Get Rut Ready — A Coastal Kick-off

You know he’s out there, roaming around somewhere on the place. Ground sign here, trail-cam photo there, antlers everywhere… what’s it going to take for the two of you to meet up? He’s getting instinctively restless, is the buck, possibly not even realizing where these urges are coming from, but he is feeling the need…

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Jake’s Double Date

“Ye ain’t lissenin’! And if ye is ye ain’t soakin in what I’m a’ tryin’ to set out fer ye. Why, it’s purely foolproof!” I feel myself weakening; 59 minutes of being argued at by the oldest fool I know, and it’s hit or miss whether I live out the hour… “Jake, what I’m seeing…

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How To Find A Buck & Win A Truck

It’s easy. To think that it’s easy, that is. Why, these pages are fair packed with rocking-chair-racked whitetails almost every month. And we all know of the rookie—or his wife—who nearly tripped over the trophy of a lifetime and hauled it home in a pal’s pickup. Nothing to this big buck business, right? David Shepard…

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And The Winner Is…

Final conclusion: it’s y’all. Yep. After a month of sorting through all things 2024 Outdoor Blast, what I enjoyed most about the four-day (for me) honeycomb of hoopla was meeting and greeting our people: you. Thanks. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Which is highly doubtful. I’ve made this statement concerning Georgia…

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Finding Charlie

For years now, I’ve driven almost by the front door at least once a month. One of these days, I told myself… then rolled on. Friends in the passenger seat have urged me to stop and get this thing over with. One of these days… Yeah, I know it’s silly, I’d say, never lifting off…

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Clybel WMA Deer & Doves

You hunters know what it’s like Cadillacing along secluded dirt roads and fields. Despite the July heat waves even now shimmering across dew-glistening corn and clover, it’s but a matter of time before a whitetail pops up. And off to the right, moseying through a clearcut, there she is, sidling along without a care in…

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Don’t Get Attached

When one makes his living with words, betimes there be exclamations or comments or phrases that simply leap out and grasp at one. Happens to me all the time. Doesn’t even have to be spoken; printed clauses jump right off pages. Especially mispelt ’uns. So I’m roaming from room to room a few weeks ago,…

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Charlton County’s Chesser Island

It lies, does the old homestead, on an island of its own. A century old now but even at that little changed, it is surrounded by the vastness of the Okefenokee Swamp. The alligators know the place well, as do the bears, the hogs, the deer. But not as well as Joe Chesser. Looking back…

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Lanie Hutcheson Is Driven

So much to see, so much to do, so many places to go… When you’re 18 years old, expanding horizons is what you do. Not many, however, push toward new ones as steadfastly as Lanie Hutcheson. This extremely sharp, charismatic, vivacious—and BUSY—2023 Treutlen County High School graduate and current nursing program enrollee, who also maintains…

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As Large As You Like

He was a good friend of my good friends, so they told me. I’d never met the guy, but was about to. “He won’t know who you’re talking to if you call him by his real name, and it really don’t bother him when we pick at him about it, so just call him…” Well,…

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