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Hunting
Shooting 3-D archery tournaments is reportedly one of the fastest-growing sports around. At GON, however, no one had ever shot one of the tournaments. We thought we would go pay our fee and try one out to see what the buzz was about. The Lake Oconee Shooting Club near Eatonton had a tournament scheduled for…
According to the turkey hunters GON talked to, the opening weekend gobbling ran the scale from dead slow to gobblin’ their heads off. Some hunters reported birds coming straight in off the roost, gobbling all the way in. Others didn’t hear a peep. Generally, most gobbling occurred early, and once the birds hit the ground,…
Two years ago this May, the staff of the Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) moved into our new national headquarters outside Athens. While we are happy to be in a permanent, new and very practical facility, it is the 23 acres surrounding the building that most excites the staff members who love to experiment with…
At the ripe old age of 14, there’s not a whole lot left for Keenan Adams to achieve in the world of turkey hunting — he’s just about done it all. Actually, most folks would say he had just about done it all back in 2003, when at 9 years old he became the youngest…
If you pay attention to the information an uncooperative gobbler provides you each morning, you may be able to turn the tables on the tom during an afternoon hunt. The wind was blowing fairly hard when I got out of my vehicle at approximately 4 p.m. for a late-afternoon turkey hunt. I checked my equipment,…
I was feeling pretty confident as I stood beside my hunting partner Bobby Knight. It was opening day of turkey season and the orange glow of the eastern sky began to push the darkness from around us. The woods were coming to life as a half a dozen or so barred owls began their morning…
Opening day of turkey season is a date that every turkey hunter in Georgia looks forward to each year. For my dad and I, the 2004 season was only the second year we had looked forward to opening day of turkey season. We are both active deer hunters and my dad, Jeff Sr., is a…
I spend just about every Saturday in December, January and February with good friends. We meet at daylight, finish coffee and biscuits, cut-up for a minute or two and then get down to serious business: rabbit hunting. I’m blessed to hunt with Aubrey Holcombe, aka Daddy Rabbit. We’re both very lucky to have access to…
Georgia deer hunters have become food-plot specialists in recent years in attempts to both improve the health of the local deer and enhance their hunting opportunities. There has also been an increased interest in recent years in planting trees to benefit deer and turkeys. Oaks, apples, persimmons and crabapples are but a few of the…
These days, hunters throw out terms like G1s and abnormal kicker deducts like everybody knows what they’re talking about. Deer scoring is high interest among hunters in Georgia. The method accepted and recognized by most is the Boone & Crockett (B&C) method. The Boone & Crockett Club is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1887…
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