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Hunting
Most bowhunters relish the thought of downing a record-book whitetail. But, as any deer hunter will attest, it’s not an easy feat to accomplish. Prior to last hunting season a total of 295 Georgia bow-bucks had met the minimum 125 score for inclusion in the Pope and Young (P&Y) record book. Of those, only nine had antlers that netted 150 inches or better. In 2001…
Daylight was creeping through the trees as I nestled high in the solitary oak among the pines. The familiar click of the nock biting the string officially started another day of hunting. But I wasn’t hunting just any buck, I was hunting the biggest buck sign I had found on our entire club. It was…
I stumbled across some interesting information on the Internet a while ago concerning the origin of Murphy’s Law (“If anything can go wrong,it will”). It seems that in California back in 1949 there was an Air Force Captain named Edward Murphy. He was an engineer working on a troublesome military project and coined the phrase after running into problem after problem. Now I don’t have…
Wild pigs — love ’em or hate ’em, everyone has an opinion. No matter how you feel, there’s a strong interest among hunters who want their chance at some juicy backstraps simmered in barbecue sauce, and WRD is making it easy for those of you who love to hunt them. Quite a few of Georgia’s WMAs have a hunt able population of wild hogs, and most of…
“Bow season is the best time to hunt bears,” said 37-year-old Jeff Sanford, of Ranger. Jeff ought to know — in the past 10 seasons he has killed seven bears in north Georgia. Five of those bears have been bow kills, including a 335-lb. Cohutta WMA bear that exceeded the Pope & Young minimum skull…
One of the most beautiful mountain views in Georgia, a vista overlooking a deep gorge that frames a river tumbling over rocky shoals, is located not in the north Georgia mountains, but 60 miles south of Atlanta. Sprewell Bluff Natural Area is unique, and not only in topography. Located at the three-corners of Upson, Meriwether and Talbot counties, the property on both sides of this stretch of…
Imagine a slow drift in a camouflaged canoe two months from now. The leaves are just starting to turn gold and auburn. There’s a slight and somewhat chilly breeze across the back of your neck. Your trusty 12-gauge is strategically laid in the bottom of the canoe, along with a box of high-brass No. 6s.…
Nothing is more critical in deer-hunting success than bullet placement. When you pull the trigger on your deer rifle, you should be completely confident that the bullet will hit where you aimed. The only way to have that confidence and to improve your marksmanship is to shoot your gun. Shooting glasses and ear protection are…
Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge’s 35,000 acres of rolling terrain in Jones and Jasper counties may be the best public-hunting property in Georgia. My father certainly thought so in 1967 when he applied for a couple of deer-hunt permits and we went on our first deer hunt. Neither one of us had any real idea what…
It’s the opening day that Winchester, Remington, Federal, Fiochi, and other shotgun-shell manufacturers love — dove season. Georgia’s 2002 dove season opens September 7 in the Northern Zone, and on September 28 in the Southern Zone. From a shotgun-shell manufacturer’s point of view, doves are the perfect game bird. Put simply, they are difficult to…
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