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It’s been said that bowhunters alone won’t be able to reduce a deer population. According to Clayton County Water Authority (CCWA) personnel, its deer population has dropped in half thanks to bowhunting efforts. Prior to 1996 the CCWA had deer problems — an estimated 80 to 100 deer per square mile, according to Jep Palmer,…
Samantha, a 15-year-old girl from Worth County, took home the Ladies Wild-Card for the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out. And she came within a couple of inches of beating her dad, Week 1 winner Gary King, out of the season’s bragging rights for the family’s biggest buck as well. Samantha is no stranger to Truck-Buck, finishing second in…
On Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004, Phillip Harper was having the best hunt of his life. In a few hours in the stand, Phillip got to see bucks chasing does, bucks making scrapes, and fighting activity. As he sat watching the deer in front of him, Phillip had no idea that his hunt was about to…
A DeKalb County bow-kill took top honors for the second time in three weeks when Brian Mitchell of Madison connected on a nice 8-point buck. Brian, who makes his living as a DeKalb County firefighter, has some good hunting land where he lives in Morgan County, but he likes to hunt small tracts in DeKalb,…
John Lewis, of Hogansville, had been so busy with his work as a criminal investigator for Coweta County, he scarcely had time to hunt during archery season. And though John had been able to take a doe, he wanted to harvest something with antlers. On September 28, John took off from work at his normal…
Redemption is a powerful thing. Most hunters who miss the buck of a lifetime only serve to educate the deer, perhaps never even gaining another look at it. But Taylor McCann, who missed a big buck on opening afternoon of the 2003-04 season, got another chance just a few days into the 2004-05 season, and…
Marshall Compton of Conyers will shoot as the week one representative on the strength of his non-typical buck, which netted 146 5/8 inches. “I was happy with second place, and then GON called to see if I wanted to shoot,” Marshall said after Gary King relinquished his Week 1 first-place spot so his daughter could…
Gary King, of Oakfield, has killed some nice bucks during his hunting career. And because he lives on the 4,600-acre tract of Worth County land he hunts, he understands deer better than most. But when Gary climbed into his stand on a hot, humid afternoon in September, he couldn’t have imagined his hunt would produce…
A few years ago, state wildlife biologists recognized a very serious problem on Red Top Mountain State Park in Bartow County: the deer population had reached critcal mass. With booming growth in metro Atlanta, there is a sharp line between developed areas and park boundaries, meaning Red Top became a sanctuary for deer and other…
Falling out of a tree stand is the most common way for a deer hunter to be seriously injured. Last season 15 hunters pitched out of trees to the ground and were injured. The number represents nearly 33 percent of all hunting incidents. The 15 tree-stand falls included one fatality in which a 61-year-old man…
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