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Every two years, Georgia’s Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) hosts a series of public meetings to get hunter input prior to making hunting-regulation proposals for the upcoming hunting seasons. The next round of these public meetings will be for the 2015-2017 hunting regulations. Meeting dates will take place Jan. 5-8 at 7 p.m. each night. Those…
A 150-class buck is special, but when a 10-year-old kid is the hunter, it becomes water-cooler chatter. The lucky hunter was Randal Holder (aka Boom), of Hawkinsville, and he killed the big buck on Thanksgiving morning in Houston County. He was hunting with his dad Doug. “Back at the beginning of the 2014 season, Boom…
If you haven’t got your venison in the freezer yet, you may have messed up. For most Georgia hunters, Dec. 1-25 will be buck-only hunting. And if you’re relying on the few days after Christmas to put some meat up, good luck. Hunting gets tough by then. There are exceptions to the buck-only days in…
It makes this GON editor smile knowing that we played even just a minor part in a hunter recovering his deer, while helping him through a very difficult period in his life. Justin Simpson, of Social Circle, was drawn to hunt the first 2014 quota hunt at Joe Kurz WMA. He was hunting on Oct.…
The later the better, that’s how some duck hunters view the often painful wait for birds to show up in Georgia. This year might be one of those rare seasons when waiting will mean missing out on some good duck hunting. Greg Balcom, a WRD senior wildlife biologist and our state waterfowl biologist, is expecting…
One or more poachers have ruined duck-hunting memories that were to be made this Saturday as duck season opens in Georgia. While doing regular checks in Laurens County on Riverbend and Beaverdam WMAs yesterday, Nov. 19, Wildlife Technician Robert Sanders found multiple sites where violators placed corn to attract ducks. "We are having to post…
As the fall rolls on, more and more hunters will begin to shift their thoughts from deer hunting to other things, like squirrel hunting. However, this change in thinking comes with a problem, at least if you’re a mountain hunter. Squirrel populations in northwest and northeast Georgia are at the lowest they’ve been since 1968,…
A giant, 16-point buck has been killed at Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge. The hunter, Joey Bickford, of Valdosta, was drawn for the Nov. 6-8 either-sex quota hunt. On the afternoon of Nov. 6, Joey got in the tree at about 3 p.m. “Joey had been in his stand about 30 minutes when he heard something…
In the spring, we asked GON readers to tell us about land they leased in 2013. The GON staff and publisher allowed us to post a notice in the February 2014 and March 2014 issues. Readers were directed to an online survey link and given the opportunity to answer 10 questions about their 2013 hunting…
I recently received a call from my uncle inviting me to come bowhunt behind their Cobb County house with my cousins. I jumped at the opportunity since this meant I wouldn’t have to get up so early like I normally would if I were going to our lease in Coweta County. Tuesday, Nov. 4 came,…