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The cold air had my eyes just about in tears as Martin Johnson and I rolled down a wet four-wheeler trail straight for the Savannah River swamp in Screven County. Just off the road sat a very relaxed Mike Dotschay of Sylvania. He was leaned back on his four-wheeler with his back against a metal…
John Sale has had a lifelong love affair with hunting dogs. During the height of his career during the ʼ70s and ʼ80s, people used to kid about his amazing ability to train quality bird dogs. People would often say, “Why heʼs so good, he could even train a goat to point a covey of quail!”…
The sun dipped below the treeline, and it was like someone turned downed the thermostat and turned off the breeze at the same time. That cool air felt good. Here it was mid November, and a frost had yet to coat the ground. Maybe tonight, Jack hoped. Not only had there been spring-like warmth all…
Jasper County strikes again. Now when you look at GON‘s County-by-County listings each October you’ll see that the best five Jasper County deer listed are Boone & Crocketts! That’s getting right up there with the south Georgia powerhouses like Macon and Worth counties. However, these Jasper County Booners are all from the 1950s and 1960s…
There are few more satisfying, more intense moments in the outdoors than the sight of a big group of mallards locked up, wings set, descending into a decoy spread. But unless you hunt polar bears on an Arctic ice drift, being a die-hard duck hunter in Georgia has to be one of the most-challenging pursuits…
Bowhunters on a Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge bow hunt were kicked off the island by an angry refuge manager who closed the hunt citing safety concerns over a dead rattlesnake. A total of 174 hunters were on the island for the three-day hunt, which began Thursday, October 23, 2003. Thursday evening a dead eastern…
The first brilliant yellow rays of the morning sun hit the tops of the giant oak trees. Not a single cloud blotted the sky, not the faintest hint of a breeze stirred the brown and drying leaves. That morning, November 1, dawned cold and crisp, 28 degrees, and the first frost of the season coated…
Last fall, on Oct. 1, 2002, I had just returned from hanging a nice doe in the local cooler and was pryin’ my rubber boots off when the phone rang. It was my good friend and fellow hunting-club member Mike Whitehead. “John, Ronald got a good one,” he said. “Great! How big is he?’ “Don’t…
It was still long before daylight on that eventful morning when I settled into my climbing stand. With my safety strap cinched, my possibles bag secured to the side of the stand, and my Thomson/Center Hawkin loaded and capped — I was ready. As I looked up at the brilliant array of stars dancing through…
A new Bobwhite Quail Initiative (BQI) license tag will be available at tag offices across the state beginning in December, 2003. The new tag depicts a white-tail buck standing in front of a covey of flushing quail. Proceeds from the sale of the tag are used to pay for the BQI program, a WRD effort…
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