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Hunting
These days, the discovery of a fine old trophy whitetail in Georgia from yesteryear is about as rare as finding an honest politician. But it does still happen, and it’s always exciting to see what history has yet to uncover. When I got a phone call from Warren Wright telling me he had an old…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, J. Strom Thurmond Project, Forest, Fish, and Wildlife section have set the dates for primitive weapons deer hunts in Bussey Point Corps Management Unit, located in Lincoln County. The first 100 hunters to arrive each day will be registered on a first-come, first-served basis. Archery hunters are invited…
The 2023 Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out was held July 28 during the Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast. We watched another young hunter, Cody Gay, compete and win a BB gun shooting contest to earn a $3,000 shopping spree at Adventure Outdoors and a weekend hunt at Woods-N-Water Outfitters. Thanks to our great sponsors, another youngster will win…
A 5 1/2-year-old Harris County buck netting 157 4/8 inches is Georgia’s No. 2 typical bow buck taken last season. The hunter, Tyler Jordan with Realtree, had been watching the main-frame 12-pointer for three years before finally taking him with his Hoyt RX-7 bow on Oct. 18. “I love traveling the country and hunting…
We’ll get right to the pink elephant in this years’s GON’s WMA Bow Special. I can’t say for certain because I wasn’t a yellow fly in the Spanish moss, but it’s highly unlikely that five bowhunters took 23 deer over the course of archery season on Sapelo Island WMA last year, giving it what’s currently…
The 2022-23 season has tallied up 99 record-book bow bucks, the second-most ever recorded in a single season of Georgia hunting. There’s a chance that as a few late bucks trickle in this fall and winter we could exceed the 2020-21 record season of 111 record-class bow bucks. The state map to the right represents…
Deep in the swamps of southeast Georgia lies Dixon Memorial WMA. One of the states largest WMAs at 36,100 acres, the property boasts a range of diverse habitat that includes swamp bottoms, wetlands, palmettos, pines and thickets. The Georgia Forestry commission owns the property, and timber production is its primary purpose. However, the DNR has…
“You sure Jimbo never said anything to you about the farm?” Uncle Wiley asked. “Yes sir. He never talks about the farm, but Cooter and I have always known there was something there, something maybe he wasn’t telling us about. Just like he never talks about what happened in Iraq.” “Well, Iraq is a sore…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, has two youth dove hunts scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 16 and 23 at the Richard B. Russell Project Office. For both hunts, a parent or guardian must accompany youth participants, ages 9-16, and will be permitted to hunt along with the youth hunter. Hunters will be selected…
Sometime in the mid-90s, I read a magazine article about the Cohutta Wilderness in north Georgia. Having lived in Georgia for several years, I was shocked that I was not aware of such a place—37,000 acres of mountain wilderness where no wheeled vehicles or carts are allowed within its boundaries. I was intrigued by this…
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