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Hunting
There’s no accounting for the bug that bites you. Or when it happens. For some, it’s a process of growing into whatever activity they eventually fall for and become consumed. Others are suddenly smitten. Like Don Butts. His parents didn’t see it coming during a vacation trip to the Great Smoky Mountains all those…
Deer hunting in the rain can be a lot of fun, if you do it right. Precipitation from either rain, sleet or snow in the right amounts can get deer moving and help you have a great hunt. I have had some of my best hunts on the worst weather days. While some people are inside…
Dayton Cannon, of Cochran, has had an exceptional year in 2023, killing two record-class bucks with a bow, a 140-inch typical and a 195-inch non-typical. Both bucks were killed in Bleckley County. On Oct. 12, he was in a stand in a hardwood bottom when a huge 9-pointer came easing down the trail at 5:30…
The years haven’t been kind to rabbit hunters in Georgia. In the 1960s, there were 117,000 of them and they could knock on most any farmhouse and get permission to hunt with a deal of sharing their harvest. They were good at what they did, too. They harvested about 1.7 million rabbits each season. Then,…
There are dedicated bowhunters who hunt exclusively with a bow, even during gun season. It’s mostly because they like the greater challenge of hunting with a primitive weapon. That greater challenge naturally results in a higher level of satisfaction once they close the deal. After all, anyone can sit in a tree stand or blind,…
It would be a stretch to call 20-year-old Marley Sudduth a deer-hunting veteran. Let’s just say she has a knack for shooting weird deer. “I’ve taken three bucks in my lifetime, and a few does, and one of those bucks was a piebald,” the Cordele resident said. “I was tickled to death to get that…
You don’t see many bucks with the combination of white piebald markings, age and rack size like the one killed opening morning of firearms season in Turner County by Jonathan Duke, of Buchanan. “There is a lot of history with this buck,” Jonathan said. “I’ve had him on camera for two years, and we had…
Georgia hunter Trey Claus accomplished something on opening morning of firearms season that few deer hunters ever will—and it’s not taking a Boone and Crockett buck. While nearly as rare, Trey harvested a whitetail doe with canine teeth in its upper jaw, a rare occurrence dating back to when the whitetail’s ancestor possessed large canines…
By Dovie Hart On Oct. 19, my 13-year-old God daughter Lydia Allegood, of Moultrie, and I went to Bullard Creek WMA located in Jeff Davis County just off the Altamaha River after being encouraged by my husband Ed hart to take advantage of possibly getting a buck. The WMA was hosting an Oct. 19-21 Bonus…
Eli Martin is just 21 years old and in his first season of bowhunting deer. The Oglethorpe County resident never imagined that the first deer he would take would be so weird, or that it would be talked about by so many deer hunters in Georgia. “My grandfather recently passed away, and I decided I…
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