
By Steve Schneider On the eve of the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 50 active duty servicemen, veterans and children of soldiers killed in action were honored by FCA Outdoors at a Fishing for Freedom outing on Lake Ramona in Paulding County. Sunny skies and cool temperatures greeted the soldiers and…
By Kyle Wall My brother and I had an interesting encounter on his trail camera in Baldwin County. I have pictures that show a pack of coyotes that actually kill a deer on camera. I have two pictures of the small buck alive. Twenty minutes later, the same buck is dead in front of…
Show Some Love For Juggers And Hornyhead Chubs Dear GON, I recently have become more involved with freshwater fishing than I have in the past years. I have always been an avid trout fisherman, but as the years pass I am finding that I enjoy angling for other species of freshwater fish. These new…
Allatoona is a great lake for catching spotted bass — and largemouths — in October. Long known as one of the best lakes for catching numbers of small spotted bass, Allatoona also yields some quality bass. And this time of year in particular, your catch can include some good largemouths. The lake is full of baitfish,…
Ever wonder how folks end up on the GON cover? Mark Wilkins, of Buckhead, will tell you all it takes is a phone call. But first you have to kill a cover buck. Mark hunted his 129 6/8-inch Pope & Young buck for more than a year before arrowing it the second afternoon of bow…
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