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Hunting
I started hunting this buck when I got my first picture of him on Oct. 22 close to my favorite stand. This particular area I am hunting is deep in the hardwoods and about a quarter mile from the next closest deer stand. It lies between two large beaver ponds where deer and big bucks…
Every season we hear some sad stories from longtime GON subscribers who forgot to renew their memberships… “First time in 10 years I let my subscription run out…” You know what happened next. They killed the biggest buck of their lives, and that dream of taking part in the Truck-Buck contest, the pageantry of the…
In years past, the first or second week of November would find me on a trip to Ohio to hunt with my two nephews, Mark and Steven. But as luck would have it, our schedules would not allow us to go last year. My bowhunting in Georgia had started well last season with a nice…
Coyotes are an invasive, non-native species that has spread to every corner of Georgia in the past decade. With coyote populations in Georgia growing, while fawn-recruitment rates and other wildlife suffer serious impacts, more and more sportsmen are interested in learning how to trap. Animal-rights groups like PETA and HSUS have for decades done a…
Maggie’s screams split the air in Blues Bog. It was the most terrifying sound Dillon had ever heard he thought as he tossed the empty rifle aside and jumped forward to grab Maggie under her arms from behind. In his panic, it was all he could think of to do to try to save his…
Sometimes I just have to get a little dirt under my fingernails… I’ve heard from a good number of folks who read my “Save A Fawn, Trap A Yote” feature in the May issue. I couldn’t have written such a step-by-step article without Ben Poole, of Social Circle. Ben explained in great depth what folks…
Georgia is truly blessed with a variety of public hunting opportunities. From the mountains in the north, Piedmont hills in the central part of the state and to sandy hills and swamps in the south, we truly have a huge variety of land to hunt. Having two boys born in the 1990s and watching them…
Thanksgiving Day morning nine months earlier: Dillon Craft thought his heart was going to pound right through the front of his hunting jacket. Fifty yards from where he sat nervously in his deer stand, a monster buck was thrashing a decent 8-pointer. Dillon could see only flashes of brown deer hide through the trees…
From the start, when a season was established in 2003, a permit to hunt a Georgia alligator has been a hot-ticket item. The number of permits available has risen over the past decade from 180 that first year to 850 now, but the number of permits available is still a drop in the bucket compared…
“I just want to thank y’all for doing this. I need some help.” Those were the firsts words out of Coyote Cull drawing winner Dennis Shaw, a forester from Shiloh. Well… they were the first words right after he said “Hallelujah!” about six times when he was told he’d won a gun. “I killed one…
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