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Hunting
Last month GON published a photo of a buck killed in 1968 in Butts County by Bobby Schell. The deer had never been officially scored, and we had no clue where the buck ended up. Well, thanks to a strong and committed GON family, we got some answers. A phone call came in from Clifford…
Packing into the Cohutta Wilderness to hunt deer is not for the faint of heart. Even today, with all the high-tech gadgets we hunters like to tote into the woods, backpacking into a vast, rugged wilderness area to hunt remote mountain bucks is a serious challenge. Forty years ago it was much more than a…
There are deer hunters who spend small fortunes in hopes of taking a big buck. They lease thousands of acres of land, plant high-protein foods to grow big racks, install cameras to pattern deer and put out feeders to attract deer. During every waking moment they fret over what else they might do to get…
The search is on a for a particular deer in Forsyth County. You are probably wondering how it could be possible to pinpoint an exact deer in a county with so many deer. There is no mistaking this one. WRD State Deer Biologist Charlie Killmaster believes the deer is suffering from osteochondroma, a tumor that…
Editor’s Note: This article originally was published in the July 2012 issue of GON, and it was written by the late Glen Solomon. Scanning chocolate waters of the beaver pond, I saw Burtis Taylor whip the old weathered Ruger 10/22 to his shoulder. Looking in the direction he was aiming, I noticed a trail of…
Written By 7-year-old Audrey Cole I was going hunting and camping at the same time, and I was so excited because I knew I was going to kill a big turkey. So we started unpacking, and it was really chilly, so I just sat in the truck. After that, we went to a Mexican restaurant,…
Brady Vaughn isn’t your typical big-buck slayer. He doesn’t get to deer hunt that often. The small farm where he hunts isn’t intensively managed for big deer. He describes where he hunts as a pasture at the top end of a swamp near some chicken houses. In fact, it had become so overgrown in recent…
Gathering around the campfire at Camp Isilwane (lion) in Matetsi, Zimbabwe we look out at the vlei, which is a prehistoric river bed. The buffalo come into the dying waterhole for that last drink as the day succumbs to darkness. It is the end of the dry season, the last of the water before the…
Donnie Findley recently sent GON a picture we’ve never seen before: a gobbler with side-by-side double beards. Although multi-bearded turkeys are fairly common, the beards have always run down the breast, not across. “I got the turkey April 22 in Wilkes County,” said Donnie. “I think the beards are rather unique, they are both 11…
Round 2 of the 2022 GON Coyote Cull has started as hunters and trappers continue stepping up to the plate to kill song dogs in an effort to save fawns and turkey poults. Listed below are all the entries of those who have found success and taken a photo with their June 2022 issue of GON.…
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