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Adventure Outdoors Offering Crossbow Package Blast Bargain

The GON Outdoor Blast is excited to announce that Adventure Outdoors is joining the 2018 Blast Bargains campaign and will be offering many items at a discounted price during the show. Blast Bargains is a special part of the three-day Outdoor Blast—we’re bringing pre-season deals back to hunting shows. Outdoor Blast vendors will be offering items…

Get Your Buck Scored At The Outdoor Blast

Georgia Outdoor News is giving away a brand-new truck to one lucky hunter at the Outdoor Blast. The hunter will be shooting in the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out on Saturday and Sunday. On Friday, the GON Youth Big-Buck Contest will be held as kids shoot for a $3,000 Adventure Outdoors shopping spree and Woods-N-Water weekend trip. To…

348 Fish Caught At Youth Fishin’ Rodeo

The Dublin Laurens County Recreation Authority (DLCRA) put on a Youth Fishin’ Rodeo May 5, 2018 at Southern Pines Regional Park, which turned out to be quite a successful day of fishing. “It was a good year this year because we had 28 young ’uns that caught 348 fish,” said Leon Morris, who helps put…

Monster Bass Caught At Tired Creek Lake

Sherry Vann, of Valdosta, was one of the first anglers to drop in at the newly opened Tired Creek Lake in Grady County on May 26, 2018. Being there on the second day the lake opened to the public paid off with a monster catch, a 14-lb. largemouth. Sherry and her boyfriend, JT Vickery, hit…

Cooper Hunting Offering Blast Bargains

The GON Outdoor Blast is excited to announce that Cooper Hunting is joining the 2018 Blast Bargains campaign and will be offering many items at a discounted price during the show. Cooper Hunting is known for their hunting blinds. Blast Bargains is a special part of the three-day Outdoor Blast—we’re bringing pre-season deals back to…

Project WINGS Deadline July 15

Plant it, and they will come. That is the wish of every hunter who sticks a seed in the ground. Work hard in planning, planting and managing a game food plot, then maybe your cost and sweat will pay off in increased sightings and harvest of game animals on your property. Plant it, and they…

Adventure Outdoors Offering Nomad Shirts Blast Bargain

The GON Outdoor Blast is excited to announce that Adventure Outdoors is joining the 2018 Blast Bargains campaign and will be offering many items at a discounted price during the show. Blast Bargains is a special part of the three-day Outdoor Blast—we’re bringing pre-season deals back to hunting shows. Outdoor Blast vendors will be offering items…

Win Great Prizes In GON’s Coyote Cull

For the fifth summer in a row, GON has organized the Coyote Cull to provide incentive for hunters and trappers to get after coyotes during the fawning and turkey nesting seasons. Killing coyotes in May and June is tough, but it can make a real difference in fawn and poult survival as young deer and…

Last Season’s Big Bucks Honored

The Georgia woods surrendered some very fine bucks in 2017, and the top-scoring bucks were recognized recently at the Georgia Outdoor Writers Association (GOWA) meeting in Blue Ridge at Mercier Orchards. The Georgia DNR Big Deer Contest is the state’s longest running big deer contest (started in 1968) and is administered by DNR retired biologist…

Hiker Attacked By Coyote In Middle Georgia

Nate Edmonds’ first up-close-and-personal encounter with a coyote proved to be much more exciting than he may have wanted it to be. On Saturday, May 26, 2018, Nate drove out to the Hitchiti Experimental Forest, also known as the Brender-Hitchiti Demonstration Forest. The area is about 5,000 acres of federal land adjacent to Piedmont National…