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Hunting
The sounds of rifles and muzzleloaders will echo through the Georgia deer woods beginning at daylight this Saturday morning, Oct. 12. The Georgia primitive-weapons deer season opens Oct. 12, and Oct. 12-18 is also the special week for youth deer hunters when kids 15 and younger can hunt deer with modern firearms. The exception is…
Heard County was once known throughout Georgia as a haven for deer hunting. After consistently producing some of the most impressive bucks in the state from the late 1980s through the 1990s, the county garnered a reputation as a top destination for both quality and quantity of deer. As a child in the late 1990s,…
It’s no secret that the rut is the best time to have an encounter with that old buck you have had your eyes on all summer. It’s seemingly the only time of year he really lets his guard down by chasing does all over creation in an attempt to spread his genes. To figure out…
Georgia hunters who got to the woods for opening morning of bow season were greeted with an unseasonable cool morning. Well, that was just a tease. Since then it’s been brutally hot and dry. Food plot seed that went in the ground is feeding the crows unless you were lucky to get pop-up thunderstorms, one…
Gator season won’t officially close until Oct. 7, but this season already has been highlighted by what is certainly going to be a new state record. A 14-foot, 1.75-inch gator was killed on Lake Eufaula by tag holder Derrick Snelson, who hired Lethal Guide Service. That gator is pictured just below, and a full feature…
The Top-4 Georgia counties for big bucks remained the same as last season. Worth County is still No. 1 based on the big bucks it has produced in the past 10 years, followed by Lee, Dougherty and Macon counties. There was some movement for the next grouping. Pulaski County came in at No. 5 in…
Thomas Pulliam, of Sandersville, has the new No. 1 bow buck ever taken from Washington County. His 10-pointer was arrowed Dec. 8, 2018 and netted 148 1/8 inches. We’re not sure exactly how it happened, but Thomas’ new county record was left out of GON’s Bow-Buck County Rankings and Georgia’s Best Bow Bucks lists…
Public-land hunting seems to have made a resurgence in the last couple of years. Whether that’s due to the onslaught of social media or the increased lack of private land or all of the above, it’s unclear. What is clear is that based on state agency numbers, hunting license sales are decreasing. That’s not good.…
In the more than a decade since I have been a part of the annual BBQ and dove shoot fundraiser event hosted by Mr. Claibourne Darden, of Sharon, I have seen a range of field and shooting variables that dove shooters would find completely reasonable and acceptable. Most years are good, some years are fair.…
Long ago they had named the club ‘Coon Dog Cemetery’ to honor the legendary dogs, hounds with names like Run-Around Sue, Ol’ Rip, Kentucky Mike and Wrong-Way Pete. Dogs that had found their final resting place in a small, sacred plot of ground at one end of the property. Over the years, as the deer…
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