Beginning Of My First Turkey Season
Turkey season opens this week. What better way to get ready than to do a little shooting and getting comfortable with the gun I would be using? Shooting in front of others definitely got me out of my comfort zone, as well as filming. Normally, I like to be behind the camera. However, things are…
Here Comes Turkey Season!
What better way to start off turkey season than by attending the 43rd Annual NWTF Sport Show in Nashville, Tenn. this past weekend. Let me start off with the road to get there was not as easy as planned. My weekend started off with me waking up a 4 a.m. to go to the Truck-Buck…
Slow It Down
This past weekend I took a weekend trip to Asheville. Driving through the curvy mountain roads gave me time to reflect on this past hunting season and what I wanted to accomplish this coming year. This past season I didn’t hunt as much as I wanted, due to work and school, as well as for…
The GON Parking Lot
Crazy thing happened to me over the holidays. I met GON freelance writer Donald Jarrett in the GON parking lot. That’s alone is not crazy, but the happenstance, circumstances and connections turned that random meeting into something very special. I also met his Donald’s son Devereaux. Still not getting it? If I didn’t walk out…
Just Kill A Deer Already
“Cochran, you just need to kill a deer.” Those were the words that Brad Gill spoke in our discussion about me not being sure if I was ever going to sit in my spacious blind again. It was difficult for me to come to terms that I injured a buck and was not able to…
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Mako Shark New Georgia State Record
Tyler Gary caught a shortfin mako shark off the Georgia coast in late April that is now the new state record and was confirmed by DNR’s Coastal Resources Division (CRD) on May 26. Tyler was fishing out of Richmond Hill with the Vindicator Fishing Team and Charters on April 26. The shark bit 70 nautical…
National Forest, Cohutta Hunters Needed To Attend Events
Those who hunt the Chattahoochee National Forest and Cohutta WMA are encouraged to stay involved and continue sharing opinions and thoughts during an ongoing U.S. Forest Service planning project. The next workshop for the “Foothills Landscape Project” will be held May 23-24 in Gainesville. Several other events will be taking place prior to that workshop, including a webinar conversation on…
National Forest, Cohutta Hunters Needed At Workshop
Voices of sportsmen who hunt the Chattahoochee National Forest and Cohutta WMA are needed during the ongoing U.S. Forest Service planning project. Workshops will be held March 28 and 29 in Gainesville. With good forest-management strategies going forward, public land in the north Georgia mountains could see improved habitat and better wildlife populations on nearly 145,000 acres of public land across…
Dead Coyote Fences
Larry Burns was headed to pump a well in Oklahoma when he saw a sight that he says he has seen every year for the past 10 years. Dead coyotes were hanging on fence posts for as far as the eye could see. This practice of hanging dead coyotes on fence posts dates back to the mid-1900s, when…