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Hunting
Recently the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service hosted a series of workshops across Georgia to educate hunters, farmers and the general public about the threat of wild pigs on the environment. Co-sponsors were the Georgia DNR, The Georgia Farm Bureau, the Georgia Department of Agriculture and the University of Georgia. This writer attended the meeting in…
A common practice among turkey hunters is to cover as much ground as possible in order to kill a turkey. I used to be the world’s worst about using that technique too often. We’ve all had those mornings where the trees are full of turkey music at the crack of dawn but then quickly turn…
It’s February, possibly one of the more popular months when folks get out to purposely find a hog to shoot on a WMA. This February’s biggest news on the public-land hog front is probably the floods that middle Georgia has sent downstream to Regions 3, 6 and 7, which has affected the hog hunting on…
There are many ways in which a wild turkey can hurt you. The first way is when you have done everything right to harvest a particular bird and he gives you the slip every time you think that you are about to close the deal. This is the kind of thing that will cause you…
Zero bears were harvested in central Georgia during the annual one-day hunt. The middle Georgia bear hunt was held on private properties in Bibb, Twiggs and Houston counties on Jan. 12, but no bears were registered at the Oaky Woods WMA check station. A pile of rain fell in December, and the Ocmulgee River flood…
By Alton Powell The story on my 1982 buck from Fannin County on Cohutta WMA… my wife and I drove our pickup camper up there and hunted early morning. The buck came along about 9.45 on a steep hilltop where he had scraped in several places. We were both up separate trees about 150 yards…
Michael C. Johnson, of Plainfield in Dodge County, started trapping and harvesting predators about nine years ago to have more wildlife on his property. A paramedic instructor and an ambulance service supervisor, Michael is passionate about having the most wildlife possible on the 4,000 to 5,000 acres his friends and family either own or allow…
Tom Cooper was living in Lilburn and was 33 years old when a chance happening in the Georgia deer woods changed his life forever. On the morning of Nov. 24, 1974, he set out alone in the cold darkness, driving toward public land for a typical day in the woods. As an avid deer hunter,…
A late season hunt for Brandon Hunnicutt, of Clayton, will likely land him in the No. 1 spot for the best buck ever recorded from Rabun County, located in the mountains in the extreme northeast corner of Georgia. Brandon killed a 12-pointer on Dec. 31 that is expected to gross 176 inches. After side-to-side deductions and…
Often times over the years I have heard people talk negatively about having the timber cut on their hunting land. You hear things like, “I have to go pull all of my stands.” “There goes all the work in the food plots.” “Every deer on the place will be run off.” Yes, you need to…
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