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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The GON Outdoor Blast is excited to announce that Outright Hunting Products is joining the 2018 Blast Bargains campaign and will be offering many items at a discounted price during the show. Outright Hunting Products sells their Morph-Pro Bow Hanger System and other bow hunting products. Blast Bargains is a special part of the three-day…
The issue of how far a Georgia deer hunter must be from placed feed — or bait — took a major step toward “legal with no distance requirement” for all private-land hunters today. After the legislature failed to act on several proposed law changes to make baiting legal statewide for deer hunters, Governor Nathan Deal…
Family members kayaking with a man who was bitten in the hand by a rattlesnake originally told first-responders that the snake had fallen out of a tree into the man’s kayak. On Tuesday, they said the man actually picked up the snake with his bare hands, foxcarolina.com reported. The man paddled over to what he thought was an alligator…
The fisheries departments from Georgia and Alabama have combined efforts to stock 30,000 striped bass fingerlings in the Coosa River above Lake Weiss in the past month. The striper stocking, the first in this lake and river system since the mid 1980s, will supplement an existing population that is one of the few landlocked, freshwater…