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Hunting

Night Hunters Pick Poor Place To Poach: Deputy’s Front Yard

December 13 was a bad luck day for three Taylor County poachers who picked one of the worst places in Talbot County to go night hunting—a deputy sheriff’s front yard. According to Department of Natural Resources records, three three men in a pickup left Butler in Taylor County and drove across Highway 208 into Talbot…

Colquitt County Giant Should Make Book!

Georgia hunters killed more than 160,000 antlered bucks last season, but not one of those deer has emerged as a Boone & Crockett class buck. This year, many reports say the harvest is down from last year, but already there’s been a record number of Pope & Young bucks killed and now the second buck…

Wilkinson County Non-Typical Booner

Georgia’s first Boone & Crockett class buck in two years has fallen in Wilkinson County. On the morning of Nov. 19, 1990, Dwaine Davis, of Macon, killed a monster non-typical buck barely 10 minutes after he climbed into his stand. Dwaine’s family owns several tracts of land in Wilkinson County, one of which consists of…

Troup County Monster Buck Shot By Lady Hunter

A Pine Mountain woman has killed what appears to be the biggest buck taken in Georgia thus far this season. Delaine Flowers is a member of a serious deer hunting family. Her husband, son and daughter all love to chase white-tailed deer. Delaine was hunting with her 15-year-old daughter on the evening of Oct. 9…

Dougherty County’s First Pope & Young

The number of Pope & Young qualified bucks taken in Georgia this year continues to climb! The buck pictured below, killed on the Marine Corps Logistics Base near Albany by 28-year-old Michael Layfield, is the eighth buck we’ve seen that should easily qualify. In addition, there are at least four more bucks on the bubble—an…

Man Bikes From Snellville To Redlands WMA, Kills First Buck

Rob Barnard, of Snellville, was successful at bagging his first deer on Saturday, Oct. 20, 1990. Rob didn’t have a car Friday, but he wanted to go hunting real bad—bad enough that he decided to ride his bike from Snellville to Redlands WMA! Rob started peddling at 3:30 p.m. Friday and got all the way…

Georgia’s Trapping Tradition: A Look At Georgia Trapping In 1990

Many a country boy has yearned to make a living off the land hunting, fishing or trapping. Some dream about it, while others seize the opportunity and head to the woods. One group that actively pursues an outdoor livelihood is the Georgia Trappers Association (GTA), a tightly organized group of approximately 400 sportsmen scattered throughout…

Troup Trophy Takes 1990 Truck-Buck Week 2

Harvesting a deer with a bow is not an easy task. The limiting factors that archers face range from, first, just practicing enough to be proficient with a stick and string, to having to wait for that close-in, clear shot. It’s just a different ball game than hunting with a high-powered rifle. But for all…

The Gunbelt Buck

So you think you have your buck patterned for the year already? You know the area he is using because you scouted in post-season 1989 and pre-season 1990 and saw his fresh sign on both occasions! You could still be hunting a ghost—a trophy animal now 4 or 5 miles from his fresh sign. When…

New River’s Coweta County Monster Buck

This story is nine years old, but it’s never been told. It is about a star-crossed rack that could have been a contender. If we could nudge two tines a half inch or so, we’d be talking about a new Georgia state-record buck. The buck is a monster 12-pointer with an inside spread greater than…

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