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Hunting
It is appropriate that May is a good month to turn your habitat-management thoughts to wild turkeys, since many of us still have turkeys in our hunting thoughts as well. May is the right time to put in a plot of chufa, a nut sedge that will feed wild turkeys during the tough months of…
Spring is here, and it’s an early one this year, so the wildlife on your land has been carried through the sparse months of winter on the food plots you offered. The browsers have made it to the season of plenty, and for birds, spring means the return of insects. Soon there will be fruits…
Chuck Bonner, of McDonough, knew something strange was going on last season when he and the hunters on his club in Crawford County saw three or four different deer that appeared to have their ears turned inside out. On Dec. 9, one of the deer, a button buck, was shot by a hunter. Chuck took…
Trevor McEntyre, of Plainville, is a bowhunter. As of February, 2003, he has taken 14 of the 27 big-game animals of North America with his bow, including grizzly bear, musk ox, both black and brown bear, bighorn sheep, antelope, Dall sheep — and an elk that scored 300 Pope & Young points. He has also traveled…
For the past 17 years Georgia has hosted the Celebrity Quail Hunt, Quail Unlimited’s (QU) signature event. The concept is simple enough; allow a group of hunters to bid on the opportunity to hunt on select quail-hunting properties with celebrities and corporate executives, and provide a series of highly entertaining evening events where they can…
For deer and turkeys, March can be the toughest survival month in the calendar. Acorns, seeds and soft mast are usually gone by this time of year, and of course the green growth of native forbs and grasses has yet to return and won’t until April in most parts of Georgia. Yet, this is a…
If I told you to plant something in the “brassica” family for your deer, chances are good you’d give me a blank stare. But you’ve actually heard a lot about brassica — it’s the family of plants that includes collards, mustards, turnips, rape, kale, and any of the “greens.” You’ve heard of Biologic? Pennington’s…
Turkeys are unpredictable, unreliable and undependable. Rarely can you count on what a gobbler will do, when he’ll do it or how he’ll do it. As a turkey hunter, you are allowed multiple chances and dozens of screw-ups before you actually get to take your safety off. However, as a turkey hunter you’ll learn to…
A very special thanks to those who attended the dual Friends of WMAs workday at River Bend and Beaverdam WMAs this past weekend. If you notice some cleaner roads and hunter-access trails this turkey season on either of these middle Georgia areas, there’s a good chance that a Friends volunteer cleared it for you. If…
One of the greatest ironies of the present struggle that quail are facing in Georgia and the Southeast, an irony pointed out a few months back by wildlife biologist Reggie Thackston in the pages of GON, is that at one time people created excellent quail habitat and flourishing populations entirely by accident. Today, even through…
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