Letters To The Editor January 2017

Special Hunt With Popee In Laurens County Dear GON, Since I was a little boy, I have gone hunting with my grandfather Larry Roberts, who I call Popee. As a general contractor, he comes home with sweat on his back every day and frequently doesn’t get to see the weekend. He is not big into…

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Callie’s Path To A Hunter

By Johnnie Thompson & Brittany Reid Anderson A school teacher prepares his/her students for learning by first writing a lesson plan with objectives or standards, and each student is graded on knowledge retained based on a test. Likewise, parents teach from the knowledge of their own experiences that were handed down to them or from…

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Officers, Best Friends Get Their Gobbler

By Pat Womack This hunting adventure all started when I met John Seabolt after becoming a police officer in Covington in 1995. During my first couple of years there, I’d heard the guys talking about turkey hunting, and I was clueless because I had never been. I would listen to their stories and mishaps in…

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Letters To The Editor – April 2016

Crazy Deer Story Just Shows Deer Don’t Follow Rules Dear GON, I got a strange tale to tell. I’ve been hunting deer since 1967 and never seen or heard of this. Just shows you can’t trust ’em. Opening morning I dropped a 180-lb. 7-point 40 yards away. A couple minutes later a bigger set of…

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