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With the single largest donation that Moultrie Technical College (MTC) has received in the school’s 50-year history, benefactor Clarence Smith’s gift of 107 acres of beautiful wooded property on Perdue Road in Tift County in 2007 opened wide the field for the beginnings of MTC’s Fish and Wildlife Management program.The tract of land is used…
There’s still time to sign-up for a free youth-only squirrel hunt with dogs at West Point WMA this coming Saturday, Jan. 10. “It’s a free hunt with a free lunch Saturday at noon,” said event organizer Dave Cheshire, who goes by “crackerdave” on the GON web forum. There are limited youth spots available, so parents…
Each January, GON offers the chance to voice opinions on issues that affect sportsmen. In addition to the annual Rate Your Season survey, we’re asking three other questions on this year’s January cover ballot that center around topics that will come up for discussion at the WRD hunting-regulations meetings this month. To see the dates…
Recently I received an e-mail from WRD with the header “DNR Quota Hunt Assessment.” The first four questions asked about my WMA quota-hunt application and hunting experiences over the last three years. The fifth and last question asked: “Would you support or oppose a small application fee for quota hunts administered by the DNR Wildlife…
Every two years, 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 and locations are printed below. All meetings start at 7 p.m. At these meetings, biologists…
One of the most impressive bucks killed in Georgia this season was an 18-point Dooly County deer that has total inches galore and brow tines that don’t quit. The buck, appropriately named “Big Brow,” was a family effort. It was shot by Scott Kirbo, of Atlanta, on Nov. 8. “My dad, uncle and I have…
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.…