Posts by Daryl Kirby
Ducks Numbers At All-Time Highs
The later the better, that’s how some duck hunters view the often painful wait for birds to show up in Georgia. This year might be one of those rare seasons when waiting will mean missing out on some good duck hunting. Greg Balcom, a WRD senior wildlife biologist and our state waterfowl biologist, is expecting…
Read MoreWin Big With GON’s Truck-Buck Contest
Every season we hear some sad stories from longtime GON subscribers who forgot to renew their memberships… “First time in 10 years I let my subscription run out…” You know what happened next. They killed the biggest buck of their lives, and that dream of taking part in the Truck-Buck contest, the pageantry of the…
Read More3-Time State Duck-Calling Champ Crowned
Clint Shipman won his third—and likely final—Georgia state duck-calling championship by topping a tough field of nine of the state’s elite competition duck callers. The event was held July 27 during GON’s Outdoor Blast at the Gwinnett Center. After a third state title, there is an unwritten but widely followed rule that duck callers don’t…
Read MoreTruck-Buck Contest Is Back! Win a Truck!
GON just gave away another 4×4 Chevy pickup truck to a deer hunter. It’s become a Georgia hunting tradition—the Truck-Buck contest with weekly winners all through deer season and a grand-prize Shoot-Out the next summer… and somebody driving home from the Shoot-Out in a new truck. Or, as was the case last year, riding home…
Read More10-Year Deer Management Plan Revealed
The draft plan for managing Georgia’s deer herd for the next 10 years, “Georgia’s Deer Management Plan 2015-2024, was released Aug. 1. How does the plan address deer populations, bag limits, season dates, baiting, coyotes and other issues key to sportsmen? What’s a Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP), and how will it function and be…
Read More11 1/2-lb. Bass Bought By Tournament Anglers
A pair of anglers in a July 12 bass-club tournament at Banks Lake bought an 11 1/2-lb. bass and presented it for the tourney weigh-in. They might have even gotten away with it, but apparently the agreed-upon price for the fish changed when the pair didn’t win as much money as they thought they would.…
Read MoreVelvet Buck Poached, Reward Offered
Imagine the emotions felt by area landowners and hunters when word got out that a beautiful buck, still in velvet and still growing a super set of antlers, was shot and killed by a poacher. Anger, frustration, heartache… did we mention anger? According to DNR’s Law Enforcement Division (LED), the buck was shot by a…
Read MoreScott Fox Outlasts Field To Win Chevy 4×4 Truck No. 25!
The 25th annual Truck-Buck Shoot-Out saw what may have been the most accurate field of shooters in the history of the event. Seven shooters made it to the seventh round and shot at the egg from 60 feet. In the end, it was Scott Fox who took home the grand-prize truck. Scott’s cheering section, easily…
Read MoreWRD To Reveal 10-Year Deer Plan
Wonder what the plan will be to set deer limits, doe days, season dates and address the different regs for different parts of the state? Speak now, or forever hold your peace… at least when it comes to the quality of your deer hunting in Georgia for the next 10 years. The Wildlife Resources Division…
Read MoreGet Your Georgia Gator
From the start, when a season was established in 2003, a permit to hunt a Georgia alligator has been a hot-ticket item. The number of permits available has risen over the past decade from 180 that first year to 850 now, but the number of permits available is still a drop in the bucket compared…
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