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Hunting
There is a new food plot on Dawson Forest WMA, coming up lush and green after all the summer rain. The high-quality plot was planted not by WRD personnel, however, but by volunteers. In late June, volunteers trailered in their own equipment to plant WRD’s seed and fertilizer. “I had three volunteers with tractors,” said…
For the second year in a row, Lee County is No. 1 in Georgia in the 2005 rankings when it comes to producing high-scoring bucks. GON has rated the big-buck production of counties for 12 years. In nine of those years Macon County was No. 1, every year except in 2000 when Dooly County slipped…
The old buckʼs head snapped to attention, ears and eyes scanning, searching for something that had alarmed it. For an hour the buck had grazed in a hayfield in the middle of night undisturbed. To the buckʼs left, a mile over the treeline, a single-cell summer thunderstorm raged beyond the Ocmulgee River. The thunderhead, black…
To make the Boone & Crockett Record Book, a typical buck must score at least 170 inches. Tony Lewis of Cordele hammered a Dooly County buck on a drizzly day in November that would eclipse the minimum by better than 10 inches. Tony, who says he doesn’t hunt as much as he used to since…
My first hunting memories were born on B.F. Grant WMA. Growing up east of Atlanta, dad and I wore some tires out running back and forth to this 14,000-acre Putnam County WMA, roaming hardwood hillsides and creek bottoms for squirrels and turkeys. In the early 1990s I killed my first turkey there. The first drake…
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…
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