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Hunting
• Saturday, June 11: When light hit the ground, I felt strange. Sitting a foot off the ground in a roomy box stand with my .243 rifle propped in the corner, I was ready if opportunity knocked. The thought that the chance could arise where I’d need to look through my scope and squeeze one…
Thirty minutes after fly-down time, and we hadn’t heard a gobble. This is crazy, I thought. Thomas Holcombe, 14, of Royston and I were the very first public turkey hunters on the newly purchased River Creek WMA in Thomas County. I’d heard the place was filthy with turkeys, but at this point I wasn’t so…
We were 45 minutes into a steady, hot rabbit run. Thanks to a pack of well-trained beagles, this particular swamp rabbit was having a tough time trying to end the race. Scott Hulsey from Maysville, long-time swamp-rabbit hunter, had three males on the ground, and I had two females in there with them. Standing still…
Mike Thomas of Social Circle sold me a pair of sister beagles a few years ago. Oh boy, I was in the rabbit-hunting business. So we built an off-the-ground pen with pressure-treated wood and chain-link fence, with a 55-gallon barrel in the back for sleeping quarters. Life was going to be great. On the first…
There’s nothing I love more than the sweet music a pack of beagles make as they hammer down on the trail of a cottontail. For those of you who have been, you know exactly what I’m talking about. And those of you who haven’t, find somebody with some beagles and try it at least once.…
“That made the whole trip worth it right there,” Matt Howard announced climbing to his feet. Looking 10 yards back at Brad Gill, who had been doing the turkey calling, Matt couldn’t have been more proud of his 11-year-old daughter, Sarah. “What happened?” Brad asked. “They didn’t stop, and she just didn’t shoot,” said Matt.…
It has probably been eight years ago now — one of the more memorable turkey hunts I’ve ever had. I was a student at the University of Georgia, so Tuesday afternoons during the spring quarter meant I’d be heading for my favorite WMA in search of an afternoon gobbler. I was on birds, too. I’d…
Monte’s Brittany Spaniel was getting birdy. As we watched from a Forest Service road, the dog worked the grown-up clearcut on the steep bank above us, her short tail wagging furiously. The dog crossed the slope, then turned back. “That’s unusual for her to back-track,” said Monte. “There’s a bird up there somewhere.” On December…
A 3,000-acre tract in Murray County, almost in the shadows of the rugged Cohutta Wilderness, intensively managed for deer for the past seven years. Lush food plots, supplemental feed, minerals, and selective harvest should have caused what has traditionally been a low deer population to literally explode. Seven years on 3,000 acres, where not a…
We met up with Jeff Foxworthy on a February morning in Troup County in 2001. The Realtree Video Productions crew was busy getting cameras and gear ready for their final shoot before finishing Jeff’s second comedy hunting video, “The Return of the Incomplete Deer Hunter.” Problem was, the star of the show was missing. No,…
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