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Win A Gobbler Dream Hunt With Realtree!

How would you like to win a dream turkey hunt with two of the best turkey hunters in the business on some of the best turkey-hunting property in the Southeast?  Someone is going to win the hunt and chase turkeys with Phillip Culpepper, the host of Realtree’s Spring Thunder TV, and  Sam Klement, who is…

2020 Turkey Special: No Rebound For Turkeys

I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who loves turkey hunting. Today, he doesn’t hunt turkeys at all. When I asked him why he no longer hunted turkeys, he said, “I spend more time hunting for turkeys to hunt than I do hunting turkeys.”  I get it.  He told me how difficult…

The Nose Knows: An Overlooked Hunter’s Sense

I was born in Michigan in 1953 and moved to Georgia in 1969, which is where I now live. It was at a very early age that I learned what game smelled like. Whenever my dad would come home from a hunting trip, I would go out and handle the animal, getting its smell on…

Grant Aimed To Support Georgia Cotton Farmers And Bobwhite Quail

With generous funding support from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) Conservation Partners Program and Cotton Incorporated, Quail Forever and agricultural industry allies are excited to unveil a new precision agriculture planning partnership available now to producers in the southern United States with emphasis in Georgia. This new program—Precision Partnership for Working Lands—integrates agricultural…

WMA Turkey Special 2020

Your last chance to apply for a quota turkey hunt on a Georgia WMA is Feb. 15. Before you make your quota-hunt choice and maybe burn some priority points, you should check out the latest harvest and hunting pressure data on these WMAs. The charts included below in this article show a long list of…

Best “Excellent” Deer Season Rating In VOTES Response Since 1997

Of the 1,232 Rate Your Season ballots sent to GON, 24.3% of respondents ranked their deer season as “Excellent,” which is the highest percentage of excellent rankings GON has on record since the 1997-98 deer hunting season.  Only 12.3% of hunters rated their 2019-20 deer seasons as “Poor.” This is the lowest percentage of hunters…

Final Truck-Buck Scoring Date For 2019-2020 Deer Season

The final chance to get a rack measured for the Truck-Buck contest is Saturday, Feb. 14. Racks must be checked-in at the GON office by 12 noon, or they won’t be eligible. Only bucks entered during this deer season will be measured at the scoring event. Killing a nice buck is a celebration-worthy event, making…

2020 Wayne County Hog Jam Is Feb. 21-23

Georgia’s biggest and best hog-hunting extravaganza returns to southeast Georgia. The Wayne County Hog Jam is Feb. 21-23. Tournament headquarters are at the Jaycee Fairground in Jesup, and hunters can bring hogs from Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee. Prizes for biggest hog in various categories, including: • Biggest Hog Killed By Gun •…

Grouse Hunting Film Event Coming To Thomasville

A feature film on grouse hunting in America will be a highlight of an event on Feb. 8 in Thomasville, as Project Upland magazine and Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) host the Public Grouse Film Festival. It will take place at the Thomasville Center for the Arts. “This festival will highlight upland bird hunts from…

South Carolina Quail Council Works To Restore Quail

Quail restoration efforts in South Carolina improved exponentially recently when the 28 partners who make up the South Carolina Quail Council agreed to work together to help bring back the “Prince of Gamebirds.” “Quail restoration is one of the greatest conservation challenges we have ever faced because of the large-scale changes in land use that…

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