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Scrapbook – July 2023

Send photographs to [email protected], and please include name, subscriber number, hometown, county, date and details.                      

Realtree Kids: July 2023

Wipe Out The Hunting Jitters

If you’re like me (and many others), you think about deer season year-round. With July upon us, hunting season is only a couple of months away. If you’re just starting out or have been in the woods for a few seasons, what would you consider to be the attributes of a good hunter? To me,…

Conservation Law Enforcement Corner – July 2023

Burke County: On Oct. 11, 2019, Cpl. Jeffrey Billips received a complaint of night hunting on Cox Place Road in Burke County. A rifle shot was heard at approximately 5:30 a.m. In the incident report, Cpl. Billips wrote, “Cpl. Payne arrived at the scene and discovered evidence consistent with a deer being shot from the…

Spy Cam – July 2023

Email pictures 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. Or mail to GON Spy-Cam, PO Box 1379, Madison, GA 30650.        

Barnes Takes Top 150 On Lake Eufaula

Ellaville native Justin Barnes emerged as the winner at the Lake Eufaula ABA-AFT Top 150 tournament after a remarkable turnaround on the second day, June 3. Competing against 117 other anglers, Barnes secured first place with a total weight of 38.16 pounds, earning a prize of $16,400. On the first day of the tournament, Barnes…

Hunter’s Journal: Hunt For A Deer Named MAGA

By Barry Simmons  I was late to deer hunting. Growing up, I spent a lot of time in the woods hunting squirrel and other small game, but my daddy was not a hunter and there were no deer in our woods to hunt back then. Growing up in the 80s, the only deer I ever…

Ducky’s Wives

I think I’ve mentioned before about the inordinate number of times Ducky Jones has been married. Suffice to say, you can’t walk into a local grocery store, church or bar without running into one of his ex-wives. So it should not have been a surprise when we were sitting on my porch, stripping our fly reels…

Realtree Kids: June 2023

 

Of Raptors And Rodents

Perhaps I’ve mentioned too many times in this space my love/(mostly) hate relationship with squirrels. Yeah, that had to be how word got out. On the other hand, who knew that hawks could read? This time of year, when about all I’m legally allowed to place lead into is a nasty pig or coyote, is…

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