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On March 11-12, the North Georgia Houndsmen’s club hosted the sanctioned United Kennel Club Peach Classic Hunt and Show for 2022. It was held at the Madison County Fairgrounds in Comer. The event drew an excellent turnout with 94 dogs being hunted and 50 competing in the bench show. There were entries from 10 different…
By Deborah Wallace Walking through the golden corn fields of Gregory, South Dakota, I suddenly hear the cackle of a pheasant and the proverbial shout from our guide, Joe, of “Rooster!” I raise my 20 gauge up at the ring-necked pheasant and shoot it to the ground. The dog runs to retrieve this magnificent, colorful…
The old saying is that the best time to go deer hunting is when you can go. North Goodwin, a 17-year-old from Augusta, is one of those who believes that old sayings get to be old sayings because they are true. When North wanted to go bowhunting back on Oct. 15 of last year, his…
My son, Devereaux, and I made our way along the old, worn trail in the morning darkness toward our listening spot. I knew where two birds likely were, and I also knew we would be nowhere near them to start the morning. I had hoped there might be other birds closer to where we would…
You probably learned about the ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates, in high-school history class. It’s safe to say that your teacher never mentioned his name in the same breath as Georgia turkey hunting. Nevertheless, the old doc coined a phrase that surely fits as the 2022 Georgia turkey season is set to begin. Almost 2,400 years…
The gray-haired man wearing a brown fedora hat with a turkey breast feather in the hatband flipped a purple plastic worm across the small pond. It landed with a light plop about 2 feet shy of a log and some grassy weeds near the far bank. “So Mr. Julian Duffey, you wanna be a turkey…
My dad put me up to it. Rather, he pretty much demanded that I do it. He had a somewhat twisted sense of humor about certain things, and he seemed to take special delight in putting me in a difficult spot just to see how I would respond. I dialed the number with elevated pulse…
By Jordan Conant When I moved to Georgia to attend college back in 2009, I hardly knew anything about deer hunting. Growing up in Maine, I was an avid fisherman, and although my dad and I had spent several fall days away from the football field in pursuit of deer, we weren’t exactly accomplished hunters.…
Some counties or parts of counties in extreme southwest Georgia could see a change to the start and end to their deer seasons by the 2023 season. Research and input from hunters have shown a significant number of does in those areas having a later conception date than does in other parts of the state.…
The declining turkey population in the southeastern United States made front page news after almost 20 years of data collection and scientific research backing the claim. If you spend any time at all looking into possible causes, you’ll find a hundred different theories. The most common to blame being predation, habitat loss, increased use of…
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