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Hunting
The season for hunting squirrels in Georgia opened with a heat index across the state reaching 100 degrees on Aug. 15. Hunting might seem crazy in this heat. But make no mistake, Georgia hunting will be wide open in a matter of just weeks. It really kicked off with opening day of dove season on…
I came through a very traditional path of progression when it comes to hunting, looking back on it I almost didn’t have a choice. My dad hunted, and therefore I hunted (and loved every minute of it). Sharing the woods with my family are some of my fondest memories from childhood, but being indoctrinated at…
John Callaway estimates he had more than 500 trail-camera pictures of a handsome 9-pointer he was hunting last season. Problem was, they were all at night. “He was coming in twice each night and working scrapes,” John said. Well, we obviously can’t hunt at night, so it creates a tough challenge to get a buck…
Georgia’s dove season kicks off on Saturday, Sept. 7 at 12 noon. It will run the entire month of September before taking a break until the Saturday before Thanksgiving. If you’re looking for a private dove field, a number of options are on these two pages. You’ll see a variety of dates, amenities and field…
After several Georgia deer seasons in a row that fell below our state’s lofty standards for producing top-end, high-scoring bucks, last year was the rebound season we had been expecting. There were four Booners, bucks that scored high enough to make Boone & Crockett’s all-time record book. That’s the second-best year in the past 20…
The big news concerning all WMA youth hunts for this season is that WRD lowered the maximum age at which a Georgia hunter is now considered a Youth and can participate in quota and non-quota youth hunting opportunities. The new maximum age for a Youth is now 16 years old; it used to be 17.…
Lee Ellis is a name most Georgia hunters recognize. He’s killed some of the best Georgia bucks ever while bowhunting Atlanta’s tiny woodlots and pockets of habitat surrounded by neighborhoods and busy streets. Some of these Atlanta bucks grow stupid huge. This year was the third time Lee won a week of GON’s Truck-Buck Contest…
As we crank out yet another GON WMA Special, I’m not entirely convinced that people read anymore. I think we live in a society of scrollers, those who exercise their index finger night after night on the couch looking for anything on a cell phone they believe is worth briefly stopping on. Now, for those…
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…
Fate often plays an important role in the outcome of notable happenings in our lives. So much so that when we look back, it sometimes appears as though some strange force has carefully laid out a pre-determined series of events. The end results seem almost predictable. Despite the mystery of it all, this turned out…
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