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Hunting
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…
“I felt strange and somewhat rude as I walked in behind the point and honor—I was a man walking into what was so much like a famous painting that I almost had to laugh. But, if you’re lucky, that’s what a lot of quail hunting is—a series of lovely paintings that we walk into and…
WRD Senior Wildlife Biologist Bobby Bond called it right. He said with record warm temperatures pushing 80 degrees, the bears would be on the move and a high harvest might occur. Bobby nailed it. For middle Georgia’s annual one-day bear hunt, which took place on Saturday, Dec. 13, there were 12 bears checked in. This…
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources recently announced the opening of a 3,986-acre tract in Glynn County along I-95 and the Altamaha River, known as Altama Plantation WMA. Altama Plantation WMA will provide outdoor recreation for hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities, while protecting the water quality around the Altamaha River, the largest recreational and…
Alarm goes off at 4:30 a.m. Quickly it is turned off and forgotten… I have had the good fortune to be part of the same hunting club for more than 28 years. Over this time I have developed great friendships. Being able to laugh at the stupid things we do at camp has been well…
Shooting a nice buck will definitely get the blood pumping. Yet if the buck doesn’t drop in sight, mixed with that adrenaline is often a bit of anxiety. Was it a good shot? Will you be able to trail and recover the deer? Was it as big as you thought? Imagine Mac Cole’s emotions when he shot a…
Known for many superlatives, Lake Seminole has long been ranked only behind the Georgia coast as the best place to duck hunt in Georgia. The ways to hunt ducks at Lake Seminole are as diverse and numerous as is the diversity of the habitat on the 37,500 acres. One of those who know Big Sem’s…
I really like happy endings. Such was the case for Jonathan Newsome, of Brunswick, during the Dec. 3-5 quota deer hunt at Chickasawhatchee WMA. “We had been planing this trip for months, but when it got down to leaving, it seemed as if we could not catch a break,” said Jonathan. “First, I took off…
If you are a member of the Spikes family from Alapaha, Nov. 23 is certainly a time for celebration every year. It was on Nov. 23, 2015 when Jake Spikes, 10, of Alapaha, killed his first Georgia buck, but it was actually his second buck taken in the month of November. On Nov. 14, Jake…
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