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Scrapbook – August 2018
Reader Contributed | August 10, 2018
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Ben Stone, of Conyers, was hunting with his dad on their Jasper County farm last Oct. 30 when Ben shot this 8-point buck.
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Bret Vinson, 18, of Columbus, got in a sit after morning class on Nov. 1, and it paid off with this Marion County 8-pointer.
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Zach Bradley, of Carroll County, with a 46-inch, 15-lb. longnose gar he shot while bowfishing when the Chattahoochee River flooded outside its banks in west Georgia on June 8.
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Lee Henthorn (left) and 2017 Truck-Buck winner Max Lewis, both of Albany, with a more than 300-lb. female hog that had tusks measuring 4 inches and 3 7/8 inches. Lee said it took a tractor with a front-end loader to get the massive hog out of the field where they killed it with night-vision optics.
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Jimmy Laska, of Tifton, saw this Randolph County 9-pointer the previous morning running a doe, and the buck came back Nov. 17, busting a group of does “like a covey of quail,” he said.
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Adel’s Josh Blackston shot this 9-pointer on Nov. 16 while hunting in Tift County. He called it his “Redemption Buck” after losing a big buck the week before.
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Joe Silvers, of Fairmount in Gordon County, killed this 6-foot timber rattlesnake on May 4 at his barn. The snake was as big round as Joe’s arm and had 12 rattles.
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Here’s a public-land bird from last season killed by Chris Turple, of Grovetown. Chris was at Clark Hill WMA when he killed the gobbler with 1 1/8-inch spurs and a 10-inch beard.
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WF McCullough, who had a 75th birthday in June, was hunting from a blind and used his mouth to grunt and stop this Spalding County 9-pointer for a shot last Nov. 13.
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Instead of hunting his bow stand on Nov. 12, the wind caused Trey Nevils, of Wrens, to hunt a stand only set up for gun hunting where he hoped to just kill a hog. This 8-pointer stepped out at 160 yards, and it was the buck Trey had been bowhunting 1,600 yards away.
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Check out this buck still in full velvet when killed on Nov. 3 and growing a funky rack. Cory Wilson, of Locust Grove, shot the awesome deer in Meriwether County last season.
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Kaylene Weaver, of Montezuma, said they needed meat for the freezer, so she shot two does while hunting in Macon County the morning of Nov. 15. Then the big 12-point came in checking out the second doe she had shot.
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This impressive double-beamed buck with a drop tine was killed Nov. 15 in Webster County by Frank Cawthon, of Windermere, Fla.
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Lots pictures in three years, but Nov. 2 was only the second encounter with this Harris County 10-pointer for Keith Page, of Columbus.
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Jordan Beeching, of McRae, with the 8-point buck he shot on Halloween morning last season in Appling County.
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