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Hunting
It was still long before daylight on that eventful morning when I settled into my climbing stand. With my safety strap cinched, my possibles bag secured to the side of the stand, and my Thomson/Center Hawkin loaded and capped — I was ready. As I looked up at the brilliant array of stars dancing through…
A new Bobwhite Quail Initiative (BQI) license tag will be available at tag offices across the state beginning in December, 2003. The new tag depicts a white-tail buck standing in front of a covey of flushing quail. Proceeds from the sale of the tag are used to pay for the BQI program, a WRD effort…
All it took was that one duck hunt. The year was 1961, and the location was a beaver swamp behind what is now known as the Kenny Rogers estate outside of Athens, although Kenny has since sold the sprawling property. Back then, it had a swamp. And it had ducks. Eli Ingram of Athens was…
Read a few hunting magazines this time of year and you’d think there’s nothing to killing a big, mature buck — all you have to do is hunt during the peak of the rut. Of course, if it were that easy, we’d all have a room-full of giant deer racks. Fair-chase hunting is never that…
Itʼs a button-head dilemma. You have your crosshairs locked in on an antlerless deer, but is it a doe or a button buck? Most deer hunters would like to pass up button bucks — if they could just tell for sure which deer was and which deer wasnʼt. There are some characteristics that will help you…
Days pass under the comfortable blanket of routine. The mundane stresses seem so important, then in an instant real life hits like a sudden uppercut to the jaw… like the sound of breaking glass and the deafening wail of a burglar alarm. Jack shot straight up in bed. Loud steps pounded down the hallway, then…
Whatʼs the highest-scoring 8-point buck in Georgia? Now there is an official answer to this often-asked question. Georgiaʼs best 8-pointer was killed in Morgan County by Jimmy Osborne, of Doraville, on opening day of firearms season, 1968. Jimmy, then 28 years old, was with his dad, Blue Osborne. The father-and-son team had done a lot…
Georgiaʼs early teal and goose season began on Saturday, September 20, and most hunters GON talked to said that teal were scarce. According to Greg Balkcom, Georgia WRDʼs waterfowl biologist, teal numbers are generally lowest along the Savannah River, better in the middle part of the state in places like along the Ocmulgee River, and…
The sounds outside, the rain and wind and rumble of thunder, could have been a thousand miles away. There was silence under here, except for the repetitive drip of a small rivulet of water that fell through an unseen crevice to the dank floor of the cave. Jack Elliot stood like an outside linebacker set…
Every so often, a relic recovered from some dusty tomb, or a fragment of bone fossilized in rock, helps historians fill in one more gap in the story of the past. Similarly, it happens every now and then that a Georgia whitetail buck killed decades ago, brought to light by circumstance, is finally put down…
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