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Hunting
My story is about overcoming the challenges of life, as well as the success of being a hunter. On July 31, 2013, I sustained a life changing injury while at work. I fell 35 feet from a billboard, crushed both ankles and broke my back, which caused me to be paralyzed from the waist down.…
How do you secure the future of conservation, shooting sports, and our hunting heritage? Georgia is leading the nation in the quest for the answer. With a nationwide general decline in hunting participation since the 1980s, the leaders in the conservation community have come together, recognized the gravity of the situation and made a serious…
There are all kinds of criminal trespass, but without a doubt the most grievous kind happened to archery hunter Pritch Morgan back in 1988. He was bowhunting during the archery season and walking on his own land when he was reportedly mistaken for a deer and shot dead by a trespasser. The trespasser was hunting…
In 2006, GON began sounding the alarm about the impacts coyotes were having, specifically on deer fawns. Dozens of articles and a decade later, the evidence is overwhelming. Coyotes have hammered deer, dropping fawn survival rates so low that deer hunting is being restricted through increased buck-only days to limit harvest. Talked to a turkey…
Regardless of the weather, turkeys will do their springtime rituals, and you can bet turkey hunters will be hunting them hard. As usual, GON has received lots of pictures, and in this month’s coverage we focused on showing off the kids. Look for more turkey pics in upcoming issues of GON. Here are the opening-weekend…
When I started hunting turkeys, I was under the impression that jake turkeys were a meek-and-mild bunch. I assumed they slipped along in the cool shadows of the spring woods not really wanting to be noticed, especially by a dominant gobbler. I was just two days into my second season of turkey hunting when I…
Thirty yards ahead of me in the pitch black of a moonless March night stood Josh Watts, of Clarkesville, and his lifelong buddy Kyle Rogers, of Cleveland. They were standing in a massive, freshly planted Lee County cornfield, and they were hog hunting. Before them were three pods of hogs numbering 12 to 25 head…
The hunt was approaching the 10-hour mark, and I hadn’t heard a gobble since 7 that morning. I was tired and began to wonder how much longer I could stand it. Yet, I maintained my focus and fully believed a gobbler would still show up in the roadbed in front of me that was a…
Each spring, GON likes to inspire hunters who can’t wait for the upcoming turkey season—as if we need any additional teasing—by looking back at exceptional Georgia gobblers that have made the record books. Some fantastic birds were taken last year that re-wrote the Georgia records, but it was a 2014 southeast Georgia bird finally certified…
By the time the season was winding down last year, I found myself wondering not how many birds had died over the course of the Georgia season, but rather how many had survived it. According to WRD, I, along with 52,406 other turkey hunters hit the woods last spring, and 26,000 turkeys ending up leaving…
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