Letters To The Editor – June 2019

Duncan Does It Again    Dear GON, Hats off to Duncan Dobie for his story “The Shotgun” that you published in your magazine. Duncan is a master story teller and a wonderful person that everyone should meet. Keep ’em coming, Duncan! We love ’em! Hoyt Brown, Murphy, N.C.   West Point’s Up and Down Lake…

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Spy-Cam May 2019

Email your pics to [email protected]. Please include your name, GON subscriber number, hometown, county where the picture was taken, date, time and any interesting details for a caption. Print images can be mailed to GON Spy-Cam, 4331 Seven Islands Road, Madison, GA 30650.

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Hunter’s Journal: Inspirational Gobbler After Stroke

By Nicole Hilliard This is the story of the unrelenting drive of a true hunter. Jeff Akins is truly an inspiration to all who have grown up in the great outdoors. Jeff resides in Raleigh, N.C. and lived a seemingly healthy life until the unspeakable happened. Jeff suffered a massive stroke during the prime of…

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Letters To The Editor – May 2019

Want To Grow Turkeys? Then Quit Shooting 3 Gobblers!    Dear GON, I would like to comment on the lack of turkeys in the state and the prior articles written in the GON. First, I want it to be clear for the record that in order for a hen turkey to lay a fertilized egg,…

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Hunter’s Journal: A Gobbler For Dad

By David Blan My father, Bruce Blan, went turkey hunting for the first time on opening day in 1992. Twenty six seasons and countless heartbreaks later, he finally killed his first gobbler. My dad has hunted with some of the best turkey hunters I know and has been on several guided hunts, but no one…

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GON Member Captures Youth Turkey Hunt On Video

Tallyn Judy, of Loganville, harvested his first turkey on March 16 in Haralson County. The 9-year-old was hunting with his dad Jeremy and his papaw Dennis, who is a seasoned and successful turkey hunter with a World Slam under his belt. “The turkeys came in from behind us gobbling very little, but we could hear…

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