Posts by Steve Burch

Hunting season in Georgia is just beginning this year and we should note this beginning because this may be last time hunting season begins this way again. There is a House study committee holding hearings about whether hunting over feed carried to the field is legal for deer. If it is legal for deer, then…

There has been a small earthquake in northwest Georgia that may have a significant impact on deer hunting all over Georgia. The old Inland and Bowater timber lands are now under management by Timberland Investment Resources. They are leaseing the tracts to the highest bidder. This is a new and very unsettling change to Georgia…

There is a storm coming and we have to prepare for it now. The coming storm is an attack by anti-hunters on hunters and hunting right here in Georgia. The storm is scheduled to hit about 16 months from now. The cause of this storm is home-grown. State Senator Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) has spear-headed a…

Conventional wisdom suggests that if you do anything positive to promote hunting in an urban setting, you are bound to fail. The antis will come out and shout you down. Conventional wisdom has some holes in it. If you are a sportsman in Georgia, you just had a positive month. May was good. I think…

It is amazing to think of the efforts sportsmen have gone to, and the positive results that appear to be coming from those efforts. The world is different, the world is better, because sportsmen showed up, stood up, and spoke up. Let me give you four examples. The National Park Service (NPS) administers the Chattahoochee…

“Why did they do that?” I keep hearing it. Sportsmen ask this question all the time. Most recently, it has been asked about the planned increase in the season bag limit on does from 10 to 15. Enough sportsmen objected often enough that WRD has retreated. Doe limits will be unchanged for the next two…

There is a Catch 22 going on. We need to understand it, and fix it. The catch is that politicians are working at cross purposes regarding hunting, and we are in the middle of a political crossfire that will likely leave us the only victim if we don’t act. Last week, the Georgia Senate passed…