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Last fall, next door to my family’s hunting land in Wayne County, some of our neighbors noticed a buck behaving strangely. He was running in circles in a pecan orchard in broad daylight, in the backyard of a home. Corky Thrower, Key Roberson and Edwin Tyre, all deer hunters, approached the buck cautiously and filmed…
GON friend and 4-H volunteer extraordinaire Chris Sager recently received the GA 4-H Salute to Volunteer Excellence award. Chris is the 4-H BB competition guru who makes the GON Youth Big-Buck Contest operate so smoothly. Chris sights in our Daisy 499B Champion rifle, handles our practice session and is even our official gun cocker during the Shoot-Out. After…
Cedar Creek WMA WILL NOT be open until two weeks after the statewide season starts. This year’s spring gobbler season on Cedar Creek WMA will be held April 6 to May 15. In an effort to learn more about factors causing the decline in turkey populations, Cedar Creek WMA is one of the areas where…
NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE THE CHANCES OF WINNING. 1. Eligibility: Contest is open only to those who sign up through the QR code scanned during the AgPro GON Outdoor Blast and who are at least 21+ years old at the time of entry. The sweepstakes is…
An alligator that measured 13-feet, 4-inches long recently had to be put down, according to Brent Howze, a WRD biologist in southwest Georgia. The large gator that could easily have been 50 years old was found by a farmer in an irrigation ditch in the Parker Slough area in the upper western portions of Lake Blackshear…
The Archery Trade Association has partnered with multiple state wildlife agencies, including Georgia, on a bowhunter participation and interest study. A portion of this study involves a random phone survey (being conducted by Responsive Management), which is currently underway, so hunters may get a call. The ultimate goal is to determine what type of customer…
The National Wild Turkey Federation’s Grand National Calling Championships (GNCC) has grown to be one of the most important and storied calling competitions in the country since it began in 1977. To commemorate the long line of individuals who made their mark on competitive turkey calling and the championships itself, the NWTF created the GNCC…
On Feb. 2, Providence Baptist Church in Newnan hosted an open archery event that was available to kids from the first grade all the way up to the 12th grade. The day of archery shooting was part of Centershot Ministries, an outreach program that allows for archery and Bible study. “With equipment owned by the church, 20 children…
The second of two scoring events for GON’s Truck-Buck Contest and the GON Youth Big-Buck Contest was held in Madison on Saturday, Feb. 23. From among the more than 700 entries during the 2018-19 deer season, we now have the numbers crunched and know which hunters are in line to make the prestigious trip to the Outdoor Blast for the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out…
The second of two scoring events for GON’s Truck-Buck and Youth Big-Buck contests was held in Madison on Saturday, Feb. 23. Fifty-four youth 15 and younger showed up to have their bucks scored in the hopes of moving onto the GON Youth Big-Buck Shoot-Out on Friday, July 26 at the Outdoor Blast in Duluth. The winner of that BB-rifle competition will…