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John Kilpatrick, 16, of Thomaston, collected a $3,000 shopping spree from Adventure Outdoors after winning GON’s Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out on July 26 at GON’s Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast. In addition, John won a dream deer and hog hunting trip with Woods-N-Water outfitters in Wilkinson County. John was the only shooter who hit the Round 6…
It took seven rounds and a busted egg at 60 feet for David Shepard to win GON’s Truck-Buck 35 and collect his grand prize, a fully loaded Chevy pickup from John Megel Chevrolet. The event unfolded Sunday, July 28 at the GON’s Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast Shooters qualified for the 2024 Shoot-Out by having the highest-scoring…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, J. Strom Thurmond Lake and Dam Project, Forest, Fish, and Wildlife section, will host primitive weapons deer hunts in Bussey Point Corps Management Unit, located in Lincoln County in October, November and December this year. All hunts are limited to the first 75 hunters to arrive per day on…
As a 30-year public-land deer hunter and former WMA manager for the Georgia DNR, I know the challenges of hunting deer on public land all too well. You have hunting pressure to contend with, limited season dates, and rules that can be confusing to someone new. In this article, we’ll dive into how deer hunting…
The 2024 GON Coyote Cull is off and rolling as hunters and trappers step up to the plate to kill song dogs in an effort to save fawns and turkey poults. Listed below are all the entries of those who have found success and taken a photo with their June 2024 issue of GON. We’ll…
It lies, does the old homestead, on an island of its own. A century old now but even at that little changed, it is surrounded by the vastness of the Okefenokee Swamp. The alligators know the place well, as do the bears, the hogs, the deer. But not as well as Joe Chesser. Looking back…
Although Lake Eufaula is known as “The Bass Capitol of the World,” a smorgasbord of panfish await your hook there in July. You might struggle to catch a limit of bass in the heat of the summer, but anglers can fill a cooler with tasty panfish like bluegill, shellcracker and crappie this month. With 46,000…
It’s no secret that just about every deer hunter wants to shoot big bucks. With the exception of obtaining free-range meat and perhaps the challenge of the pursuit, it’s a top reason many of us hunters wake up so early just to sit 20 feet up in the cold, dark woods instead of…
My boys’ faces lit up with joy and excitement. “Daddy, we hit the jackpot!” Not too many things in this life rank even close to seeing such joy in the eyes of your child. It was one of those days, one of those days every Georgia outdoorsman knows all too well. The sun was scorching…
On Wednesday, June 15, 1994, Wildlife Resources Division Biologist Steve Kyles was on Ossabaw Island to give a talk about alligators to a group of Boy Scouts. At about 11:15 a.m., Steve and a group of 10 or 12 scouts and several ladies were at a gator hole at the edge of one of the…
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