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Hunting
A wild turkey hen will typically lay nine to 12 eggs each spring. From 1980 to 1989, the average number of poults-per-hen in Georgia was 4.1. The next decade, from 1990 to 1999, the average poult count was 3.0. The average during the past 10 years was just 1.5 poults per hen. WRD has said…
A long time ago, while working a bird on the side of a steep hardwood hill, I fell into a rut that took me an entire season to climb out of. This old bird was partial to hard, aggressive hen talk, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. I guess he gobbled 40 or…
Will Starr arrived at the cemetery promptly at 4 p.m. the following Wednesday afternoon just as Jonas had requested. Jonas and several other people were raking leaves and picking up small limbs. “Good to see ya’, Mista Will,” Jonas said with a big smile. “Mista Hardy, he got sump’n for you….” He nodded toward the…
This past weekend marked the fourth year Georgia has held the “Special Opportunity Season” for turkey. This two-day season gives youth 16 years of age and younger, plus mobility-impaired hunters, the opportunity to get out and hunt the weekend before the statewide Georgia turkey season. I have had the chance to turkey hunt the first three Special…
Legend? Surely; there can be no doubt about that well-earned status. Successful writer and author? Why, a man could plop down in an easy chair and stay lost for days on end in tales of hunting and fishing from over half a century of traipsing up and down a pair of continents. Raconteur and teller…
There was a brief moment in my life when I thought I had turkey hunting all figured out. With a few seasons under my belt, I was learning the ropes and getting pretty good at filling my two tags in my home state of Kentucky each spring. Most of those birds were taken on low-pressured…
I sat in the cool afternoon shade, watching the breeze sweep across the green grass of the field that I had pulled the big, timid gobbler across. It had been a spring turkey hunt at its finest. That is until I squeezed the trigger and watched the hefty longbeard take flight like a quail and…
On a cold evening in November of 2000, a wide-eyed, 12-year-old boy sat in a tree stand on the edge of a food plot as the sun began to disappear behind the trees on the horizon. With only minutes of visible light left, he spotted movement in the corner of the field to his right.…
Anyone who knows Sarah Tonsmeire will tell you she’s a force to be reckoned with. She is an active member of the Cartersville community and volunteer for both local charities and national wildlife conservation. At age 28, she’s fortunate enough to be able to unite her passion with her occupation as a NASCAR account manager…
Will Starr parked his truck on the side of the road next to the small country cemetery and got out. He patted the locked cover on the truck bed as he walked around the rear of the vehicle. Holding a hand-made box call in one hand, he walked over to the back corner of the…
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