Sow To Good Soil

By Blake Hamby My wife and I bought 26.5 acres of raw, grown-up, old hunting club land to eventually build our house on. With mostly planted pines with tons of undergrowth, we began cleaning and clearing with the dream of one day living there and having a place my boys could grow up on.  Fast…

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Letters To The Editor: January 2023

Tommy Kirkland Photos Inspire Dear GON, Although I see wildlife photos in every GON, I have rarely thought about what it takes to capture the image of a turkey gobbling, a bass jumping out of the water or a mature buck making a rub. Two things I know it takes is time and someone devoted…

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Terrell County 170-inch Buck

By Don Cheek I am 73 years old now and I’ve been a hunter since I was 8 years old, but I had the hunting thrill of a lifetime on Nov. 21, 2021. My regular hunting partner of more than 40 years, John Patton, and I had been seeing a massive-racked buck that looked to…

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Brother & Sister Take First Deer On Same Day

By Mark Malueg Both of my kids, William and Hannah, started to show an interest in 2020 to hunt with me and try and get their first deer. On the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 24, William was sitting in a buddy stand with my father about 250 yards from where I was sitting in my…

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Letters To The Editor: December 2022

  Timber Rattler Relocation Goes Smoothly, But…  Dear GON, While hunting my ladder stand with blackpowder the Friday before gun season, I saw where I could make it a lot more comfortable. So after lunch, my brother Michael and I went back over to the stand and found at the bottom of the ladder one…

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A Georgian’s First Elk Hunt

By John Holbert Jonah and I both drew either-sex muzzleloader tags for Colorado elk this fall. Neither of us had undertaken such a challenge before, and we were eager to try. We spent all summer researching, preparing, packing and training for the safari. The rut forecast predicted we would have good timing to see some…

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