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Todd Young gave little thought to the tiny tick he found burrowed into his scalp two years ago. “It was at the back of my head, at the hairline,” the Cherokee County trapper and taxidermist recalled. “I just pulled it off. That’s what I always did.” The tick, he figures, likely dropped onto his clothing…
Hunters across the state of Georgia are pacing the floor waiting for the opening bell to another turkey season. I have been consumed by “The Sickness” that is turkey hunting since the 1980s. It just never gets old for me, and as I approach three decades of turkey hunting in this great state, I can’t…
Opening day of turkey season often varies in terms of what can be expected. I have witnessed openers where solo gobblers came running in to the call, piles of jakes were chasing each other and fighting, or groups of hens were by themselves. However, more often than not I seem to witness large flocks of…
I’m going to share some hunting lessons that I learned the hard way even after 55 years of being in the woods. My name is Larry Fox, and I live in the mountains of north Georgia near Ellijay. My son’s name is Larry Fox Jr. I am retired after 30 years with the U.S. Forest…
A new study into coyote predation on whitetail fawns suggests reducing hunter harvest, rather than intensive trapping, might be the most effective way to stabilize a declining deer population. The conclusion, based on data collected from 2010 to 2012 at the U.S. Energy Department’s Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina, is outlined in a…
Spend just a little bit of time around a campfire with a bunch of deer hunters these days and the subject of coyotes is going to come up. Song dogs howl at night, their paw prints and scat line hunting-club roads, and trail cameras are photographing them—sometimes with fawns in their mouths. And to add…
It’s a small faded blue doublewide with a screened-in front porch, and sits on 100 acres of Georgia pines on the side of Little Canoochee Creek Road near the small town of Twin City in southeast Georgia. The carport beside the home holds an old red Ford Ranger sporting a front license plate that says,…
Deer season had just ended in 2014. It was on a Saturday, and there was no football on television, so I grabbed my Obsession Sniper bow and fanny pack, grabbed some camouflage and my rubber boots, and headed to the swamp to stalk a hog in the Oconee river basin. I have been stalking hogs…
Deer season is winding down quickly, and it’s time to think about adding some variety to the wild game meats in your freezer. WRD biologists say that a good number of our WMAs have huntable populations of wild pigs, and that it’s time for hunters to come to the aid of our beleaguered WMAs. “Wild…
Taxidermist Steve Ward knows a big deer when he sees one, and he’s picky when it comes to taking a shot. But as most deer hunters know, recognizing a really big buck takes only a moment. That’s a good thing for Ward, because a moment is all he had to make a trigger-pulling decision the…
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