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Hunting
The Legend of “Stick Man” In the late 1950s and early ’60s, avid whitetail hunter Buck Ashe, of Chamblee, earned the nickname “Stick Man” because he hunted deer exclusively with a recurve bow. At a time when few deer hunters were using archery gear, this popular Georgia hunter arrowed some exceptional trophy animals. However, in…
“Leia!” Hamp shouted across the dark food plot. “Leia!” His voice was choked with worry and rising panic about what had happened to his granddaughter. The hunting blind was empty, but puzzlingly, her rifle was still propped up in the corner. Hamp Varner and his brother Dewitt had hurried from their hunt camp to the…
Having acquired a new deer hunting lease in Worth County, Danny Culpepper and his sons, Fletcher and Trevor, spent September and early October scouting and bowhunting the property. Each of the men eventually selected a primary stand location. Danny elected to skip opening weekend of firearms season, but his sons hunted both days, with somewhat…
Our mission was simple: Strike out before daylight, walk for a half hour and arrive in an area of hardwoods at shooting light and start squirrel hunting. A friend of mine had seen some hog sign in this particular area back during turkey season, and I was curious to see if the rooters were still…
I had been hunting pretty hard for about two weeks. The rut was in full swing, and everyone was seeing bucks chasing does. Myself, I had seen some deer and even the occasional small buck, but nothing I really wanted to shoot. Prior to that 2010 season, I had spent the time and money to…
Brent was afraid to climb down from his stand. The teenager had never seen his father in such an angry rage. George Gentry stood beneath his 17-year-old son’s deer stand, soaking wet, water dripping from his face, glaring upward toward Brent’s stand and shouting in an utter fury. “Brent, you fool,” he screamed, his voice…
If you’ve never duck hunted in the coastal marshes of Altamaha WMA Waterfowl Management Area, where you’ve got a better-than-average chance to fill your limit with a variety of different duck species, you have been missing out. Last year’s Altamaha WMA duck hunters on Butler Island had the best season ever, according to records that…
Long before daylight on the opening day of archery deer season, Hamp stood alone at the edge of the camp. Overhead a million stars twinkled and blazed in a black, moonless sky. The air was stone still, and for mid September, cool. Radar, the border collie, stood beside him, looking up quizzically, wagging his tail.…
It was a cold October morning and shortly after 8 o’clock when my mind began to drift. I had been sitting motionless for several hours and hadn’t even seen a bird or a squirrel. The boredom of monotony grabbed me, and I checked my cell phone for messages. Since I had my phone out, I…
Imagine a weekend in deer camp with 10 to 20 kids and their parents. Not only do the adult/child pairs get to make memories in the woods while deer hunting, they learn about rubs, scrapes, field-dressing, scouting, conservation, safety, hunting skills and all the ins-and-outs of deer biology from state WRD biologists. Pretty cool concept,…
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