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Hunting
What to do with a crisp, beautiful Saturday in November… In our busy lives the options are endless: stay home, build a fire, and watch football. Then again, it’s prime time to see a mature buck, maybe slip back to the creek stand. Or maybe it’s opening day of duck season, and you’re just minutes…
Cody Dalton isn’t your average 15-year-old hunter. Before his dream hunt to Little River Plantation in November he’d killed 33 deer, 13 of them with a bow. In fact, he took 13 deer in the 2004 season, one of them being on a check-in hunt at Ossabaw where the deer didn’t count against his state…
GON has been running a list of deer-trailing dog owners for the past several years as a way to ensure our readers would have every possible advantage when it comes to locating a deer. We also began to hear some neat stories, so we called a few folks and asked them to share their experiences…
For three years me and a couple of the boys from the office, along with some family and friends, have been hunting a 900-acre piece of old Weyerhaeuser timber land covered with thick pines, briars, clearcuts and a few hardwood drains. The club has lots of deer on it, so we’ve enjoyed the luxury of…
Want to kill a big buck? Simple, hunt the rut. That’s what you’ve been told year after year. Hunt high where you can see a long way, hunt all day, but most importantly, just hunt during the peak of the rut. Of course, deer hunting is not that easy, particularly when your sights are set…
I’m proud of my beagles. They run their little hearts out, and they allow me to kill plenty of rabbits every year. All-in-all, they run real good. Reality check! On October 15 I covered a Mid-Georgia Beagle Club field trial in Jackson, and I saw some excellent hounds compete in a day full of exciting,…
Blame it on the south Georgia heat and bugs, blame it on how tough bowhunting can be, or, like some of those who attended the hunts, blame it on a simple lack of deer. The first two bowhunts on River Creek, Georgia’s newest WMA, produced zero deer. Both had quotas of 30 — 20 bowhunters…
About this time of year, thoughts of a sagging-bellied, wide-racked mature buck begin to wane for me. My neck starts to hurt from looking up, and my Georgia friends stop answering my phone calls. They know what I’m going to ask, “Seen any ducks?” My passion for duck hunting is fostered from a lineage straight…
It’s funny how a simple smell can take you back to a time and place that has been long stored away in the deepest recesses of your mind. One slight trace of some magical odor, and suddenly you are back in that exact place as if it were yesterday. So it was on opening day…
Tyler was frozen, petrified with fear. When his flashlight went out, the darkness of the woods next to Asbury Manor had collapsed over him, surrounding him in impenetrable darkness. He stood, blinded by the night, terrified by the sounds he had heard of something stalking him. A high-grade dose of adrenaline coursed through his veins,…
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