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Hunting
Bruce Berryhill, of Cochran, swears up and down he did not take his second bird—a snowy white tom—from a farmer’s pen. Bruce did not hear any gobbling on the morning of April 15, so he set up on a food plot. “I caught some movement in the end of the food plot, and it turned…
Jerry Melton, of Americus, had been trying to get his friend and business associate Sergio Chavez, of Phenix City, Ala., to go hunting with him all season long. The two friends were finally able to get together on a Wednesday in early December last season. The result of the hunt was one of the most…
A 3,000-acre tract in Murray County, almost in the shadows of the rugged Cohutta Wilderness, intensively managed for deer for the past seven years. Lush food plots, supplemental feed, minerals, and selective harvest should have caused what has traditionally been a low deer population to literally explode. Seven years on 3,000 acres, where not a…
Editor’s Note: the following is a letter to GON from Danny Sweat of Albany, recounting what Danny said was “one of the most unbelievable experiences I’ve ever had in my 59 years.” My father-in-law, Dr. Bill Brown, who was a dentist in Blackshear, Georgia, was well known as one of the most avid and experienced…
I saw the white capped head appear over the crest of the hill at a distance of about 50 yards. It resembled a submarine periscope as it scanned its environment. I gave a few soft, subtle hen yelps mixed in with a couple of seductive purrs, and almost instantly the old gobbler that had earned…
Charles Futral had witnessed a lot of interesting turkey behavior on his farm in Fayette County in recent years, but what he saw one afternoon last fall takes the prize: two mature gobblers that had been fighting had apparently had become locked bill-in-bill. “I thought their mouths were hung together, because they wouldn’t turn loose,…
Next fall, deer hunters in Troup County will to have to count to four before they pull the trigger on a buck. With DNR Board approval, countywide quality-deer-management regulations will begin with the opening of archery season. In late January, results of the hunter survey in Troup County were completed. A total of 431 survey…
Turkey hunting can be so easy. An hour into opening-day morning of the 1999 Georgia turkey season and Michael Mayfield was sitting with his back to a pine tree watching over his gun barrel as a longbeard strutted steadily toward him – and the bird was already in range. The tables, however, were about to…
There’s a good chance that by next season, the number of antlerless deer you can shoot in one season will increase by three. If this news catches you by surprise, you are not alone. We’d like to fill you in on the details and then find out, through our VOTES survey, what you think of…
After months of meetings, hearings and work, the subcommittees revising the Ossabaw Island Comprehensive Management Plan (CMP) have produced a draft of the new CMP, and two changes in particular will have an impact on hunters: both turkey hunting and small-game hunting, including the waterfowl hunts, have been removed. “The deer and the hog hunting…
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