Posts by Daryl Kirby
Taking Kids Hunting
What to do with a crisp, beautiful Saturday in November… In our busy lives the options are endless: stay home, build a fire, and watch football. Then again, it’s prime time to see a mature buck, maybe slip back to the creek stand. Or maybe it’s opening day of duck season, and you’re just minutes…
Read MoreRussell Bass Bite Returns For Fall
The look exchanged by my fishing partner and I was one of surprise, almost shock… a “can you believe that” kind of look. It was late afternoon on a beautiful mid-October day on Lake Russell. What could we possibly have seen that was so surprising? It was another boat, the first and only boat we…
Read MoreRut Roh! Hunting When The Rut Is Dead
Want to kill a big buck? Simple, hunt the rut. That’s what you’ve been told year after year. Hunt high where you can see a long way, hunt all day, but most importantly, just hunt during the peak of the rut. Of course, deer hunting is not that easy, particularly when your sights are set…
Read MoreDuck Hunting Memories, Made In Georgia
About this time of year, thoughts of a sagging-bellied, wide-racked mature buck begin to wane for me. My neck starts to hurt from looking up, and my Georgia friends stop answering my phone calls. They know what I’m going to ask, “Seen any ducks?” My passion for duck hunting is fostered from a lineage straight…
Read MoreAnti-Hunting Messages In Our Schools
Quick quiz… what’s more frightening for the future of hunting and wildlife conservation? Is it that hunter numbers are falling in Georgia, and that the percentage of hunters under 34 years old gets smaller and smaller each year? Or, is it that animal-rights groups like PETA and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) are…
Read MoreSavvy Strategies For Deer Hunting Food Plots
Plant it, and they will come. Just make sure you don’t hunt it too much. If you do, or if you make some mistakes in how you hunt it, they may only come at night. Or they might stop coming at all. Deer and food plots… the idea of turning dirt and sowing seed for…
Read MoreBrooke! 13-Year-Old Wins 2005 Truck-Buck Shoot-Out
In one of the most-exciting finishes ever for the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out, youth was served yet again, and this time it was a 13-year-old young lady who out-shot everyone to win a brand-new pickup truck. Brooke Tomlin’s exciting victory was the third time in 16 Shoot-Outs that a youth 15 years old or younger has won…
Read MoreGeorgia Alligator Hunting Adventure
Folks who had been on an alligator hunt said it would be intense, unlike anything we had ever experienced. This time, folks were right. Releasing an arrow at a gator 10 feet from the jonboat at 1 a.m. was an adrenaline rush, to say the least. But that was only the beginning of an adventure…
Read MoreFab 40 Bucks Of 2004-05
After watching the 120-class, 8-point buck feed on peas for 20 minutes just 30 yards away, Phil Webb now had a sinking feeling as he watched the buck slowly walk directly away and out of the food plot. “That would have been my second-biggest buck ever. I had the safety on and off several times,” Phil…
Read MoreAmerica’s Priorities According To Animal-Rights
Folks are getting blown up in London, our young men and women face bullets and bombs every day in Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, there is a report of crab abuse in California. Crabs? The horrors in this world must stop. Please send money and please write letters. Civil disobedience may be needed, and if so,…
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