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Hunting
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,…
If kids are the future of hunting and fishing, the Ducks Unlimited Greenwings event in Walton County provided an encouraging display of support. On August 13, the Walton County Ducks Unlimited Chapter held its annual Greenwings event in Social Circle at Jaw-Doc Farm owned by Dr. David Allen. According to Georgia DU Greenwings coordinator Louie…
Every September you probably take the same approach to the opening day of dove season that many people do: sit and wait for a friend with a good dove field to invite you on a shoot. If so, it may seem a little early to start thinking about a good dove shoot, but not if…
As always, it’s a mixed bag when you’re trying to gauge the statewide success from an opening day of a new turkey season in Georgia. Generally, the south Georgia folks fared far better than their brethren in middle and north Georgia. It was cold, but a more likely cause of the tough hunting were the…
He is Georgia’s best-known crow hunter: Jerry Tomlin of Milledgeville has been hunting crows for more than 20 years. He has been guiding hunters for crows for about 13 years. You may have seen him at a Buckarama in his “Crow Roost” booth selling crow-hunting gear. He has been featured on nine television hunting shows,…
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