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Scrapbook – November 2023
Reader Contributed | October 31, 2023
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This big wild hog was killed last November in Telfair County by Rome’s Taylor Dowdy.
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Matthew Rudd, currently living in Statesboro and from LaGrange, with a pair of wood ducks he killed on the Ogeechee River last season. The hen was banded in Maryland.
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Here’s the No. 24 Warren County buck of all-time in GON’s Georgia Deer Records. James Horton, of Mitchell, shot the 8-pointer last season on Oct. 22. The big 8 has a 12-inch tine and 18 1/2-inch inside spread, and it netted 136 6/8.
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Andrew Folsom had his dad Chad on the calls for his first bird, killed in Carroll County.
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Elaine Hoyt, 76, made a perfect 25-yard shot with her crossbow to down this 7-point buck in Forsyth County on Oct. 2. This is Elaine’s seventh buck in seven years—she started deer hunting at age 70!
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First bear with a bow for Dylan Beasley. Dylan was bowhunting in Dawson County when he shot the bear Sept. 18.
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After never seeing a coyote before while deer hunting, Hull’s Donald Watkins saw three last season and killed this black coyote. He hunts in Madison County.
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Dawson Holland, of Jasper, got his first buck last season in January, and an hour later he shot a doe. He was 16 years old.
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Audrey Carrin was 17 when she got her first buck last November—an impressive Henry County deer.
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Ashlie Bell, of Kennesaw, caught her personal-best bass while fishing a private lake in Lee County on July 22. Ashlie’s bass weighed 8-lbs., 15-ozs.
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A Wilcox County bowhunt on opening day produced this 3×5 8-pointer for Nick Lanneau, of Cordele.
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Newborn’s Lindsey Long downed this Newton County 8-pointer on opening day of archery season while bowhunting with her husband.
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Jason Stoughton, of Dallas, arrowed this Cobb County 10-pointer during the first week of archery season.
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Great first deer with a bow for Jase Burris, of Bloomingdale. Jase was hunting in Bulloch County on Sept. 15 when he made a 21-yard shot on the 8-pointer.
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Hunter Franklin, of Thomaston, with her Hancock County 11-pointer taken with a crossbow on Sept. 15.
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Hope Morton, of Elberton, got this Elbert County 10-point buck with her compound bow on opening day of archery season.
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Cody Lauer, of Fort Myers, Fla., with his Warren County 7-point crossbow buck.
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Opening day on a Meriwether County dove field was good to Carrie Neal, of Forsyth.
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Jordan Bellamy, of Waycross, was 16 last season when she downed this Ware County buck while hunting her Papa.
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His first-ever gobbler was a good one! Drew Helm, of Jefferson, was hunting in Jasper County last season when he got his gobbler.
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