Posts by Daryl Kirby
VOTES Survey: Rate Your Deer Season, Turkey And Dove Regs
VOTES, which stands for Voice Of The Educated Sportsman, is a GON survey that has been around for more than two decades. A question on the survey each and every year is Rate Your Deer Season, which gives us county-specific ratings that can be compared to historical trends. We simply want to know how your…
Read MoreDeer Season Recap, Late-Season Tips
Another Georgia deer has flown by. The seasons certainly aren’t getting shorter—we have one of the longest in the country—it just seems that way when suddenly the days remaining are few. However, there’s still time to put some venison in the freezer, and a last-minute buck is never out of the question. Here are the…
Read MoreJust Do Good
The Hippocratic Oath all medical doctors must take and are supposed to abide by says, “First, do no harm.” A motto that GON Editor Brad Gill and I subscribe to here in making this magazine and all that goes with it is “Just do good.” Simple enough concept, really easy to say. But it’s not…
Read MoreBackyard Suburban Bruiser, Lost And Found
Tom Hunt has been a friend of GON for about as long as there’s been a GON. He’s appeared in the magazine quite a few times with big bucks, going back to the days when he was a key member of the TMI club in Talbot County. TMI stood for Trophy Management Inc., a tract…
Read MoreCarl Logan Passes After Brief Cancer Fight
Carl Logan Jr. was primary among a handful of men who, if it were not for them, there likely wouldn’t be a GON today. Carl was a fellow member at Marietta Bassmasters, a close friend, and an original investor who helped Steve Burch when Steve first started GON in the late 1980s. Just as Volume…
Read More200-Inch Southwest Georgia 17-Pointer
A monster Georgia buck has been killed, a 17-pointer with crazy thick mass and tines that look more like tree branches than antler points—including one growing out of its cheek right behind its eye. Clay Crawford has known about this buck since 2017 when he started getting trail-camera photos of the deer on the Early…
Read MoreAgainst All Odds, A Fulton County 165-Inch 12-Point Buck
The Atlanta suburbs strike again. Another bow-buck with a rack so wide and so tall that it just doesn’t seem possible deer get this big, much less in areas where ribbons and patches of woods are a tiny fraction of the landscape, where what little habitat there is gets squeezed and cut off more every…
Read More19-Point, 188-Inch Velvet Freak With A Crossbow
“It’s a good one.” In the understatement of the season, that’s how Philip Holt began the conversation when he got a call from GON about an amazing buck he killed yesterday, Nov. 25, in Houston County. Philip was hunting with a crossbow on a small tract of land in the city limits of Centerville when…
Read MoreInvestigation Continues In Case Of Teen Killed While Deer Hunting
An investigation is still ongoing into a tragic incident where a Glynn County teenager was shot and killed by a hunting companion who mistook him for a deer. Bobby Lane, 17, had gone deer hunting in woods off Myers Hill Road in Brunswick when he was shot by another hunter who had gone to the…
Read MoreAidan’s Hunt
Today is Aidan Proctor’s 12th birthday. When he and his twin sister were born at 25 weeks and weighed less than 2 pounds, Aidan wasn’t expect to see his fifth day. “He’s not supposed to be here. Doctors gave him zero percent chance,” said Aidan’s father, Donnie Proctor. The affects of his premature birth on…
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