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Hunting
Gator season closed after the first week of October and ended with 408 gators being harvested. That’s the second-best year recorded since WRD started hosting a Georgia alligator season in 2003. The season with the most gators ever taken was in 2023, when 471 Georgia alligators were killed. The biggest recorded gator from the 2024…
When I think about it, I realize the importance of cage traps. Back in the days of our mountain men, the steel leg-hold trap was the trap to own. They didn’t have the selection of traps that we have today. Trap designs and styles have upgraded, and in today’s market, we have a very large…
At least the Global Positioning System—so now you know what GPS stands for—kens where they are. Even from a couple hundred or so miles skyward, it keeps up, spot-on, with the race. While we, somewhere or other in the vastnesses of the Okefenokee Swamp in Clinch County, can only go from experience in attempting to…
While we continue to pray and work to help our friends, families and all affected by Hurricane Helene… from Valdosta to Hazlehurst, Dublin, Sylvania, Augusta… throw in a little prayer for rain. Most of Georgia hasn’t seen a drop since that awful night of Sept. 27 when the storm roared through. Rain will come, and…
When Mack Saxon began accumulating trail-camera photos of a great Oconee County archery buck, he did not waste any time preparing for the 2024 archery deer season. Mack and his wife recently moved to family land on the southwest end of the county that was part of an old hunting club several decades ago. Mack’s…
A 16-year-old hunter killed one of the biggest bears ever taken Georgia—the second heaviest ever from north Georgia and the fifth heaviest overall. On Oct. 22, Grayson Collins, of Blairsville, managed to take down the bear of a lifetime. The behemoth weighed 620 pounds on certified scales. Grayson was hunting a few miles from Ball…
Stacy Black is by no means your average Georgia hunter. The retired schoolteacher is 54 and hunts her Tift County farm by herself. She plants dozens of food plots by herself. She hangs cameras all over the property by herself. She helps manages her pecan orchard. And, oh yeah, she has just taken a buck…
Kevin Prescott killed a Gwinnett County buck on Oct. 11 that green scored 168 inches. The entire story for the 13-pointer can been viewed on the Unruly Outdoors YouTube channel. Kevin had a close call with the buck in 2023, but not sealing the deal last year actually turned into a blessing since the antlers…
By Pete Cox On Oct. 13, 2024, at approximately 7:15 a.m., we both sat in an old cypress box blind. This is the beginning of year two of sitting in this Ware County box blind. We have had our eye on Splinter since the beginning of last year. Ashton had a chance last year to…
After four weeks of archery deer hunting, Georgia’s 2024-2025 deer season makes a transition on Saturday morning, Oct. 12, as primitive-weapons hunting opens statewide. Also, kids 15 and younger can hunt with rifles as the Youth Week opens in conjunction with the primitive-weapons season. The general firearms deer season for all hunters opens next Saturday,…
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