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Hunting
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,…
Clyde Yoder’s friends jokingly tell him he’s such a lucky hunter he could put up a stand on the light pole in the Walmart parking lot and probably shoot a buck. Clyde, a very modest and humble hunter, welcomes good luck and said it always helps to be at the right place at the right…
A tornado hit Fort Stewart! Well, not really. The whirlwind that swept through on a recent weekend was actually me. Being I haven’t been in the woods for nearly six months due to work travel, I hit Fort Stewart with a vengeance. Thank God there was somewhere in my part of the state open to…
November 20, 1864 between Hillsboro and Milledgeville: “Ten more steps,” the boy breathed to himself as he sighted down the long, octagonal barrel of his muzzleloader. “Just ten more steps…” The front bead of his sights was lined up on the shoulder of the biggest buck he had ever seen. It was standing 50…
Have a pesky armadillo digging up the sod in your yard? Just be glad you don’t have a South American giant armadillo, which can weigh up to 130 pounds and tear up a heck of a lot more landscaping than the little 10-lb. nine-banded armadillos we have in the U.S. GON recently got a letter…
Would you like to hunt an exclusive, exotic island, set with tall palmetto and live oak trees, pristine beaches, fertile marshes, an abundant hog population and a deer herd of 70 per square mile? The area is hunted five times each year, and each hunt is limited to a strict quota. It is accessed only…
Black bears in metro Atlanta? Georgia’s bear population is on the rise, and these highly mobile critters are showing up more and more in areas where they’re not supposed to be. Odd sightings are especially frequent this time of year, when young males disperse. Larger adult males push young males out of their home ranges…
Deer managers and hunters now know for certain coyotes in Georgia are taking a bite out of fawn numbers. Top deer researchers studying fawn mortality are finding survival rates significantly lower than they used to be, and coyotes are the primary fawn killer. Studies in the Southeast are finding only 20 to 25 percent of…
If you hunt turkeys for 40 years as I have, sooner or later you are going to experience days when turkeys just don’t gobble. It may be three to five days, a whole week, month or an entire season. You wake in the morning hopeful and go to bed discouraged and ready to quit, but…
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