The Flip-A-Coin Buck

In those days we were green as grass and very naive as to the ways of big bucks, but what we lacked in experience we more than made up for in determination and the sheer love of hunting. The rolling farm property we were hunting 50 miles south of Atlanta was prime for seeing a…

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The Sable Bucks Of Black Bog Swamp Part 3

“We were all stunned,” Uncle Wiley told Cougar as he continued his story. “We were in shock. J.L. had always kept himself in excellent physical condition, and he was only 62. If we had only known about the blood clot we could have saved him. Jimbo got emergency leave and came home. He and Vickie…

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The 1957 Ralph Avant Buck From Jones County

These days, the discovery of a fine old trophy whitetail in Georgia from yesteryear is about as rare as finding an honest politician. But it does still happen, and it’s always exciting to see what history has yet to uncover. When I got a phone call from Warren Wright telling me he had an old…

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The Sable Bucks Of Black Bog Swamp – Part 2

“You sure Jimbo never said anything to you about the farm?” Uncle Wiley asked. “Yes sir. He never talks about the farm, but Cooter and I have always known there was something there, something maybe he wasn’t telling us about. Just like he never talks about what happened in Iraq.” “Well, Iraq is a sore…

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The Sable Bucks Of Black Bog Swamp

The slow light of the new morning was just beginning to reveal the close-cropped openness of the three-acre field planted in bright green winter wheat. Continuous wind gusts were causing colorful poplar and maple leaves to rain down along the edge of the field like odd yellow snowflakes. The day was cold and blustery in…

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Story Of Georgia’s No. 1 Typical Bow-Buck

In late October of 2018, Manny Kaloyannides had a long way to go and a short time to get there in his quest for one of the greatest bucks to ever walk the earth in DeKalb County. In the end, Manny’s strong faith and determination, not to mention an agonizing decision that had to be…

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We’ve Lost Okefenokee Joe

In April 2022, I had a booth selling books at the Blue Ridge Trout Festival in Blue Ridge. The popular one-day event had been put off for a couple of years because of Covid, and I was excited to see it return. Lo and behold, while I was setting up my booth, a man in…

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Gary Hall’s No. 1 Cohutta WMA Buck

No one expected nearly three inches of snow on the ground on the morning of Nov. 29, 1976, but in the Cohuttas, anything goes. Gary Hall, of Ringgold, along with his two companions, Jim Alsobrook and Daniel Atwood, were spaced out across a steep wooded ridge that had been clearcut on two sides. The three…

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Cohutta Dream Hunt For A 150-Class Buck

Packing into the Cohutta Wilderness to hunt deer is not for the faint of heart. Even today, with all the high-tech gadgets we hunters like to tote into the woods, backpacking into a vast, rugged wilderness area to hunt remote mountain bucks is a serious challenge. Forty years ago it was much more than a…

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Chronicles Of A Turkey Guide Part 3

Dawn came slowly on Sunday morning. The forecast called for early morning showers moving through the area and clear skies by 9 a.m. The air was thick, and Julian could smell the coming rain. It was cloudy, overcast and misting rain when they left the lodge around 5 a.m.  Julian took Anderson Burke to a…

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