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Hunting
“Why did we have to get up so early, Uncle Eli,” the boy said, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. “We have to get ahead of the turkeys,” Uncle Eli said. “Turkeys have to get up very early in the morning and go to work, and we have to get ahead of them before they…
By Jason Dunn So there I was….. All good southern stories should start with the phrase “So there I was.” I began teaching my daughter that when she was in preschool. She never conformed to my teaching and much more preferred starting her stories with “It all started when I woke up,” yet those are…
By Tony Peters I’m writing this on Feb. 1, 2021, one of the saddest days that will come during this year. It’s the day after duck season has ended and the first day of the long 305-day countdown until a new season begins. When I went outside this morning at daylight to retrieve a few…
Preparing for opening day of rifle season in my household is very serious business. I spend practically all of the off season putting together the best equipment for the hunting ahead. A lightweight and comfortable Summit climber, Mossy Oak from head to toe, a fresh bottle of Tink’s 69—and of course my Air Venturi carbon…
In an effort to help hunters with their predator problems, GON will release its first-ever “Trappers For Hire” list in the May issue to go along with its annual Coyote Cull contest. GON is specifically looking for trappers who would like to be hired by landowners and hunting clubs. This idea is the brainchild of…
We’re starting to wonder how much better Georgia deer hunting can get. For the 2020-21 season, 356 of our 1447 respondents, or 24.6%, rated their seasons as excellent, the best excellent rating in at least 20 years. Only 10.1% said they had “poor” seasons. That’s the lowest percentage of folks with a poor rating in…
I started deer hunting when my family moved to Macon in 1970. The man who owned the company my father worked for leased 750 acres in Jones County. He allowed a club there, which was mostly employees, their families and a few customers. Jones County is just outside of Macon and close to the middle…
Your last chance to apply for WMA general and youth turkey hunts is Feb. 15. The charts below show a long list of WMAs that offered turkey hunting during the spring of 2020, along with each WMA’s gobbler harvest and hunter numbers. WMAs can differ greatly in the turkey hunting opportunities offered. Some WMAs offer…
It is just after sunup Jan. 14, 2021. I find myself sitting at the dining room table, computer screen aglow in front, fireplace aglow on my left, (but with considerably more warmth to it), and three mounted bucks a-glowering down at me from the den wall to my right. Or maybe they’re gloating instead of…
Jesse Payne, a 33-year U.S. Forest Service employee and veteran deer hunter, couldn’t believe what had just happened. Jesse had climbed almost to the top of Slaughter Mountain and had just shot at and missed the biggest buck he had ever seen. Jesse was slowly making his way to the top of the mountain when…
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