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Hunting
If you look at the GON rut map, you’ll quickly notice that WMA hunters in the Peach State enjoy a benefit not available to hunters in many other states. Dedicated WMA hunters can do their homework and pick and choose WMAs where they can hunt the rut pretty much all season long. While the rut…
Joe Hester says it’s all about hearing the dogs singing and enjoying God’s great outdoors. Joe and his son Haddon or a few close friends will often turn his large pack of tracking dogs loose on the foxes and bobcats on WMAs of middle Georgia just to see the dogs run for hours. They are…
The two biggest bucks that I’ve taken in the state of Georgia were killed in the month of December. After more than 40 years of deer hunting in Georgia, these two bucks stand out as not only my personal best, but the fact they were not taken during the November rut but during the chill…
“You call me Harley,” Harley Anderson told Cougar. “Looks like you’re doin’ a fine job on rebuildin’ this blind for your aunt. She’ll be pleased. When you’re finished here, I ’spose she’ll put you to work lookin’ for her lost gold.” “You know about that, too?” “Everybody down here knows about Victoria’s gold, young man.”…
If only you could open that box of traps from the UPS man and have them ready to deploy for duty in the dirt. In a phrase coined by a wise man many years ago, “it just don’t work that way.” To be successful in trapping coyotes, foxes and bobcats using foot-hold traps, there are…
The peak of the rut may be over in many parts of Georgia, but your chances at a mature buck and meat for the freezer are far from done. Our Hunt Advisor team has reports on how the action has been so far this season, and how they will hunt in December. NORTH GEORGIA Chattahoochee National…
By Cliff Odum We first got this buck on camera three years ago when he was a very nice 9-pointer. He had a clean rack with a non-matching G4 on his left side. I had harvested a 10-point opening weekend of the 2023 season and had committed to my brother and father that I would…
Chase Collins spent a little time deer hunting in California where he lived, but California isn’t exactly the deer hunting capital of the world. Chase knew where he needed to be. In October, he moved to Eastman in Dodge County to be closer to family. The fact that family members owned a farm in Pulaski…
Christy Nash, of Gay, is one of those blessed hunters able to hunt a piece of property that hasn’t been hunted in more than two decades. It’s a 275-acre piece of Lamar County dirt that’s been in her daddy’s family for more than 100 years. Her daddy is 88 years old, and he now gets…
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