Posts by Brad Gill
WRD Seeks Input On Future Hunting Regulations
Every two years, Georgia’s Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) hosts a series of public meetings to get hunter input prior to making hunting-regulation proposals for the upcoming hunting seasons. The next round of these public meetings will be for the 2015-2017 hunting regulations. Meeting dates will take place Jan. 5-8 at 7 p.m. each night. Those…
Read More10-Year-Old Smacks A Giant Georgia Buck
A 150-class buck is special, but when a 10-year-old kid is the hunter, it becomes water-cooler chatter. The lucky hunter was Randal Holder (aka Boom), of Hawkinsville, and he killed the big buck on Thanksgiving morning in Houston County. He was hunting with his dad Doug. “Back at the beginning of the 2014 season, Boom…
Read MoreDon’t Forget December is Buck-Only For Most Hunters
If you haven’t got your venison in the freezer yet, you may have messed up. For most Georgia hunters, Dec. 1-25 will be buck-only hunting. And if you’re relying on the few days after Christmas to put some meat up, good luck. Hunting gets tough by then. There are exceptions to the buck-only days in…
Read MoreJoe Kurz Buck Recovery Helps Hunter Through Difficult Time
It makes this GON editor smile knowing that we played even just a minor part in a hunter recovering his deer, while helping him through a very difficult period in his life. Justin Simpson, of Social Circle, was drawn to hunt the first 2014 quota hunt at Joe Kurz WMA. He was hunting on Oct.…
Read MoreSquirrel Numbers Way Down In Mountains
As the fall rolls on, more and more hunters will begin to shift their thoughts from deer hunting to other things, like squirrel hunting. However, this change in thinking comes with a problem, at least if you’re a mountain hunter. Squirrel populations in northwest and northeast Georgia are at the lowest they’ve been since 1968,…
Read MoreGiant Buck From Piedmont NWR
A giant, 16-point buck has been killed at Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge. The hunter, Joey Bickford, of Valdosta, was drawn for the Nov. 6-8 either-sex quota hunt. On the afternoon of Nov. 6, Joey got in the tree at about 3 p.m. “Joey had been in his stand about 30 minutes when he heard something…
Read MoreClarks Hill Bassin’ in November Centers Around The Bait
Clarks Hill largemouth are a different breed. I was there a couple of weeks ago with Jon Hair, a regular on the tournament scene on this east Georgia reservoir, and we had a blast on an 85-degree afternoon catching topwater schoolies in 50 feet of water over hydrilla beds. There was no difficulty when it…
Read MoreFisherman Rescued From Lake Allatoona
According to Larry Parris, of Acworth, it was divine intervention that a local fisherman was rescued from the chilly Lake Allatoona waters on Oct. 20. Larry, (Crappiepappy on the GON web forum), his wife, Carol, and Stewart Wright (Crappieking), of Euharlee, were fishing for crappie below Little River at about 1:30 p.m. Larry and his…
Read MoreThe Longest Drag
Some of my fondest hunting memories have come when pursing deer and hogs a mile or more from the truck. My most recent memory is from Altamaha WMA, where I spent several days hunting hogs a few Octobers ago. Between six of us, we hauled 15 hogs out of the woods, with the longest pull…
Read MoreDarden Dove Shoot Gets A Visit From An American Hero
As expected, this annual dove shoot had plenty of shooting and a number of limits, but it was a visit from an American hero that made the day so special for the roughly 100 in attendance. Three Star Marine Corps General E.R. “Buck” Bedard with the United States Marine Corps (USMC) made the trip from…
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