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Hunting
Here is a quick reference to the 2022-2023 Georgia hunting season dates. Georgia’s archery season for deer opens Sept. 10, and the statewide gun season opens Oct. 22. If that firearms opener seems late, it is. But it is just a quirk of the calendar. “Deer season is set to open on a Saturday each…
The purpose and goal of GON’s Coyote Cull effort is to bring awareness to the impacts of coyotes on fawn and turkey poult survival rates, which have plummeted since non-native, invasive coyotes became established across Georgia. No hindsight ip unit displayed. We always say this isn’t about the number of coyotes entered, but this season…
Georgia DNR started offering lottery deer hunts on a handful of State Parks in 2014, and they remain among the most attractive hunts in the state’s public hunting system. It will take you at least three years of applying and being rejected to have a chance of being drawn, and as many as five or…
GON will publish our annual Pay Dove Shoots list in the August issue. If you are hosting a shoot, fill out the Dove Shoot Coupon for a free listing. For County, just tell us which county your field(s) is in. Under Shoot Date(s), include all the pay shoots you plan to host. We understand not…
Seventeen weekly winners and four hunters in our wildcard spots will soon shoot it out at the Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast on July 31. The second-best shot will win a Firminator G-3. And then, the last man, woman or child standing—there are three kids in the Shoot-Out this year—that last person on the Shoot-Out stage will…
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…
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