Posts by Daryl Kirby
Truck-Buck 2019-20: Week 5 Winner, Reid Diers
Week 5: Reid Diers, 139 3/8 typical County: Colquitt Date: Oct. 15 The fifth week of last deer season was the primitive-weapons week, which is now also the Youth week, where kids 15 and younger can use a modern rifle. The winner of this week was Reid Diers, of Norman Park, who earned a new…
Read MoreTruck-Buck 2019-20: Week 4 Winner, Kayla Pitts
Week 4: Kayla Pitts, 167 1/8 non-typical County: Houston Date: Oct. 11 GON has been around quite a while, long enough there’s lots of history in these pages. Take Kayla Pitts for example. She’s now 30, but many GON people still remember the August 2009 Truck-Buck Shoot-Out when a 19-year-old Kayla all but won a…
Read MorePandemics, Governors, And Online Deer Records
The past two months were interesting. A tip of the cap to GON’s staff—there’s just seven of them—who did what was asked and needed. Like lots of small businesses, we knew it would take extraordinary effort during an extraordinary time, and it is because of them you are reading the June 2020 issue of Georgia…
Read MoreTruck-Buck 2019-20: Week 3 Winner, Darrell Hudson
Week 3: Darrell Hudson, 147 0/8 typical County: Upson Date: Oct. 4 To know there’s a huge buck on your property, but you don’t hunt him for weeks because the wind is wrong— that takes resolve and patience many hunters just don’t possess. Darrell Hudson faced it last season. “I’ve been a longtime GON guy,”…
Read MoreTruck-Buck 2019-20: Week 2 Winner, Kevin Carnes
Week 2: Kevin Carnes, 140 7/8 typical County: Cobb Date: Sept. 22 Kevin Carnes, of Atlanta, already had some awesome suburban bucks to his credit before the 2019-2020 season, including a 2015 buck that netted 195 2/8 non-typical. That’s one of only eight Georgia bow-bucks to ever score high enough to qualify for the all-time…
Read MoreTruck-Buck 2019-20: Week 1 Winner, Ann Lester
Week 1: Ann Lester, 145 2/8 typical County: Macon Date: Sept. 14 Ann Lester, a 24-year-old from Macon County near the small town of Ideal, was bowhunting on opening morning of bow season last Sept. 14. “I got up the stand and was setting up. About 10 minutes after climbing up, I saw him walk…
Read MoreSlab Tops 3 Pounds To Set Bartletts Ferry Crappie Record
Mickey Peacock has been chasing crappie across Georgia for more than 50 years, and he finally got his giant slab—a black crappie that on certified scales weighed 3.09 pounds. The 71-year-old angler from Lizella caught the huge crappie on April 17 while fishing Bartletts Ferry. Bartletts Ferry, also known as Lake Harding, is a 5,850-acre…
Read MoreDealing With The Virus… Works Best From Bottom Up
It still feels like we’re waiting on the alarm to go off to end a nightmare. Or, depending on your perspective, maybe parts of this have been more like a dream. This virus is deadly serious, potentially from a health standpoint and for certain economically. But maybe for some folks this warped reality the past…
Read MoreGeorgia Hunting And Fishing Not Banned By Shelter In Place Order
Hunting and fishing in Georgia have not been canceled. Governor Brian Kemp’s announcement yesterday that the entire state of Georgia goes under a “Shelter In Place” directive beginning tomorrow, Friday, April 3, has many asking what that means exactly. While everyone is strongly discouraged from doing so, the order does not completely prohibit you from…
Read MoreWhite County’s Best Buck Ever Taken By A Hunter
The new No. 1 hunter-killed buck from White County is a big 10-pointer killed last season by Charles Allison, of Cleveland, that netted 156 even. While it’s the best buck ever killed by a hunter in White County, Charles ranks No. 2 on GON’s all-time White County Deer Records because our all-time records include pick-up…
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