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School snow days for kids in the Deep South are as rare as magazine sweepstakes winners. You are probably familiar with the event. The magazine folks bring a giant $1,000,000 cardboard check to people’s doors with TV cameras in tow, obviously hoping the shock will cause the recipient to fall over dead so no money…
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The First Time I Met Steve Burch Dear GON, Sometime back in the mid 80s, my wife, Debbie, and I were camping on Victoria Landing at Lake Allatoona. Early one morning as we were walking on the shoreline, I spotted something floating about 75 yards away. I have had some experience as a…
On the morning of Oct. 28, Karl VanVoorhis, of Harlem, killed two mature, heavy-racked bucks on Fort Gordon in Richmond County about 10 minutes apart. “I got set up 45 minutes before shooting light. It’s a great morning, and everything is perfect,” said Karl. “About 15 minutes after sunrise, I hear two bucks fighting. They…
The past several Outdoor Outpost columns have covered hunter participation and a growing concern that it has been dropping over the last 10 years. So what has changed? Why is it dropping? Well, for sure, it has a lot to do with what kids are doing with their free time. Homework from school should…
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Effingham County: Whether you keep your hunting license on your phone app, or if you have a paper version in your wallet, stop what you’re doing right now and check to make sure you have a valid hunting license. And make a note of when it expires. Here’s another case of a big Georgia buck—one…
It’s going to be a great year! Because I’m upright. As opposed to prone. I was prone for a brief bit in 2018. And prone, in case you’re wondering, ain’t much fun. Upright once more, it’s time to look forward to what we’ll be harrying, harvesting and dining upon over the course of the next…
What do you do with a guy who retires, but doesn’t leave, doesn’t fill up his cardboard box and drive off into the sunset? I moved him into a cubby-hole in the back of Production here at GON offices, gave him a flat, hard chair, and told him not to make too much noise. It…
By Mike Simmons A few friends of mine and I got selected for this year’s B.F. Grant WMA quota hunt in Putnam County from Nov. 1-3. We had attended this hunt two years ago, and although we did not see very many deer during that hunt due to the prevailing drought and uncharacteristically hot weather,…
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