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Hunting
In my travels of north Georgia a couple years ago, I ran into an older gentleman at a wild-game processing plant. His name is Bob Watkins, and when I asked him who loaded up the big buck he had killed a few hours earlier, he looked up and motioned for me to follow him. We…
Daylight, 35 degrees and a big sow was well within rifle range. It was an exciting start to the Cumberland Island youth deer and hog hunt on Dec. 19, 2020. It had probably been a decade or better since I’d spent a few days on a Georgia barrier island looking for deer and hogs. In…
Location, location, location… Emmitt hung up the phone and turned to Jan, “Ed says we need to get up to Sandy Cross to see that property this weekend.” “Is that the one with the pond near the Interstate?” Emmitt confirms it is that parcel. “That will be the perfect location for us. Ed worked it…
I would like to share some words of encouragement with Zach Getskow after his recent fall from a tree stand. I live in Dacula, Ga., but I had a very similar experience seven years ago in Montgomery County, Missouri on Nov. 18, 2013. I fell 17 1/2 feet when the nylon straps suddenly snapped on…
“An old trapper gave a buddy of mine six traps and told him to go play with them,” Josh Hall recalls with a grin. “That’s what we did, and that’s really how I got started in trapping. But it didn’t take long to find out that it wasn’t playtime, and that there was a whole…
When Cam Newmans, of Willacoochee, squeezed the trigger on a big Atkinson County 10-pointer while dog hunting on Dec. 27, 2020, it was a moment he will never forget. “We hunt a small lease by dog hunting standards, it’s only about 5,000 acres. There’s 10 of us buddies on it, and we call it The…
Coon hunting is at the very essence of our hunting heritage. Man and dog go out into the night, and not just for the kill, but for the chase itself. From the hills around Macon, up through the hollers of the mountains and down in the cypress swamps of the southern portion of our state,…
Dr. Michael Chamberlain, Ph.D Terrell Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources University of Georgia With deer season winding down, turkey hunters are eyeing spring and what many of us consider the best time of the year—spring wild turkey season! A question I am often asked is why…
VOTES, which stands for Voice Of The Educated Sportsman, is a GON survey that has been around for more than two decades. A question on the survey each and every year is Rate Your Deer Season, which gives us county-specific ratings that can be compared to historical trends. We simply want to know how your…
The minutes ticked on: forty-four, forty-five, forty-six. I was running out of patience, time and getting really antsy. Dad told me to sit still; it was just getting prime time for the deer to start moving and coming out to eat. The anticipation was killing me. I had seen the big buck on the trail…
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