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Hunting
This may be a record. We’ve got 142 WMAs, state parks or VPAs that hosted public-land bowhunts last year. Some are headliners—like Flint River and Sapelo—but some of them are obscure, small tracts you probably have never heard of. Where is Echeconnee Creek anyway? OK, so last year we had a pink elephant. Sapelo Island’s…
Beginning Sept. 14, thousands of bowhunters will enter the Georgia woodlands in hopes of arrowing a whitetail deer. Some will be successful, most will not, and a few will suffer the agony of sticking a deer and not being able to recover it. Drawing blood but not finding a deer is one of the most…
It’s easy. To think that it’s easy, that is. Why, these pages are fair packed with rocking-chair-racked whitetails almost every month. And we all know of the rookie—or his wife—who nearly tripped over the trophy of a lifetime and hauled it home in a pal’s pickup. Nothing to this big buck business, right? David Shepard…
The Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out was just held July 26 during the Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast. We watched another young hunter, John Kilpatrick, compete and win a BB gun shooting contest to earn a $3,000 shopping spree at https://adventureoutdoors.us and a weekend hunt at https://www.woodsnwaterinc.com. The runner-up prize in the Youth Big-Buck Shoot-Out is a CVA…
Hunters can get a jump on the waterfowl season with the upcoming early teal and Canada goose hunting seasons. Early Canada goose season for 2024 is Sept. 7-29, with a daily limit of five geese. The early teal season for 2024 is Sept. 14-29, with a daily limit of six teal. “Teal migrate earlier than…
Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge in central Georgia is turning to an electronic sign-up process to fill their upcoming deer and turkey quota hunts. In the past, they used the U.S. Postal Service to fill quota hunts, but with current struggles with delivery of USPS mail, the electronic change at Piedmont seems to come at an…
GON’s Deer Coolers list is a statewide look at places to take deer for processing. The listing is free to deer-cooler operators and just one more service we provide to GON readers. A listing for a deer processor is not an endorsement by GON. If you’d like to add your deer cooler to the list, or…
“There’s a season for squirrels?” That was the reaction of a young kid when told of the upcoming squirrel season opener on Thursday, Aug. 15. The 2024-2025 squirrel season in Georgia runs from Aug. 15 to Feb. 28 with a daily limit of 12 squirrels per hunter. The simplicity of squirrel hunting and potential for…
I feel compelled to share my testimony of a transformative weekend that unfolded last season in the heart of Troup County with 30-30 Ministries and hosted by Shayne Goddard with the Georgia Sheriffs’ Youth Homes. It was an experience that not only strengthened the bond between a father and his daughter but also illuminated the beauty…
Papa says I have the biggest imagination he’s ever seen and that I see things in the woods that aren’t really there… like big ol’ gnarly bucks, for instance… Now I was wondering if that was true. It was opening day of gun season in October, and I wanted to see a big buck in…
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