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Bear Hunting
Charlton County: On Sept. 28, 2019, Game Warden First Class Sam Williams was contacted about a poaching complaint on a Charlton County hunting club. Members of the Thin Blue Line Hunting Club had knowledge of a member, Donald Gray, who they said had taken over the limit of bear, had hunted bear at night, had…
The family leaves for a quick trip to Disney World and you can’t go because of work. How about slipping away for a few hours to bear hunt on a Saturday? That was the situation that Quent Floyd found himself in on Dec. 21, 2019 when Houston, Twiggs and Bibb counties held their annual one-day…
By Robert Nash After four long years of waiting, it happened. I was able to finally catch up to one of the elusive black bears that roam the forests of Cohutta WMA up close to Ellijay. Every year around the first full week of bow season, me and my buddy Reece Abernathy head up to…
Sixty-one bears were killed by the 110 hunters who participated in a nine-day quota bear-dog hunt on Chattahoochee and Chestatee WMAs Sept. 28 – Oct. 6. Eleven of the 15 parties drawn for the hunt showed up to participate. “Obviously there are a lot of bears in this area, as many or more than anywhere…
Early results from an ongoing research study looking into the drastic decline in deer harvest and hunter success in the north Georgia mountains doesn’t bode well for fawn survival. Only three of 13 fawns tracked by researchers at the Chattahoochee National Forest survived to 4 months. According to a presentation at the Southeast Deer Study…
Hunters saw a few surprises when the proposed hunting regulations for the 2019-2020 and the 2020-2021 seasons were first unveiled on March 28. There were numerous changes proposed, including additions and reductions to firearms either-sex deer hunting days in north Georgia, a shift of the one-day central Georgia bear hunt from January to December, and…
The arrival of spring heralds many things, including increased reports of black bear sightings and activity. These sightings are normal and to be expected across our state, according to Georgia DNR. Where have the bears been? Hibernating! Many Georgia black bears, especially females with young cubs, have spent the last several months, from about Thanksgiving…
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…
Larry Davie, of Waycross, went to check his hog trap and found six dead hogs in the trap, torn to pieces. “Glad I had the trail camera on the trap,” said Larry. Otherwise, he might not have known for sure what occurred on the Ware County hunting property. In the final trail-cam picture in a…
Chaos. Imagine being surrounded by a dozen different languages, all at the top of each screamer’s voice. They meld into an echoing cacophany that renders making sense of what’s going on nearly impossible. Nearly. It has taken half a lifetime to scrape together a pidgin which is workable quite possibly in my mind only. I…