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Hunting
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…
In the March, 1991 issue of GON, we reported that the state Game Management Section was expected to recommend a 60-day dove season this fall with a 15 dove per day bag limit. You can forget that idea. The public has spoken and what it has said is that a dozen doves a day is…
The 1990 Georgia deer hunting season will go into the books as the state’s best ever for big buck production. So far we know of at least six Boone & Crockett bucks, and they keep turning up, especially from south Georgia. Huey’s Taxidermy in Cordele ended its big-buck contest Feb. 9, and three B&C bucks…
Georgia’s bag limit for firearms deer season is about to increase by 60% for the 1991 season. In their continued effort to reduce the state’s deer population from the current level of approximately 1.25 million deer down to 1 million deer, the Game Management Section is proposing to increase the firearms bag limit from three…
It’s still the golden age for Georgia turkey hunters. For the seventh straight year, Georgia turkey hunters are expected to set a new harvest record, topping last year’s record of 40,000 gobblers. The expansion of the turkey flock and turkey hunting in Georgia is nothing short of phenomenal. In 1973, just 18 years ago, the…
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…
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…
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…
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