Truck-Buck Scoring Results 2024-25 Season

It took two weekends, a trip to Tifton and one to Madison, and some pretty dedicated manpower to keep the wheels oiled and moving, but GON measured 198 bucks last month to figure out who’s going to join us for GON’s showcase event of the year, the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out at the Ag-Pro GON Outdoor Blast…

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Youth Big-Buck Contest Scoring Results 2024-25 Season

GON measured 59 racks from youth hunters 15 and younger during our scoring events last month. The objective for these young GON subscribers—or dependents of GON subscribers—was to have the highest scoring buck in whatever week they had their deer entered. Winning their week moves them on to the GON Youth Big-Buck Shoot-Out at the…

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11-Pounder In ABA Tournament!

Peyton Dunn, of Fitzgerald, won the ABA-AFT Division 25 tournament on Lake Hartwell on March 16. He weighed in 21.16 pounds. What was really exceptional about his bag of fish was that it was anchored by an 11.03-lb. largemouth. “To my knowledge, it’s the biggest bass weighed in on tournament scales for Hartwell,” said Peyton.…

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WMA Turkey Special

Georgia turkey hunters are fixing to enter year No. 4 with a shorter turkey season and a bag limit of two toms, down from a three-bird limit prior to the 2022 season. WMA hunters continue to find themselves with a short window to roll a gobbler, not being allowed to hunt until one week after…

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Rate Your Deer Season Survey

The 2024-25 Georgia deer season ratings didn’t change much from the 2023-24 season, with again more than 25 percent of hunters claiming “Excellent” deer seasons. This is a far cry from 10 years ago when just 10.7 percent of hunters rated their 2015-16 deer seasons as Excellent. However, last season was not all a bed…

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41 Wild Hogs Caught—At Once!

Twenty years ago if you had wild hog problems, some would go through the paperwork hoopla and then hope to shoot a few after dark over bait. Others would find a heavy-duty trap and hope to catch a few more than one at a time. With the invention of net-style traps, like the Pig Brig…

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44 New Fish Added To GON’s Record List

For the third consecutive year, 44 new fish were added to GON’s Georgia Lake and River Records list. In the past, GON has published these exclusive fish records in the February issue, but we’ve moved them into the January issue to help kick-start off the new year as we start collecting new records for 2025.…

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