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Hunting
Week 5: Reid Diers, 139 3/8 typical County: Colquitt Date: Oct. 15 The fifth week of last deer season was the primitive-weapons week, which is now also the Youth week, where kids 15 and younger can use a modern rifle. The winner of this week was Reid Diers, of Norman Park, who earned a new…
Week 4: Kayla Pitts, 167 1/8 non-typical County: Houston Date: Oct. 11 GON has been around quite a while, long enough there’s lots of history in these pages. Take Kayla Pitts for example. She’s now 30, but many GON people still remember the August 2009 Truck-Buck Shoot-Out when a 19-year-old Kayla all but won a…
There are no cut and dry answers on how to catch coyotes every day of the year. There are some logical ways to think your way through it and be successful, but the same trick used to catch a coyote today may not work on the same day next year. Day after day, month after…
Week 3: Darrell Hudson, 147 0/8 typical County: Upson Date: Oct. 4 To know there’s a huge buck on your property, but you don’t hunt him for weeks because the wind is wrong— that takes resolve and patience many hunters just don’t possess. Darrell Hudson faced it last season. “I’ve been a longtime GON guy,”…
Week 2: Kevin Carnes, 140 7/8 typical County: Cobb Date: Sept. 22 Kevin Carnes, of Atlanta, already had some awesome suburban bucks to his credit before the 2019-2020 season, including a 2015 buck that netted 195 2/8 non-typical. That’s one of only eight Georgia bow-bucks to ever score high enough to qualify for the all-time…
A few weeks ago we released a story at gon.com about an 8-year-old girl from Washington County who is in the middle of a fight with cancer. In the midst of that storm, she recently found time to show her 28-year-old brother how things are done when she rolled three turkeys with one shot. “I…
Week 1: Ann Lester, 145 2/8 typical County: Macon Date: Sept. 14 Ann Lester, a 24-year-old from Macon County near the small town of Ideal, was bowhunting on opening morning of bow season last Sept. 14. “I got up the stand and was setting up. About 10 minutes after climbing up, I saw him walk…
Fawns are showing up everywhere, turkey poults are hatching, and Round 2 of the 2020 GON Coyote Cull is off and rolling as hunters and trappers continue to get after song dogs. Listed below are all the entries of those who found success and taken a photo with their June 2020 issue of GON. We’ll…
Beginning June 1, hunters can apply electronically for quota hunts including adult/child, deer, alligator, waterfowl, dove and many others, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division. “Are you hoping to get to hunt the area of your choice? If so, be sure to take note of quota hunt deadlines and get…
Realtree’s Phillip Culpepper reminds GON fans there is still time to post their turkey hunting pictures on social media to qualify for a chance to win a dream turkey hunting trip with Phillip and Sam Klement, of Colosseum Outdoors, during the spring of 2021. The idea behind this spring’s promotion was to let our readers…
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