Posts by Daryl Gay
Angry Beaver Interferes With Buck Recovery
Taxidermist Steve Ward knows a big deer when he sees one, and he’s picky when it comes to taking a shot. But as most deer hunters know, recognizing a really big buck takes only a moment. That’s a good thing for Ward, because a moment is all he had to make a trigger-pulling decision the…
Read MoreEvans County PFA Is Back Open For Business
Up-and-coming. Again. Perhaps that is the best way to describe Evans County PFA, one of Georgia’s oldest state-managed public fishing areas—which at the same time is also one of its newest. “This is one of the first public fishing areas the Department of Natural Resources opened up, back in the 1970s, when we first started…
Read MoreA Story Of Rescue As Four Hunters Pulled From Flooding Swamp
It is a frigid, pitch-black two o’clock in the morning as DNR Ranger Micheal Crawley calls instructions across the rolling Ogeechee River, flooded out of its banks and a mile wide in places throughout the dense surrounding swamp. After tense hours of searching, Crawley and a friend, Justin Tanner, have finally located four desperate hunters,…
Read MoreReds & Trout Limits On Georgia’s Lonely Coast
If there’s one thing a fisherman loves, it’s that quiet, tucked-away spot he can escape to all by his lonesome, with no competing boats buzzing by to bother his fish. Well, how about an ocean? The Georgia coastline, and beyond, can provide an overlooked fishing bonanza during the fall and winter months. Hunters are in…
Read MoreA Catch-All Saltwater Surprise Trip
Ever stood on a beach, looked out over the waves and asked, “I wonder what’s really swimming around out there?” Capt. David Newlin can help answer that question. For 34 years, Newlin has been taking fishermen out on both inshore and offshore excursions from Richmond Hill’s Kilkenny Marina, south of Savannah, for the best saltwater…
Read MoreFlat Creek PFA’s Limit-Out Bream Fishing
Public Fishing Area. OK, stop for a moment and erase all preconceived notions. You’re about to find out what a PFA is supposed to be—and how to make the most of it. Flat Creek State Park and Public Fishing Area lies just south of Perry in Houston County, hard by I-75. For the fisherman, it’s…
Read MoreThree Georgia Hunters Hospitalized From Incidents In The Deer Woods
Three Georgia deer hunters suffered severe injuries within a two-week span during primitive-weapons and rifle-season weekends. Two fell from tree stands—one climber and one ladder—and a third plunged 40 feet through the darkness down an unmarked well. Before daylight on Oct. 13, Donny Moore, 50, of Atlanta, was walking to a stand in Meriwether County…
Read MoreThe Left-Handed Gun
There is that within almost every man which draws him, Siren-like, helplessly through the doors of a pawn shop. No matter how run-down the outside of the pawn shop may be, the lure of possible hidden treasures within overcome any resistance, however feebly put up. Very seldom do I pass through a town, any town,…
Read MoreSeasons Are A’Changin’
You’d think maybe one day I’d grow up. Or, supposin’ you knew me better, one might surmise that my child-like demeanor is a byproduct of the fact that my IQ and shoe size are approximately the same set of numbers. But when it comes to hunting seasons, I’m worse’n a kid on Dec. 24. I…
Read MoreHuge Shooting Facility Opens In Blakely
The American International Marksmanship Academy, a 2,300-acre training facility offering courses to military, law enforcement and civilian shooters, celebrated its grand opening in Blakely on Oct. 13. A crowd of more than 400 turned out on a windy, rain-threatening Thursday afternoon to take part in dedication ceremonies that included remarks by several guests and tours…
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