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Hunting
For three glorious days in August all the world was good again. For many of us, the past year-and-a-half has been a huge void—a blip on the map—a time like no other in American history. Continuous cancelations (including the 2020 Outdoor Blast), school closings, working from home, limited travel and in many cases, living like…
We all want to improve hunting opportunities on land we control. Many of us put in food plots, plant nut and fruit trees and manage native vegetation in an effort to increase wildlife populations. Much has been written about food plots, concentrating on wheat, oats, clovers and other annual and perennial crops. So, in this article…
Glen and Mark arrived at the refuge at noon on Aug. 24, and after finding a good shady camping spot, the pair began to set up their living quarters for the next week. “One of these days we really need to work out a sponsorship deal with the folks at Thermacell. These swamp skeeters will…
The 2020-21 season has tallied up 93 record-book bow bucks, the most ever recorded in a single season of Georgia hunting. There’s a chance that after GON’s Outdoor Blast scoring and a few late bucks that will trickle in this fall and winter that we could see triple digits in the number or record-class bow…
Included in these three pages is a record number of bowhunting stats from Georgia WMAs, PFAs, Tracts, State Parks and VPAs. It’s shocking the number of places someone can take bow or crossbow and get after a deer. Every September we publish last year’s WMA bowhunting stat’s simply as a service to our readers. The…
It was mid-November and the whitetails were running frantically all over the woods. It was the last morning of our week-long hunt, and I was anxious to get an arrow into a decent buck before we had to head home. I was set up in my climbing stand on a hardwood hillside, and by mid-morning…
In a late change, WRD will allow WMA dove fields to be open for shooting from one-half hour before sunrise until sunset. Prior to this decision, WMA dove fields were set to open 30 minutes before sunrise but close at 12 noon. “When surveyed, hunters have routinely asked for opening day of dove season to…
If you’ve been deer hunting for more than a few years, I’m sure that you have some experience chasing deer that are eating mast. Many hunters curse years with heavy acorn crops in particular, as deer that were feeding in food plots in September seemingly disappear as acorns begin to fall. October in particular is…
Holden Hines, 14, of Macon, collected a $3,000 shopping spree from Adventure Outdoors after winning GON’s Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out on Aug. 21 at GON’s Outdoor Blast. In addition, Holden won a dream deer and hog hunting trip with Woods-N-Water outfitters in Wilkinson County. Holden and a parent get to hunt and stay at a…
How does a special big-buck contest just for kids sound? How about we throw in a great grand prize package that includes a $3,000 shopping spree at Adventure Outdoors, along with an outdoor weekend for hunting deer and hogs and fishing at Woods-N-Water Outfitters. Thanks to our great sponsors, another youngster will win that grand…
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