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Hunting
Over the years, I’ve probably read more articles on hunting the rut than any other type of article. Heck, I’ve even written three or four. In almost every one of those articles, it talks about positioning yourself in a stand location where you can see a long way and cover the most ground. I have to tell you,…
Georgia’s special quota gator season runs through Oct. 3. To submit a gator photo to GON, please e-mail to [email protected]. Please include hunter’s name, age, hometown, the name of the water body where the kill took place and date. To submit a gator hunt story and photo for Hunter’s Journal, please mail or e-mail to the…
Each opening day of dove season for the past decade, Claibourne Darden and his wife Anita, have opened their Taliaferro County farm to the GON family for an opening day shoot, with proceeds going to the work done by our non-profit, GONetwork and its SEEDS program for kids. This year’s Darden Dove Shoot may have…
As the 2016-2017 deer season is rapidly approaching, the excitement builds as I gear up for this season. However, even in my excitement, I have some concerns. In the past few years, the number of wheelchair hunters has declined on many of the public hunts. We just don’t have the turnout like we once had.…
Like a villain in the night, the stalker drew closer. “IT” was hungry, and the heavy cloud cover provided perfect concealment, blocking the full moon from shining through to the dark creek bottom. With the exception of the sound of the creek’s steady flow, the bottom was deafly quiet. The Phantom approached the waist-sized bay…
When it comes to my lifelong passion for whitetail hunting, I’ve always been drawn to old stuff: old photos, old deer rifles and old stories from yesteryear. I’ve been collecting vintage black-and-white deer hunting photos for many years, and Dawn of American Deer Hunting, published in November 2015, is the result of that interest. …
October – The Chess Match Like a villain in the night, the stalker drew closer. “IT” was hungry, and the heavy cloud cover provided perfect concealment, blocking the full moon from shining through to the dark creek bottom. With the exception of the sound of the creek’s steady flow, the bottom was deafly quiet. The…
More weight on your arrows is a good thing. Believe me? If you don’t believe me, take a look at some testing done by Kris Wall that’s included here. First, let me give you an example. It was the first week of November last season. I was watching the weather report, and I was also…
Bowhunting is a challenging sport. It’s more of an art than a science, and eventually every hunter develops a style that maximizes their success and fun with the sport. However, if you apply some fundamentals, you will be well on your way to killing a deer with archery equipment. Here are my Top 5 tips…
For a time, it seemed like trapping was becoming a lost art. Georgia Trappers Association is a non-profit organization that has been keeping trapping alive over the years, and now GTA is helping get more and more people into trapping as coyote problems take a bite out of wildlife across the state. The 35th annual…
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