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Round 1 of the 2025 GON Coyote Cull is off and rolling as hunters and trappers step up to the plate to kill song dogs in an effort to save fawns and turkey poults. Listed below are all the entries of those who have found success and taken a photo with their May 2025 issue…
My name is Lora Akin, born and raised in Columbus, Ga. I don’t have any private land to turkey hunt, so I normally drive about 45 minutes to an hour just to hunt some public land. On April 17, 2025 around 7 p.m. that evening, I was blessed with a beautiful turkey. I was out…
For the next three months, GON is offering chances for readers to win some really cool prizes in our annual Coyote Cull contest. Flip back to page 16 to check out the details on how all that works. Let’s do a reality check on this. May, June and July aren’t the more relaxing months to…
When it comes to the status of wild turkeys in Georgia, we’re certainly not out of the woods yet. Reproduction remains very low compared to the glory days of chasing gobblers in Georgia in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Something changed, for sure, and hopefully answers and solutions will come soon. The good news…
It began more than a decade ago as coyotes had spread across Georgia, and this non-native, invasive species was showing up on trail cameras with fawns and turkeys in their mouths. What could GON do? A contest that’s super easy to navigate was the result. All that’s needed to enter is a dead coyote in…
Charlie had just come to full draw with her recurve and released a practice arrow at the paper turkey target 15 yards away when it happened. At the exact same time her arrow hit the target, a real live turkey let loose with a spine-tingling double-gobble. She was practicing out back behind the Home Place.…
I’ve been trapping for about four years as a part of the GTA (Georgia Trappers Association) but haven’t really gotten into it. I mean I’ve caught coyotes, opossums and raccoons but nothing really exciting. I’ve always wanted to catch a bobcat. It was only five days before the end of the 2023-24 trapping season. I…
There is arguably no greater feeling than when hard work finally pays off. In a flood of emotions, you reflect on the journey that brought you here, celebrate the achievement with loved ones, and sometimes even grieve the end of the path that led you. Most of the stories featured in each GON issue showcase…
Everyone has heard some version of the phrase, “tomorrow is not promised.” It’s a concept that is easy to understand, yet many still take tomorrow’s arrival for granted. Unfortunately, it’s often not until a blessing is taken away that this truth really sinks in. The silver lining in this reality, though, is that we can…
Richard McKenzie has killed the No. 2 overall buck for Marion County with a giant, non-typical 18-pointer that he took on Nov. 17, 2024. It will end up being one of the best bucks from the 2024-25 season, which we’ll be showcasing in the Fab-40 in the August 2025 issue. Richard’s main-frame 10-pointer has 35…
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