Rabbit Hunting Characters

By James K. Pressley A well-thought-out and properly planned rabbit hunt is a thing of beauty. It has several major parts, and they must all be taken seriously. If you slack off or miss one of these, the hunt will suffer and your standing in the group will drop.  The Group: You need a solid…

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Gobbler Quest For The Rest

By Deborah Wallace Having accomplished our Grand Slam for turkeys in the United States, my husband Paul and I went to Mexico to pursue the World Slam by hunting the Gould’s turkey. We arrived in Hermosillo, Sonora where we spent the night.  We were picked up the following morning by our guide, Nigel, for a…

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Hunter’s Journal – January 2022

By Den Holder Growing up in the time before the internet, without cable TV and before cell phones inspired me to find the outdoors as a place of enjoyment. I can’t remember my first fishing trip or first hunting trip because I was too young. I spent every moment I could outside. I have hunted…

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Letters To The Editor – January 2022

Fiction Story A Great Tribute To Glen Solomon Dear GON, Just finished The Trembling in the December 2021 issue of GON. It was another great fall fiction series. At the end, Craig bumped my heart with his note that it was written in memory of the great outdoorsman writer Glen Solomon. I will never forget…

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Appling Buck Falls Pushing Does

By Adam Shaw On a logging road I’ve traveled 100 times, I noticed multiple fresh scrapes along a treeline. On the evening of Oct. 9, I decided to hang a climber with my bow in range of two scrapes. The next morning it was 70 degrees, and I got in my climber 30 minutes before…

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Hunter’s Journal – December 2021

By Justin Tucker Holland Since I was little, I have always enjoyed taking my friends hunting and just being able to see the way they enjoy everything about it. Guiding hunts and teaching youth about how to hunt and respect nature has got me hooked on everything about it. And I have had some awesome…

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Letters To The Editor – December 2021

Special Permits For Deer Killing Needs More Does, Less Bucks Dear GON, I hope you can help get some changes made to the current special permits allowing farmers to shoot bucks.  I am on some leased property in Crawford County that has the potential for some nice deer to be taken from year to year,…

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