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Several western cougars that were released in north Florida in February (1993) have been making forays into Georgia, and two of the big cats traveled as far north as I-16 in Bulloch County before they were rounded up by wildlife officials and trucked back to Florida. The cougars are part of a Florida Game and…
On Dec. 2, Ronnie Wilbanks, of Fairmont, decided to head to his Gordon County hunting club for an afternoon hunt. Little did he know that he was about to make history by taking the biggest buck ever to come from Gordon County. Ronnie was walking to his spot, a high hill that overlooks a grown-up…
A weekend deer hunt on the Oconee National Forest in Putnam County turned into a nightmare for Marty James, of Lilburn, when a killer tornado tore through the woods and trapped him under a massive oak tree for more than four hours. Marty James and two friends, Paul Taylor and his son Doug, both of…
Ask any turkey hunter, whether he’s a novice or a seasoned veteran, what his meaning of the perfect spring gobbler hunt is, and nine times out of 10 his tainted version will paint a picture sort of like this…. “Well, year before last I had seen this big ol’ bird in the field bottom fuzzed…
If there is an axiom about killing big bucks on hunt clubs, it is this: “Guests Kill Big Bucks.” Stan Steiner, who works for the DNR Fisheries Section and runs Moosehead Taxidermy in Americus, is the proof of that rule. On Dec. 21, Stan was invited to hunt on a 1,200-acre private farm in Lee…
Before deer season opened this year, Jeff Hill, of Tucker, had been hoping that he would be lucky enough to take a mountable buck this season. He succeeded in a way far beyond his dreams. His Nov. 23 hunt turned out to be his ultimate deer-hunting fantasy. The 1991-92 deer hunting season hadn’t started out…
Ben Rodgers Lee, the father of modern-day turkey hunting and calling, was killed in an automobile accident on Oct. 7, 2001 near his home in Jackson, Ala. Lee was 46. “Ben Lee was an ordinary man who enjoyed hunting and calling animals and did them both well, ” said Terry Rohm, longtime friend of Lee’s…
It was midnight at the hunting camp about six weeks ago. We’d been down on a dove hunt—deer scouting— stand hanging—work day weekend and it had been hot. The night temperature was comfortable, if clammy, and the soft breeze was just enough to keep the mosquitoes away. Light from a naked bulb 50 feet away…
If you’ve been staring at your big game tags trying to make sense of what’s printed on the tags and what’s written in the state regs about the season bag limit, what you see isn’t exactly what it appears to be. Those tags that are marked “Archery Only, Antlerless Deer Only,” aren’t. What happened is…
If you plant a dove field, the kids will come, or at least that’s what the Game and Fish Division is hoping. To encourage more participation by young hunters, the state is planning its first-ever parent/child dove hunt. The Game Management Section is sponsoring the parent/child dove shoots at Pine Log WMA on Saturdays and…
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