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Hunting
On the night of April 10, 2014, I fell asleep dreaming of my hunt planned for the following morning. The day before I had just killed my first double-bearded gobbler, and I was planning to return to the same area to call for the other gobbler I knew was still there. The morning came early…
I have been fussed at by more than one or two clients over the years because of my tendency to walk too fast or too far in the turkey woods. However, there are times when a quicker pace or a longer walk is needed to reach the goal of getting a turkey to ride home…
“Brock! Get up! It’s time to get ready,” said my dad. It was March 22, 2014, and I was just getting up to go turkey hunting. I put my clothes on and stood by the heater for a little bit before going to the cabin to get an early morning glass of milk. We run…
I’m not real sure when it happened, but somewhere along the way, early in my turkey hunting days, I made the mistake of believing that I could make a turkey do something he didn’t want to do. I even took that a little further and convinced myself that I could make him do it when…
“The more things change, the more they stay the same” certainly describes the life Michael Waddell has lived, starting out as a young boy growing up in the woods of a place he calls Booger Bottom, just a stone’s throw from Woodbury. Now he’s a man who makes his living in the woods all across…
You’re never too old to enjoy the great outdoors, and that’s why Viola Gentry, of Sylva, N.C., still climbs in a tree stand every chance she gets, even at the age of 89. While only getting the chance to go hunting with her husband once or twice before he passed away in 1994, she fell…
On Nov. 21, Truth in Nature held its second deer hunt of the fall at Walker Creek Outdoors in Haralson County. Truth in Nature is an outdoor ministry founded in 2009 in Dallas that works with and mentors young men who are from single-parent homes. This particular hunt was a make up for an earlier,…
A special hog hunt would make for the most memorable hunting trip our crew would ever experience. It would involve preparation, manipulation, tons of luck, pure joy and eventually unexpected devastation. These events would be implanted in our minds and engraved in our hearts forever. In February 2006, I was sitting on a rusted, red…
Andy Bedgood is thinking. And thinking. You can almost see the mental wheels turning… Guess I hadn’t realized the complexities of the question before asking, “How many dogs do you have?” “Well,” he soon replied with a rub of whiskers and a signature south Georgia drawl, “Do you mean the ones I have at home…
Many hunters dream of taking a double drop tine buck. Just taking a big buck is hard enough, much less one with double drop tines. Wesley Bennett, of Seville, Fla., recently knocked that off his bucket list—and Wesley is just 12 years old! Wesley’s father, John, bought private land in Brooks County, Georgia in February of 2015. Brooks County…
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