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Hunting
For the third consecutive year GON has given away a Realtree turkey-hunting dream trip to a kid in an effort to encourage more youth involvement in hunting and other outdoor activities. Realtree has been gracious enough to host these dream hunts and put our winning kids on some of the finest turkey-hunting land in the…
Before dawn last archery season, Luis Izquierdo was on the way to his bow stand at Misty Oaks Plantation in Worth County when he stumbled across an amazing scene. While jumping a barbed-wire fence separating two fields, a doe had caught one hoof between the top two strands, which twisted together and trapped the deerʼs…
On April 18, 2001, Gov. Roy Barnes added his signature to House Bill 301, the “right to hunt and fish” law, bringing a successful end to nearly six months of effort by the Conservation Congress and the Legislative Sportsman’s Delegation to achieve greater legal protection for outdoor sports. House Bill 301, known also as the…
An errant 8-point buck went on a wild rampage through an Ellenwood Kroger store before five shoppers, who happen to be deer hunters, and the store co-manager tackled the deer and eventually released it back to the wild. At about 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 20, Rick Burdett, of Stockbridge, was about to exit the…
Never before have so many grown men cried. I’m not the least bit ashamed to admit I was one of them. By the time the networks broke the news that Dale Earnhardt didn’t make it this time, we already knew. The celebration for Michael Waltrip had just begun in Daytona’s Victory Lane, and Mike Rhodes,…
More than 300 people searched the Taliaferro County woods the night of December 27 in a search for a teenaged hunter who became lost in the woods after leaving his deer stand. Ben Davis, 14, of Washington, son of Washington Police Chief Mike Davis, was lost in the woods near Raytown for approximately 16 hours…
On Dec. 30, Buddy Judd, of Macon, was deer hunting in Crawford County. As he still hunted through some planted pines, he heard the distinct sound of a deer stomping its foot. Buddy stopped to scan the woods but was puzzled that he could see nothing despite having a clear view for 50 or 60…
Every year, GON readers send us photos of unusual deer they have killed. Hereʼs a look at some of the odd-ball deer from the 2000 season.
Doug Parker is one of 252 Georgia DNR Law Enforcement officers. Doug is assigned to Cobb County. He has been a conservation ranger for 12 months, after a stint with the Peachtree City Police Department. Doug, 31, who lives in Cobb County with his wife Stacey, has been involved in law enforcement for 10 years.…
The hounds were sounding half-hearted in their attempts at treeing a coon, so Glenn Cauley of Soperton, decided to catch them and move to another location. As his snakeproof boots swished through the underbrush on a hot night in September, Glenn’s mind was a world away from the horror of rattlesnake bite. But only a…
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