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Hunting

May 2010 Wildlife In Mind

In May, your thoughts possibly turn to bedding bream, bass that are starting to hit topwater lures, or your favorite trout stream. Turkey season is all but spent. Deer hunting is only a daydream, or maybe a re-run of a television hunting show caught while you’re inside in the air conditioning. But some interesting things…

Play The Terrain To Kill Mountain Gobblers

As the sights and sounds of spring fill the mountains and valleys of north Georgia, turkeys are gobbling, and opening day left some hunters happy, while it left others hungry for more time in the woods. While many things are different about hunting gobblers in the mountains as opposed to the flatter land of central…

Ossabaw Check Station Burns To The Ground

The check station on Ossabaw Island, a structure many Georgia hunters are familiar with, burned to the ground Feb. 28 following the Feb. 25-27 hog hunt. Apparently the fire was the result of a campfire that was not completely extinguished when hunters left the island. According to Ed Van Ottern, Game Management supervisor for Region…

Youth Turkey Hunters Hear Gospel… And Some Pretty Good Gobblin’

Five turkeys — four longbeards and a jake — hit the dirt opening day, thanks to a youth turkey hunt outside of Eatonton. Hosted by Crossroads Baptist Church and God’s Great Outdoors Ministries, the Youth Turkey Hunt hosted 24 young turkey hunters for opening weekend. Many of the young, camo-clad hunters said the birds were…

Use Technology For Better Turkey Hunting

Out of all the gear the average turkey hunter packs in his vest or backpack, there is a very good chance the most valuable and overlooked tool remains stashed away in a closet waiting for deer season — the trail camera. For 10 years I have used trail cameras religiously for deer, but three years…

Warm Season Deer Food Plots

Interest in food plots and quality deer management are at an all-time high with hunters and hunting-land managers across the nation. Producing better deer herds is the main goal. Given this increase in interest and available information on the subject, it is surprising how many food-plot programs consist of scratching in a few bags of…

Wildlife in Mind – March 2010

If you’re enjoying the hands-on habitat work we’ve been discussing so far this year, then you’ll enjoy March: It brings some of the first opportunities for you to start seeing the rewards of your work. Burned areas will first begin a miraculous explosion of green (which, by the way, makes for a very likely spot…

Plant Spring Food Plots To Improve Your Deer

Spring and summer may be the times when your deer herd needs you the most. Don’t assume you can forget about deer now, and they will be big, healthy deer next fall. There are antlers to grow and fawns to feed! There is an amazing selection of spring plantings for sale. A recent survey of…

Savannah’s First Turkey

I’ve not missed an opening day of turkey season in Putnam County in more than 30 years. It’s the day real turkey hunters look forward to more than any other. We normally start to anticipate this day about dark on the last day of turkey season. I don’t say this to be funny; I’m dead…

Wildlife in Mind: February 2010

A lot of hunters and habitat managers already own one of the best pieces of habitat-improvement equipment money can buy and don’t even know it. It’s their chainsaw. Good for much more than keeping the hunting camp supplied with firewood, a chainsaw ranks right up there with your food-plot equipment for its ability to create…

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