Posts by Brad Gill
Realtree Kids Scrapbook – November 2021
GON’s Trophy Room – November 2021
Since Georgia Outdoor News magazine started in 1987, we have continuously enjoyed sharing the accomplishments of others. Some months we’ll receive hundreds of pictures of happy hunters and anglers every year who just want to share their accomplishments. We are truly blessed that so many loyal Georgians think enough of GON to share with us…
Read MoreA Lesson In Shotgun Humility
Middle school football season is about gone, but I did hear another good one the other evening. Lady No. 1 says to Lady No. 2 that our team had just made it inside the “red zone,” even sharing that NFL announcers refer to teams being inside the red zone all the time. The ball was…
Read MorePrimitive-Weapons, Youth Firearms Starts Saturday
It’ll be a bit noisier Saturday morning in the Georgia deer woods compared to the previous four weeks as the primitive-weapons and youth-only firearms deer seasons begin. This concurrent season will last from Oct. 9-15, and during that time youth under 16 years of age may hunt deer with any legal deer firearm. These hunting…
Read MoreDream Trip To Adventure Outdoors
Last month we told you Holden Hines won the GON Youth Shoot-Out at the Outdoor Blast. The 14-year-old from Macon wasted little time in getting up to Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna to make good on the $3,000 shopping spree that he won. Holden chose a Beretta shotgun and a Christensen Arms rifle, two prizes that’ll…
Read MoreRealtree Kids Scrapbook – October 2021
Girl Arrows Two Deer With One Shot
During these crazy days when people don’t want to work and grocery stores are often waiting on the next truck to dock with food or employees to stock the shelves, it’s not a bad idea to get the freezer full of venison. Ava Morgan, 13, of Wray, got pro-active in meat collecting on Oct. 1…
Read MoreGirls Trap Too!
What image comes to mind when you think about a really good trapper? Robert Redford playing Jeremiah Johnson, and Tom Oar from the History Channel’s Mountain Men series. Rough, tough and gruff. Men of few words and all business. Yep, that’s my trapper. Not so fast, Brad… It has been brought to my thick skull that…
Read MoreGON’s Trophy Room – October 2021
Since Georgia Outdoor News magazine started in 1987, we have continuously enjoyed sharing the accomplishments of others. Some months we’ll receive hundreds of pictures of happy hunters and anglers every year who just want to share their accomplishments. We are truly blessed that so many loyal Georgians think enough of GON to share with us…
Read MoreGive The Kid Some Rope And Hush Your Mouth
More thoughts from the middle-school football bleachers. Have you ever seen those fanatical parents on the sidelines, the ones who would make a child-development professor cringe? I’ve watched parents holler at their kids through four very long quarters of play… as in every single play. I never quite figured out if they didn’t trust the…
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