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Hunting
Don’t let the heat and humidity lull you into thinking hunting seasons are not right around the corner—we’re only six weeks from the start of squirrel season in Georgia! Here is a quick reference to the 2024-2025 Georgia hunting seasons. Most Georgia counties are either-sex for deer—meaning antlerless deer can be taken—during the entire deer…
With the dog days of summer coming to a close, deer hunters are anxiously waiting for the crisp autumn air to set in. Year after year, we spend countless hours pouring sweat, all in hopes that it pays off once the season comes around. With a cell cam and corn out, the stage was set…
A joy and highlight of deer hunting is the anticipation. Each sit, you just never know what might walk under your stand. And yes, while most of us hunt primarily to fill the freezer, even for meat hunters the sight of a big-racked buck ghosting through the woods gets the juices flowing like few things.…
It was opening morning of the 2023 rifle season, and I was in the perfect spot. I was in a box stand on a powerline that runs through our property in Laurens County. But unlike the many years in the past, I didn’t have a bow in my hand. Heck, I didn’t even have a gun. I was…
As deer season rolls around, the woods become filled with hunters ready to bag the big one for the wall or to fill the freezer. For all the enthusiasm you’ll find on social media, there’s also a growing sense that you need the latest and greatest equipment and gear to succeed in the field—a sentiment…
You know he’s out there, roaming around somewhere on the place. Ground sign here, trail-cam photo there, antlers everywhere… what’s it going to take for the two of you to meet up? He’s getting instinctively restless, is the buck, possibly not even realizing where these urges are coming from, but he is feeling the need…
Another season of duck hunting will roll around soon, and all duck hunters wonder how the Georgia duck forecast looks. Duck hunting here is dependent on many factors, and at the forefront is bad weather up North. Wet conditions in the spring and summer is good news in the breeding-ground wetlands, and nasty, cold weather…
Rain and swirling winds followed by scorching summer-like temperatures couldn’t dampen opening week of Georgia’s archery season. Hunters are flooding GON with pictures and stories of big bucks—and the season is only getting started. We have a super group of Hunt Advisors across the state who file reports from their deer woods. Here are their…
The first hint of cooler weather has tickled south Georgia, and the trees are slowly starting to show signs of trading in their green shady canopies for future burn-pile fuel in hints of orange, red and yellow. The corn has been picked and the fields have hosted early season dove shoots with the popping of…
Ashley Bowlden first started putting in for her Georgia alligator tags back in 2018, when she got to attend her first gator hunt. She loved it so much that she immediately started putting in for herself and her children every year, as well. Six years later, on the opening weekend of Georgia’s 2024 alligator season,…
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