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Hunting
I used to worship turkeys. From about my junior year in high school well into adulthood, my pure reason for living was wrapped solely into one single thing: killing wild turkeys. In fact, I had decided that whenever I left this world, I wanted my lasting legacy to be that I was a great turkey…
It was the summer of 1993… Man… just saying that reminds me I’m starting to get old. Anyway back to the story. It’s April, the sun is shining, and I’m in a jon boat hoping and praying to somehow catch my first bass. I’m armed with a Zebco 33 and a Creme plastic worm. I’m…
Allatoona: Level: 3.2 feet below summer full pool. Temp: 62-64 degrees. Clarity: Slight stain to clear. Stripers and Hybrids: Guide Robert Eidson, of First Bite Guide Service, reports, “The bite is wide open right now both up the river and on the main lake. Fishing just doesn’t get much better than it is right now. Shiners, threadfins and small…
Hank Holder, of Porterdale, connected with a pair of B.F. Grant WMA 2-year-old gobblers on Monday, April 6, and both of them were wearing leg bands and had GPS transmitters on their backs. “I’d hunted 17 straight days, miles and miles from Redlands to Oconee National Forest to B.F. Grant,” said Hank. This was Hank’s…
South Georgia turkey hunting is being featured on the Country Outdoors Turkey Tour, an Outdoor Channel series hosted by Mary O’Neill Phillips and her husband Zach Phillips. Episode three of the series released last week featured turkey hunts in Cook County with young country music singer Jordan Rowe. The Rowe family, from Adel, are GON members.…
A 5-year-old girl was attacked by a coyote in a California park after a pack of coyotes approached a mother and her kids. The attack occurred at 2:20 in the afternoon in a suburban park near Oakland last week. According to Lt. Gretchen Rose, the mother tried to scare away the pack of five to…
Josh McDonald, of Americus, caught a hybrid bass on April 4 that weighed 7-lbs., 11.84-ozs. that sets a benchmark for a brand-new river record on GON’s Georgia Lake and River Records list. He was spending the day with his older brother Jason and his twin brother Justin. “We are all baseball coaches, so we never…
God’s timing is perfect. It took 64-year-old Raymond Gibbs, of Cordele, 14 years of turkey hunting before he finally sealed the deal and killed his first gobbler. It all came down on Friday, March 27, 2020 when Raymond squeezed the trigger on a Dooly County longbeard. “Fourteen years of waiting and waiting. There were times…
What to think of the ‘Yeah Buts.’ I have been disappointed in the reaction of some who support what they call a “lockdown” and use social media to chirp—or yell—at those who have a more practical and workable view to get through our situation. As far as defining what is practical, I support a lockdown.…
Does COVID-19 have you cooped up at home staying socially distant from others? Take advantage of that down time by using QDMA’s online resources to learn more about the white-tailed deer, deer hunting and deer management. To make things a little easier during this difficult time, QDMA has decided to offer a temporary discount on…
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