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Screven County: On Oct. 22, 2014, Ranger Jordan Crawford was working a night hunting detail off Harmony Church Road and Cut Path Road in Screven County. “At approximately 11 p.m., I observed a spotlight shine across the cotton field that I was stationed in,” Crawford wrote in the Department of Public Safety (DPS) incident report.…
The “Shoal Bass Bill” failed to pass on the last day of the Georgia legislative session. What that means is that there will be no hunting or fishing license fee increase this fall. You’ll have to see last month’s editorial to follow how oddly this political football bounced. It also means there will be another…
If you know anything at all about turkey calls, I could’ve used some advice. There’s probably fortyleven good old boys in my phone contacts that could help, but if I start calling them at this hour of the day, WWIII is apt to break out. So I’m sitting here as dawn threatens to crack. Got…
Recently I attended the National Wild Turkey Federation’s (NWTF) Sawnee Mountain Chapter banquet to get primed for turkey season. While there, I caught up with NWTF’s Georgia State Chapter president and the Georgia Save the Hunt coordinator Dave Wamer. I had a few questions for him: 1) Dave, you’re a seasoned veteran with 23 seasons…
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…
By GON Staff Each month we turn back the clock to see what was being reported in the pages of GON, both 20 and 10 years ago. Here’s a look back at what appeared in GON. 20 Years Ago: April 1996 Mortality Record Set For Right Whales?: Twenty years ago Georgia biologists were trying to…
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Jackson County: Hunting without permission is a common issue for folks who own property and for hunters who lease tracts for hunting. It’s particularly an issue for absentee landowners who live far from their property. During the 2014 deer hunting season, Law Enforcement Division (LED) officer Eric Isom received a call regarding suspicion that someone…
By the time you get this magazine, the Georgia legislative session will have ended, and the fate of a bill that would raise license and permit fees for sportsmen will be known. As I sit here writing this on March 24, on the last day remaining in the session, I’ve been told the license fee…
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