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Hunting
Two minutes after midnight on the new moon in August, clouds hid the stars and a light wind kept the mosquitoes from landing on Lee Blantonʼs face. With his rifle propped on a pine limb, Lee flipped a switch on a camo-covered spotlight attached to the bottom barrel of his gun and a two-acre pea…
Georgiaʼs public hunting areas include a mixture of national and state land, including Wildlife Management Areas, Natural Areas, National Forests and a few State Parks that are open for hunting. The choices are scattered all over the state and include a wide variety of habitat and hunting opportunities. So how do you choose one if…
About 25 years ago the hunting-accessories industry was still in its infancy, and in most parts of Georgia wild hogs were not a problem, or a pleasure, and were seldom if ever mentioned where hunters gathered. The flourishing deer populations had only recently rejuvenated the sport of big-game hunting in the state, and the only…
Last fall, as the Georgia deer season began to inch ever closer, the buzz among serious big-buck hunters was heating up. Factor after factor began to align, all favorable, all pointing toward the possibility — no, the probability — that the coming season was going to be a good one for big, mature, heavy-racked bucks. Last year, in…
The hunter had scouted the middle Georgia WMA two weeks before the quota hunt was to begin. He had combined the trip to include a squirrel hunt, along with the scouting, as the area was open to small-game hunting right up to the occurrence of the first deer hunt. One beautiful ridge of white and red…
The cold air had my eyes just about in tears as Martin Johnson and I rolled down a wet four-wheeler trail straight for the Savannah River swamp in Screven County. Just off the road sat a very relaxed Mike Dotschay of Sylvania. He was leaned back on his four-wheeler with his back against a metal…
John Sale has had a lifelong love affair with hunting dogs. During the height of his career during the ʼ70s and ʼ80s, people used to kid about his amazing ability to train quality bird dogs. People would often say, “Why heʼs so good, he could even train a goat to point a covey of quail!”…
The sun dipped below the treeline, and it was like someone turned downed the thermostat and turned off the breeze at the same time. That cool air felt good. Here it was mid November, and a frost had yet to coat the ground. Maybe tonight, Jack hoped. Not only had there been spring-like warmth all…
Jasper County strikes again. Now when you look at GON‘s County-by-County listings each October you’ll see that the best five Jasper County deer listed are Boone & Crocketts! That’s getting right up there with the south Georgia powerhouses like Macon and Worth counties. However, these Jasper County Booners are all from the 1950s and 1960s…
There are few more satisfying, more intense moments in the outdoors than the sight of a big group of mallards locked up, wings set, descending into a decoy spread. But unless you hunt polar bears on an Arctic ice drift, being a die-hard duck hunter in Georgia has to be one of the most-challenging pursuits…
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