GON Mathews Bow Winner Shares Some Deer Fruit

Dear GON,

I just wanted to thank you again for starting GON and doing so much for Georgia hunters! This year I got to go on an out-of-state hunt for the first time to South Dakota. I was able to have my bow set up before going.

I want you to know if it wasn’t for that bow I wouldn’t have been able to shoot that buck. He’s a 140-inch 7-pointer, and I shot him at 65 yards.

My old bow definitely couldn’t have made that shot! And I definitely couldn’t have ever afforded a nice bow like that! I really can’t thank you enough. I just wanted to show how much you do in the lives of all the hunters. Thank you so, so much again.

Ann Lester, 2019-20 Week 1 Mathews Bow Truck-Buck Winner

Ann Lester

Young Trout Angler Appreciates Wildcat Creek Re-opening

Dear GON,

I recently wrote to GON about the closure of Wildcat Creek because the National Forest Service didn’t fix the road after it washed away. I am pleased to say that it was fixed this week, and I got to fish it today. I caught my personal best trout at 13.5 inches (I don’t lake fish for trout, so I don’t catch big ones).

If anyone read my letter and did something, thank you.

Harley Hallford, Cobb County

Harley Hallford

GON Social

GON Instagram: The winner of GON’s opening day hat giveaway on Instagram was Aaron Fuller. He killed this bruiser in Morgan County on the first morning of bow season.

GON Instagram: First deer! Congrats Bradley Futral, 7, of Mansfield. Killed on Sept. 13.

GON Twitter: One of two big gobblers taken by Jake Goff during the first part of the 2020 turkey season.

GON Facebook: Liam Banks, 10, of, Hollonville, used a crossbow to kill his first buck while hunting in Pike County on Sept. 13.