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Hunting
I’ll never forget the first time I saw him. It was a windy morning, November 10, 2004. I was sitting with Glenn Garner in a double-ladder stand we call Olympus, which sits atop a ridge on one of our Harris County properties. While we hunt alone a lot, we sit together whenever we have a…
Land where hunting had not been allowed and where deer populations had grown so large that habitat was being damaged enticed more than 8,000 folks to apply for 605 spots on four state-park quota hunts, and the results did not disappoint. Overall on the four hunts, 457 hunters showed up, and they killed 394 deer…
Guy Nelson is 7 years old and absolutely nuts about hunting. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the future of a hunter start out so promising. I took him turkey hunting last spring. He was still too small to handle a shotgun, but he just wanted to spend a morning roaming the woods. At daylight…
It would be impossible to guess how many Georgia duck hunts have been salvaged by the high-pitched, unmistakable squeal of approaching wood ducks. A duck hunt in Georgia is often a wood-duck-only affair. Countless are the times — crazy as it seems — that I’ve gotten up at a ridiculous hour, driven too many miles,…
Just after daylight on December 14, Leonard Hampton and I were stalking squirrels on his Oglethorpe County hunting lease. We were following a small drain through big hardwoods hoping to see or hear a squirrel — and it didn’t take long. We heard the scrape of squirrel claws on bark and saw two gray squirrels…
While some hunters still say they aren’t seeing the number of deer they’re accustomed to seeing, based on a variety of indicators it has been a boom year for big bucks in Georgia. For sheer numbers of 130- to 160-class bucks, this may be the very best year GON has ever heard about. We’ll begin to…
Most hunters picked for one of the Ossabaw Island quota deer hunts this season found the hunting tougher than normal, at least compared to the heyday for high hunter-success rates in the late 1990s. Several factors have changed the way hunters have to go about collecting venison and pork. For the first time in a…
Let’s talk reality hunting. A lot of our subscribers hunt just like me, on pine-infested timberland. My hunting club has a decent deer population, and it receives some moderate hunting pressure. So, how would two expert deer hunters approach this piece of property and where would they hunt? We invited John Seginak and John Stanley…
When a deer overpopulation problem began to develop on 9,200 acres of Dalton Utilities property in Murray and Whitfield counties, instead of hiring sharpshooters or listening to the rhetoric of “birth control” as a solution, the company first invited hunters to help manage the deer herd. The result for hunters was access to some excellent…
Randy hadn’t even got situated in his stand yet when his 13-year-old son Hunter Crumpler shot. Randy, from Townsend, headed 75 yards away to learn that Hunter had shot at a big bear. This all happened Saturday, November 12 on a Dixon Memorial WMA bear/deer hunt. After a quick search Hunter discovered the big male…
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