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When the bullet hit, the animal buckled from the sting and went crashing back into the jungle of reed cane. Ten yards inside, running wide open, it came to the edge of a sharp-dropping creek bank. Not able to stop, it went crashing down the bank and hit a sharp boulder on the opposite bank,…
It may not be Georgia’s new state record alligator, but without a doubt it is one of the largest hunter-killed gators ever taken in the state. With two separate measurements reported on a Eufaula gator killed opening morning, there was a little bit of confusion on what the official measurement would be. There was some…
It’s tightening up at the top of GON’s rankings of Georgia counties for their big-buck production. Topping the list for years with scores that approached 200 points were Dooly and Macon, neighboring counties along the Flint River long known for being the best trophy-buck counties in the state. The latest numbers have been crunched, and…
For some of us, it’s just too dang hot to get serious about bowhunting the second week of September in Georgia, but we’ve been blessed with some stellar mornings and unseasonably cool temperatures this season. Comfortable conditions show in the results — lots of deer seen and some nice bucks killed. The month’s reports from our…
Georgia deer hunters killed a pile of deer last season. You’d have to go all the way back to 1997 to rival the estimated 464,000 deer that hunters took out of the woods last year. It was an 18 percent increase in harvest over the 2009 season and continues the trend of growing hunter and…
For some of us, it’s just too dang hot to get serious about bowhunting the second week of September in Georgia, but we’ve been blessed with some stellar mornings and unseasonably cool temperatures this season. Comfortable conditions show in the results — lots of deer seen and some nice bucks killed. The month’s reports from…
The black coyote broke the skin on the buck’s neck, but he couldn’t hang on but a split second. The younger gray female coyote that had been tailing the black yote had already retreated, knowing the buck was much too big to handle. The old male black coyote was nearly blind and was living out…
GON’s Georgia’s Best Bow Bucks rankings continue to grow. Last season marked the third-best year for Pope & Young class bucks. In 2010, 61 hunters took a buck worthy of GON’s rankings, bringing Georgia’s total to 782 bucks. Four counties — Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford and Effingham — recorded their first bucks on this…
Dove fields are planted with very specific dates in mind. This year, for instance, Sept. 3 and 5 figure prominently. As noon of opening day arrives, thousands of hunters baking in the September sun count on the fact that mourning doves by the handful or hundreds will flock to their particular patch of ground. If…
It is that time of the year again, time to check food sources and take inventory of your hunting pack. Knowing how to do both is vital for anyone to have a good hunt. In this article we will cover the different food sources worth hanging a stand near during bow season as well…
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