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Hunting
I can’t remember a time in my life when I did not own brittany spaniels. Over the years, one or two have been good bird dogs, one or two have been real- ly good bird dogs and one was unbelievable. His name was Pepper, my first brit. He was a gift from John Garner of…
“If you want to take a nice buck, you have to go south. You just can’t grow a deer in north Georgia like you can in the southern parts.” I’m sure you have all heard this one, and I must say, I have been guilty of using this line on more than one occasion. Polk…
Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the woods, Georgia deer hunters were sitting on food sources most fitting… on clover, wheat, rye and oat plots. In privet bottoms, honeysuckle thickets, water-oak stands and over late-dropping pears… in hopes a whitetail would soon be theirs! Corny poem? Oh, yeah, but it holds a lot…
Editor’s Note: The below letter is from the parents of Gip Gayle. GON reported on Gip’s Toombs County dove-hunting incident in the October 2003 issue. Gip received numerous shotgun pellets to his head and was not expected to live. Five years after the accident, GON is glad to report that Gip is doing very well. His…
Murphy and Charlie made it back to the hunting property a little after 10:30 p.m. to help Charles Lee drag The Ridgerunner from the top of the mountain. Charlie had hopped out of the truck to open the gate when Murphy’s cell phone buzzed in his pocket. As the 16-year-old fumbled with the combination lock,…
The rut, the prime time to catch a big, mature buck making a mistake, is just beginning in the mountains and southwest Georgia. Meanwhile, rutting activity started early and fast in the Piedmont, then activity disappeared in mid November, attributed primarily to a full moon and an incredible amount of white-oak acorns and other foods,…
Devin Key has been hunting all his life for a gnarly racked monster like the one he killed in south Rockdale County Oct. 24. The funny thing is, the Stockbridge hunter almost passed on a perfect, 30-yard, broadside shot because he thought the buck might be too small! But that’s the end of the story,…
If you are like me, a public-land junkie, the opening of a new wildlife management area near your hometown is a red-letter day. For folks in and around Statesboro, get ready… it’s a red-letter day! Welcome to Georgia’s newest public hunting area, Oliver Bridge Wildlife Management Area. Oliver Bridge WMA is located in the southeastern…
The number of bowhunters traveling from Georgia to the Midwest is amazing. Although the bucks there are certainly impressive, it’s not just the size of the bucks and the numbers of them. Georgia has great bucks too, but the bucks in Iowa and Illinois are a lot more killable. It’s a matter of terrain that…
With lungs sputtering short, spastic breaths, hands trembling and his right heel drumming the ground like a sewing machine, Otis Hicks forced in a deep breath, attempting to gain control of his adrenaline-soused faculties. Less than 150 yards in front of him, standing broadside in the crosshairs, almost as magnificent as the man’s dreams, was…
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