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South Georgia turkey hunting is being featured on the Country Outdoors Turkey Tour, an Outdoor Channel series hosted by Mary O’Neill Phillips and her husband Zach Phillips. Episode three of the series released last week featured turkey hunts in Cook County with young country music singer Jordan Rowe. The Rowe family, from Adel, are GON members.…
God’s timing is perfect. It took 64-year-old Raymond Gibbs, of Cordele, 14 years of turkey hunting before he finally sealed the deal and killed his first gobbler. It all came down on Friday, March 27, 2020 when Raymond squeezed the trigger on a Dooly County longbeard. “Fourteen years of waiting and waiting. There were times…
Does COVID-19 have you cooped up at home staying socially distant from others? Take advantage of that down time by using QDMA’s online resources to learn more about the white-tailed deer, deer hunting and deer management. To make things a little easier during this difficult time, QDMA has decided to offer a temporary discount on…
Lauren McLendon, of Roopville, may call Heard County, Georgia home, but she certainly doesn’t mind crossing the state line into Chambers County, Alabama if that’s what it takes to go turkey hunting. She was in a ground blind with her dad Brandon on the morning of March 21 when she shot a five-bearded gobbler that…
The new No. 1 hunter-killed buck from White County is a big 10-pointer killed last season by Charles Allison, of Cleveland, that netted 156 even. While it’s the best buck ever killed by a hunter in White County, Charles ranks No. 2 on GON’s all-time White County Deer Records because our all-time records include pick-up…
Realtree’s Phillip Culpepper is used to making hunting dreams come true. He spent the 2020 Georgia youth turkey opener in Troup County taking kids hunting during the 30-30 Ministries’ Turkey Camp in conjunction with the Georgia Sheriffs’ Youth Home. Phillip and cameraman Drake Lamb led two young men to longbeards on camera, where they already…
The sandy road glowed in the darkness as longtime friend Jonathan Barber and I traced it toward the swamp’s edge. We finally reached the end and stood pacing, waiting for the first early morning gobble from the Savannah River swamp. We had hunted together here before and had tangled with some tough old birds. We…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the winter of despair…” …
A bedded newborn fawn lays concealed and motionless when a large coyote appears on the scene. Within moments, the fawn’s mother returns to the spot, the same location where she’s dropped her fawns multiple years in a row. The doe is on high alert. She runs off for several yards, suddenly stopping. The doe’s effort…
Whether it’s a perfect storm of factors, or a result mostly brought on by COVID-19, there’s no telling, but the fact is that WMA turkey hunter participation and public-land turkey harvest is noticeably up when compared to last year’s season opener. “Overall public-land harvest is up 43% compared to last year’s first six days,” said…
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