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Hunting
Even after 10 years of watching with morbid curiosity, I find myself still enthralled with the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. I am fascinated by the raw, primal strength and mysterious beauty of the great white shark as unsuspecting seals are stalked from deep below. With a stunning flash of power and speed, the sharks rocket…
Ideas for many of my GON articles start in some interesting places. They’ve started in weigh-in lines at tournaments, in the halls at church and by listening to tales of fish being caught at local tackle shops. The bottom line is that if there is a story to be had, I’m on it. After a…
For the first time ever, WMA hunters will have the opportunity to hunt hogs and coyotes on most Georgia WMAs from May 16-31. (Note: This article in the May issue of GON magazine in error says the special season begins May 15.) In fact, unless a Georgia WMA specifically says it’s closed to this special…
Ossabaw Island, Georgia — Codey Elrod has a job most Southern hunters would kill for. Literally. My job,” Elrod said, “is to kill hogs.” And he gets paid for it. Elrod lives alone on this 40-square mile barrier island below Savannah. He works when he wants — daybreak, late afternoon, middle of the night. His office is…
By Martin W. Duke and Renee Nolan After enduring winter when the chill holds coyotes closer to their dens, early spring’s warmer weather can bring forth different predator responses. Calling critters is universally fun, and distress is the celestial love language for constantly hungry predators. In our world, mammals with eyes on the front of…
Ellis Holloway III was a third-generation landowner. Even though he was accused of having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, which he couldn’t deny, he had set about early in life to do more than live off the family inheritance. He had always been a hard worker, and he loved the land…
Turkeys have a way of utilizing their surroundings that makes getting one into gun range a pretty tough row to hoe. In the timber, they seem to always manage to put a ditch between themselves and the hunter. Or maybe just a slight rise exists there that the hunter doesn’t know about until the gobbler…
As is often the case during the opening weekends of Georgia’s turkey season—both the youth opener and the general season opener a week later—the gobbling reports ranged from red hot in some counties to non-existent in some others. Overall, Georgia turkey hunters hope this season will mark the beginning of a return to the quality…
Phil Mills, of Ivey, has an unbelievable deer hunting story that will likely put his name in GON‘s Fab 40 rankings in the August 2018 issue. Phil’s buck was taken Oct. 25, 2017. The main-frame 10-pointer has a 15 3/8-inch third beam and several kickers that allowed for 25 1/8 inches of abnormal inches and a…
I always enjoy seeing the transitions from season to season. I love seeing the leaves changing colors in the fall, and in my opinion, there is nothing more special than the transitions that occur from winter to spring. The temperatures begin to warm back up, and the foliage and native browse turn green…
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