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Hunting
Early morning mist rose serenely from the swampy bottomland along the Oconee River as David Frost’s boots squished and padded softly through the dark, rich Wheeler County mud. He was going through the motions of his usual still-hunting methods, unaware that within seconds, a three-year crusade for the animal of a lifetime would begin… or…
In a precedent-setting move, the first Georgia parks property has been opened to deer hunters. The Beaver Dam Creek marina site at Lake Richard B. Russell has been opened to archery-only deer hunting. The 350-acre tract located off Hwy 72 is owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and leased to the Georgia Parks…
Antlers of whitetail deer are often referred to as horns. Although antlers and horns both arise from the frontal skull plate, they are vastly different in composition and growth. Horns, such as those of goats, buffalo and bighorn sheep, are composed of keratin, the same material in fingernails. Horns are permanent, never shed and…
The odds of shooting a Boone & Crockett buck in Georgia are astronomical at best. In the past two seasons more than 900,000 hunters and countless millions of man-hours spent deer hunting have resulted in just three B&C bucks. The latest B&C buck was killed in Meriwether County by a hunter from Grantville, Charles “Shotgun” Johnson.…
Gorman Riley is one of those rare deer hunters who decided that he wanted to kill a Boone and Crockett buck—and then went out and accomplished the feat. Gorman, born and raised in Harris County, killed his first buck when he was 10. At 15, he told his father that he was going to kill…
Fifty years ago, the land that is now Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge was essentially a desert. Cleared by settlers in the 1800s, the land had been transformed from forest into massive cotton farms. Crop after crop of cotton finally wore the land out, and by the 1870 about half the farms in the area had…
Recent hard times for waterfowl in Georgia may soon get a much-needed financial boost. Legislation before the Georgia General Assembly would require Georgia duck hunters to purchase a $5 Georgia duck stamp. The state stamp would be in addition to the $10 federal duck stamp that is already required. The bill making the state stamp mandatory…
For Wade Patterson, 16, of Omega, a community just south of Tifton, the morning of Nov. 21 will certainly go down as the best deer hunting morning of his life. That Monday morning, Wade, his father and his friend Jeff Hartsfield slipped into the woods to do a little hunting before school on this father’s…
Phillip Flanders, of Adrian, has taken what is easily one of the best bucks to come out of Laurens County in some time. He had seen this deer the day before, but he couldn’t get a shot. So the next morning, he had moved his stand down into the bottom where the deer were passing.…
If there is any truth to the line about 10 percent of the hunters killing 90 percent of the big bucks, then Wallace Reeves is one of those in the top 10 percent. Wallace, who owns Wallace Printing Co. in Tucker, kills bucks—big bucks—consistently. Overall, he has killed 30 bucks, 8-point or better, with a…
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