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Just before the kids have to go back to school, there’s a great way to put a wrap on a Georgia summer while getting pumped up and ready for the upcoming hunting seasons. The Ag-Pro GON Outdoor Blast returns to the LakePoint Sports Champions Center in Emerson near Lake Allatoona the last weekend in July.…
An 8-year-old Villa Rica girl is home from the hospital and recovering after being bit by a copperhead snake near her home. Quick action by her mother, and by her 9-year brother, who is being hailed as a hero, are credited with the girl’s recovery. Southerlyn Fisher was playing at Lamar Moody Lake on May…
You’ve probably heard that we all get by with a little help from our friends. That’s certainly true when you are putting together a three-day sportsman’s show where folks can gather to celebrate hunting, fishing and Georgia’s great outdoors. The Ag-Pro GON Outdoor Blast is the perfect example. GON has been blessed to have great…
More than 230 sportsmen, women, and conservationists from across the Southeast gathered at Adventure Outdoors for the annual Sportsman’s Banquet and Auction hosted by the Georgia Chapter of Safari Club International (SCI). Preliminary numbers indicate a record-breaking night for fundraising. Georgia SCI was proud to again recognize outstanding individuals from the Georgia Department of Natural…
Animals that eat fawns, turkey eggs and rabbits are high interest. Therefore, we’ve partnered with our friends at the Georgia Trappers Association to bring their equipment and know-how and share it with Outdoor Blast show-goers. GTA will host three trapping seminars at the Blast, and we know coyotes—a hot-button critter—will certainly be part of their…
You don’t have to search long to find parallels and common denominators between the major U.S. cities of Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Atlanta. Employment opportunities, major sports teams, the availability of the arts, diverse populations and progressive attitudes are the reason that many give for making these cities home. There is one little-known…
Kevin L. Mote, 36, of Eatonton was arrested on March 18, 2023 and jailed in Putnam County on charges of obstruction of an officer and is accused of the theft of a Department of Natural Resources (DNR) trail camera. According to DNR Law Enforcement Division Sergeant Lynn Stanford, the last image from a trail camera…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Council to Advance Hunting and Shooting Sports APRIL 10, 2022 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attendees of the 88th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, which wrapped up last week in St. Louis, got the first look at the results of the Hunting License Sales 2021 – 2022 report that documented…
The second of two scoring events for GON’s Truck-Buck and Youth Big-Buck contests was held in Tifton on Saturday, March 18. We measured a number of racks from youth hunters, 15 and younger, who showed up to have their bucks scored in the hopes of moving on to the GON Youth Big-Buck Shoot-Out. The winner of that…
The racks have been measured and the numbers crunched, and GON now knows which hunters are in line to make the prestigious trip to the Ag-Pro GON Outdoor Blast for the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out and Youth Big-Buck Contest. Only GON subscribers or their dependents who entered bucks during the season could get their racks measured during the Truck-Buck…