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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…
Allen Rudolph of Eatonton eats, breaths and lives for deer hunting. Since moving to Georgia in 1998, he’s spent countless hours on Cedar Creek WMA and the Oconee National Forest. On Friday, Nov. 9, all that hard scouting and hunting effort was rewarded with a 140-class bruiser buck from Cedar Creek WMA. “Somebody kills a 140-class…
Doug Carter of Nichols sent GON this photo of a deer with extremely long hooves. He said he killed the deer during archery season 2006 in Ware County. When he killed the deer he didn’t notice anything unusual about how the deer was walking on the turned-up hooves. “The deer came up behind me and…
On Oct. 13, 2007, three generations of Davis hunters, grandfather Roy, his son Mike, and Mike’s son Dakota, each shot a buck with a muzzleloader on a hunting club in Polk County. For Roy, it was his first muzzleloader buck, and Dakota’s 4-pointer was the first deer he’d ever killed. “Mike and Dakota were hunting…
“Cut him loose, and he gets down to business,” said Rocket Fuel’s han- dler, Chris Haynes. Rocket did. Without a look back, he snuffled off into the darkness of a crisp December evening outside of LaGrange, nose to the ground, with a neon collar light marking his progress through the hard- wood creek bottom. Less…
Deer season has about run out. It turned into a job — slapping 4 a.m. alarm clocks and lugging climbers around — didn’t it? Ready to get that predatory surge of adrenaline pumping through those hunting veins again? It’s time to hunt hogs. If you love to hunt and have never stalked hogs, you are…
A buck was growing year-by-year, and the giant main- frame 8-pointer was well-known among some serious hunters and deer managers, who named the buck “Hooker.” If there ever was a polar opposite to the tale of the Cherokee County buck — taken with a bow, in a fragmented river habitat and never seen before by…
Clint jumped off the front porch and raced across the yard. He sprinted toward the trail through the pines with his heart choking his throat. “If anything has happened to that dog…” He had to block the thought from his mind. He was uncertain of exactly where the shot had come from after Mitzi had…
I was bowhunting in central Illinois when I received a phone call on Wednesday night, Oct. 17. A good friend and client of mine was calling to tell me that one of our mutual friends, Chad McCook of Woodstock, had harvested a huge deer with his bow in Cherokee County. He initially said the deer…
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