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Hunting
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,…
Reading a gobbler’s mood and following it up with the right call can be a deadly combination this spring. The importance of this lesson was taught to me on opening day quite a few years ago in Hancock County. My good friend Cal Marsh and I had struck out on opening morning. Right before lunch…
As a landowner or a land manager, you are probably familiar with some of the various government programs that offer cost-share incentives for soil, habitat and wildlife conservation practices that you implement. Well, beginning in January there will be a brand new program to take advantage of in Georgia, and it stands to be the…
I had been set up for 30 minutes. Now I was wondering if I had made the right decision in choosing the location. The area felt right, the sign was there, but still you never really know until you have that gobbler in front of your gun barrel. I knew patience would be the key.…
The state’s latest batch of poult numbers are in, and the news isn’t great for hunters gearing up for the March 25, 2006 turkey-season opener in Georgia. Don’t expect to see a pile of jakes this season, and if you look at WRD poult data from the year before, don’t look for too many crazy,…
“I hate hogs,” Ricky Crook said to me across the front seat of his pickup. If anybody hates hogs, it’s definitely Ricky. “I killed 35 last week,” he said. Thirty-five! Good grief, the man does have some kind of hog problems. Ricky deer hunts several tracts of land in Sumter County. One tract he hunts…
Out-of-state hunters always seem to get the big bucks, and it’s apparently true as well of Georgia hunters traveling to Florida. Cody Thomas, of Savannah, accepted an offer to go hunting with his girlfriend’s brother on some well-managed land in Leon County near Monticello, Fla., and the result puts him in the Florida record books…
North Georgia bear hunters this year set a new record for total numbers of bears harvested, taking 259 bears. The number eclipses the previous record of 256 set in 2003 and follows a slow hunting season during the 2004 season. The rebound year was not unexpected. “We figured that this would be a bounce-back year…
If I were a newcomer into the turkey-hunting world, my head would explode with all the choices I had when it came to picking out a gun and then trying to find the best loads to produce the most effective pattern on that gun. If your gun doesn’t produce a good pattern out to 40 yards,…
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