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Hunting
They say you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. This is especially true of your glory days, your golden years — that part of your life when you were wild and free. You felt like you would live forever; you could take on life and kick its butt. My glory days were from…
It sure seemed dark, a thick blanket of fog not helping matters. With no warning, a half-dozen black forms swung out of the fog in front and banked hard left, not 30 yards off the water, and landed on down the willow-lined bank just out of shotgun range. I checked the time — five minutes…
Twenty yards ahead of us, the little bell on Alder’s collar quit tinkling… our big male setter was on point! The privet was so thick in the river bottom, we were eight yards from the dog before we saw him… another three yards, and the bird flushed. As it cleared the privet, shotguns roared…
On October 23, Jeff Sutton, 42, of Barnesville went hunting on a lease in Lamar County near Milan. At about 4:15 on a windy after- noon, Jeff left his truck and walked 15 minutes to a small, overgrown swampy area about 20 yards wide that was the low spot between three soybean fields. In that…
Opening day dove shoots are long over, but if shooting doves is still high on your list, you can find some birds and some good shooting throughout Georgia in December. Whether it’s farms, food plots, clearcuts, or powerlines, doves can be found in good numbers, especially the migrating birds flying down from up north to…
Georgia isn’t known for its red-hot duck hunting. We are a long way from the rice fields of Arkansas and clouds of mallards. For most Georgia duck hunters a good morning hunting means you were able to slog into a beaver-pond swamp and scratch down your pair of woodies. There are some exceptions. Some private…
November deer hunting was awesome for some folks, specifically those who hunt in the middle third of the state. Some hunters report that once the rut got started it just kept going and going. Some report that mature bucks were still chasing does as late as the weekend before Thanksgiving. A few deer-cooler operators report…
November in the Georgia deer woods almost looked like the start of a new era; big-bodied, heavy-racked bucks almost seemed to come out of the woodwork. Some deer-cooler operators and hunters have reported a great rut with lots of deer on the move. November may help cushion 2006 as one of the best years…
Georgia hunters are blessed to have a long deer season. There aren’t many states with four months on the calendar where one can chase bucks across the state’s widely varied landscape. Another thing we are blessed with in Georgia is an abundance of small-game hunting opportunities. And if you don’t believe folks are doing it,…
How do you kill a mature buck during the peak of the rut? Techniques and theories for hunting the rut abound. Hunt all day because bucks are on the move, hunt high in a place you can see a long distance, hunt where the does are feeding because they’ll attract a buck. Those techniques might…
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