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Hunting
As always, it’s a mixed bag when you’re trying to gauge the statewide success from an opening day of a new turkey season in Georgia. Generally, the south Georgia folks fared far better than their brethren in middle and north Georgia. It was cold, but a more likely cause of the tough hunting were the…
He is Georgia’s best-known crow hunter: Jerry Tomlin of Milledgeville has been hunting crows for more than 20 years. He has been guiding hunters for crows for about 13 years. You may have seen him at a Buckarama in his “Crow Roost” booth selling crow-hunting gear. He has been featured on nine television hunting shows,…
What does your hunting future hold? For those who love the outdoors, it’s an important question. The future of hunting in general is cloudy because of a variety of issues. But specifically, the future of your hunting may be cloudy for one primary reason — not having land to hunt. If a lease is where…
A disease that is killing oak trees in California has been shipped to Georgia through infected nursery plants, and officials are fearful that if the fungus escapes into the Georgia woodlands it could be devastating to oak forests here. Monrovia, a major nursery supplier in California, shipped about 28,000 plants to Georgia from January of…
It’s September, and the thoughts of most hunters are focusing on the upcoming deer season. At this point, when the season has not even opened yet, not many folks are thinking about the end of the season, but a little foresight in September can do a lot of good for your deer herd. Now is…
When my best friend and I were just a couple of years out of college, one of our favorite pastimes, outside of hunting and fishing, was talking to old men. Their stories were timeless. Real-life memories of what life was like in our town when they were young were fascinating, and hunting stories were particularly…
There are plenty of opportunities in Georgia for quail hunters to hit the fields with a dog — especially if you want to hunt with someone else’s dog shooting someone else’s birds. It’s another kind of quail hunter that’s getting scarce, the fellow who owns and feeds his bird dogs himself and keeps them in…
You can have your dream of a luxuriant food planting for deer, turkey or other game in the isolated heart of your hunting grounds. “But,” you say, “I don’t own a bulldozer or tractor, much less a trailer to haul them on.” Even if you don’t have farm machinery, or you are in an area…
If you are thinking it’s too late to plan or plant any new wildlife crops this year, think again. October is the optimum time to put in annual grasses like rye, wheat and oats or ryegrass, especially if you have access to a seed drill. You may already have all of your food plots committed…
November is a quiet time of year for habitat management, relatively speaking, but there are always a few things you could do-and things you don’t have to do-out there in your habitat. This month’s column looks at a few items on which readers have asked for more information. We recently received questions concerning minerals: if,…
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