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Hunting
Last year, on April 5, Sean Bennett of Statesboro killed a freakish, eight- bearded, Treutlen County gobbler that broke a 7-year-old state record. The funny thing is, the bird was not particularly old or large, it just had a whole lot of beard. A score of 152.25 was good enough to beat out the old…
GON subscriber Robert Williams sent in these photos of two bucks that were found in a Lincoln County farm pond. “They must have gotten into the water during the fight and were unable to get out before drowning,”Robert said. Robert’s daughter, Edie Williams, and friend Tamara Williford were riding horses on the Williford family’s Lincoln…
Believe it or not, there is little difference between the behavior of whitetail bucks and gobbler turkeys. Think about it, both species spend time in bachelor groups except during their breeding seasons when they become very territorial — gobblers in the spring and bucks in the fall. This is when they are vulnerable. I learned…
Robby Alley from Jonesboro was trying to fill his freezer before deer season was over. It was late morning on Dec. 31, and Robby sat looking out across a clearcut on the Double-D Hunting Club in Meriwether County. “Three does came through, and I shot two out of the three,” said Robby. When Robby walked…
Webster’s dictionary defines complacency as, “self satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies.” This is a perilous state in life, and in the world of a turkey hunter, it eventually spells doom. When we hunt turkeys in a state of complacency, we are setting our- selves up for failure. It is probably…
I don’t know who said it first, but memory is the paradise from which we cannot be expelled. I vividly remember my first pair of hunting boots, my first shotgun and my first deer, but most of all I remember my first dog. She was a great gal. Just ask any dog lover, and they’ll…
For most hunters, finding a good shed antler is a pleasant side note to a post-season scouting trip or a spring morning spent in the turkey woods. For David Brannen, shed hunting is an activity in itself. He refers to it as a passion, and it incites in him the same level of enthusiasm as…
We were walking a waist-high field of cover frozen hard by the winter’s first real cold front behind an energetic French continental pointer. Baylee, a Braque Du Bourbonnais the other guides jokingly called a French poodle, was doing his job, methodically working one section of the tall grass and briars with his nose, seeking out…
The Georgia State Park system opened three new parks to its deer management quota-hunt program, and the hunter-success rate for the hunts that had taken place at presstime ranged from good to spectacular. At the Dec. 8-9 quota hunt at Tugaloo State Park on Lake Hartwell, 17 hunters using bows or crossbows killed 38 deer…
Despite the drought, many duck hunters have had a good season already. If you have water in your pond or beaver pond, you are likely to have some woodies. Here are some reports from around the state: • Altamaha WMA: Jay Daniell of Tifton said the hunting was good on Rhetts Island on Dec. 15…
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