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Hunting
By Josh Preston In my family, hunting, fishing and spending time outdoors is just a part of life. I have always loved the idea of deer hunting since I was a small child watching my grandpa and my uncle bring deer home to be skinned and processed. Some of my best memories are of my…
In this era when archers gather to brag about arrow speed, Chip Wells likes to talk about arrow lethality. All that old-school thinking for the Cairo native made it possible for him to take what could prove to be the biggest bow-taken buck ever from Grady County. Rough measurements show that the buck will likely…
This is the way squirrel hunting ought to be—fast paced, lots of shooting opportunities and loads of excitement. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with sitting under a big oak and waiting for the squirrels to come out, but I’m telling you that hunting squirrels with a good dog is a boat load…
There’s still some deer hunting left—quite a bit if your county has the extended archery-only hunting until Jan. 31. However, it’s time for our GON Hunt Advisors to wrap it up with their final deer season reports. We will hear from our Hunt Advisors again soon during turkey season. NORTH GEORGIA Cherokee County: Tim Dangar, of…
Hunter Duke, of St. Augustine, Fla., was on a mission this deer season. After capturing a trail-camera photo of a crazy-looking 6-point on his grandfather’s Decatur County hunting property, that one deer was all he was interested in shooting. “When I shot him was the first time someone had seen him in daylight. He came…
Worth County was recently in the news with a giant road-killed buck that grossed 174 inches and hurt the feelings of quite a few local hunters who had been hunting him. Another Worth County buck, this one scoring near 190, was recently killed, but thankfully this one was taken by a hunter. With a new…
In the fall of 1999 I had a bad case of the melancholy. My up-and-coming grouse dog had died and had left me feeling down in the dumps. Little Mac, our young Brittany spaniel, had died from what was evidently a brain tumor. Little Mac started having seizures in his second year which progressively became…
The annual one-day bear hunt on private lands in Houston, Twiggs, Bleckley and Bibb counties was held on Dec. 18, and this year six bears were brought to the Oaky Woods check station. New for 2021, Bleckley County was added to the list of bear hunting counties, so now bear hunting is allowed on the…
Back in my old way of life, putting others first when deer hunting on the same piece of land didn’t usually happen. Today, many years later, when I hear a story about a deer hunter taking the last available stand on an afternoon, and then dropping a buck that scores in the 160s, it confirms…
Ron Purvis, of Adel, killed his second big buck in recent years while hunting in Cook County in October. The first Cook County buck was killed back in 2016 and netted 146 typical inches. That first buck had 182 inches of bone and was creamed by deductions, but Ron’s latest buck is a clean 10-point,…
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