Posts by Daryl Kirby
Eye on the Antis – December 2006
It is rather remarkable that there are folks who still believe that the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is an organization that runs the local animal shelters. HSUS is an anti-hunting juggernaut and the worst enemy sportsmen have ever faced. The animal-rights group’s bankroll is immense, much of it raised through donations from…
Read MoreHunting The Georgia Deer Rut
How do you kill a mature buck during the peak of the rut? Techniques and theories for hunting the rut abound. Hunt all day because bucks are on the move, hunt high in a place you can see a long distance, hunt where the does are feeding because they’ll attract a buck. Those techniques might…
Read MoreSound Alarm For Endangered WMAs
Like a pair of locomotives on a collision course, two disturbing trends in 2006 are picking up steam and plowing toward each other, and hunters are standing in the middle. If the trends continue, we are about to get squashed. At issue is hunting access. At stake is not only the incredibly rewarding recreation of…
Read MoreCatch That Buck Chasing!
Kids, work, traffic… kids… Is it getting more difficult to find time for that other passion — deer hunting? With our lives seemingly more busy each year, every opportunity to get out in the woods to spend a morning or evening in a stand is some- thing to be cherished. For those who just don’t…
Read MoreThe Santee Cooper Catfish Experience
There are hunting and fishing experiences that are talked about so often that they begin to tempt even a deep-rooted Georgian. Whitetails in Canada, doves in South America, catfish in South Carolina… Catfish? In South Carolina? Yes, for me it has long been the giant catfish of Santee Cooper that have been a temptation. Quite…
Read MoreGo For Gator!
Last summer when a gator permit arrived in the mailbox, a great, grand adventure was hatched. An endless night doing battle with a 10-foot beast fully capable of causing significant damage… and we’re now wise enough to understand that alligator hunting should not be a casual endeavor. If you’d like to read about that adventure,…
Read MoreEye on the Antis – June 2006
The U.S. Sportsmen’s Legal Defense Fund has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by anti-hunters that seeks to outlaw hunting on 37 units of the National Wildlife Refuge System. “The case is totally without merit,” said Rick Story, senior vice president for the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation, which manages the Sportsmen’s Legal…
Read MoreLiving On Largemouths At Lake Lanier
When the blueback herring took off in Lake Lanier and created a midday, heat-of-the-summer topwater bite for magnum spotted bass, I imagine there was a young angler all by himself, not another boat or a single jetski in sight, grinning like a possum eating persimmons. On the south end of Lanier, they are calling up…
Read MoreThe Coyote Factor
Editor’s Note: The following article was written in 2006, a time when state agencies and biologists were hesitant — at best — to say coyotes were impacting deer and other wildlife in Georgia. Although scientific research has not been completed on the subject, it seems clear that coyotes on certain tracts of land in Georgia…
Read MoreEye on the Antis – April 2006
A decade ago if you mentioned that hunters should be allowed on Georgia State Parks to deal with a serious ecological problem caused by too many deer, folks looked at you like you had two heads. Each time that GON brought the issue up, the responses ranged from a parks-aren’t-for-hunting attitude to flat-out denials that…
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