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Hunting
For the third consecutive season, most Georgia counties will experience at least a few days of deer season when only bucks are legal to shoot during firearms season. Make sure to check the date and the regulations prior to pulling the trigger on an antlerless deer. The return to having dates that are buck-only was…
Since September 2015, DNR has purchased 32,000 acres, and all those properties are included in the WMA system and will be open for hunting this fall. While some of these tracts had been leased for hunting for years and are now being purchased, other properties are brand-new hunting tracts. The ticket price for the new…
If seeing the amazing racks that will be on display at this year’s Outdoor Blast doesn’t get you fired up for deer season, you might want to trade in your camo for a golf shirt—or check for a pulse. Just announced is that the Buck Ashe mount will be on display at the 2017 Outdoor Blast.…
Hunters and deer managers face a new reality in the Southern woods. In case you haven’t heard—maybe you’re a new reader of GON—coyotes are here and having a significant impact on deer populations on some pieces of property. It’s a story we’ve been researching and telling for years. Just how dramatic an impact coyotes could…
June is a usually a month spent in the shade with a cold drink in your hand, maybe fishing for bluegill, with little to no thoughts about deer hunting. However, June can be the perfect month to reflect back at the previous hunting season and make your plans for the upcoming season. It is a great…
It’s safe to say that thousands of coaches, parents and students across this great state have something to do with the 4-H Project S.A.F.E. (Shooting Awareness Fun and Education) program. From the fourth grader in their first year of shooting a bow to the senior in high school who can hit 25 for 25 clay…
When it’s cold, coyotes get hungry. Long about January, blow on a squealing rabbit call, and a coyote won’t waste much time checking out the scene before another predator slides in for the free meal. Or, put a leg-hold trap in the ground and make a dirt-hole set above it. Drop a spoonful of smelly…
“I done tol’ you, Mista Will, that Ad’mral, he ain’t no ordinary turkey bird.” Jonas, Will and Greg were standing in the church parking lot on Sunday afternoon, the day after Will’s extraordinary encounter. Will had contacted Jonas and arranged the meeting, so he could tell about his strange experience. “I agree with you Jonas,…
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…
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