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Hunting
That morning had started out unremarkable like so many others. In the predawn, 79-year-old I.W. (Bill) Hearn drove his truck from his home in Daisy, a tiny town on the outskirts of Claxton in Evans County, to a 40-acre field he owns south of town. He walked several hundred feet along the edge of the…
A giant bear has been killed in Rabun County! In fact, had the north Georgia bear been weighed prior to field-dressing, it would have been knocking on the door of becoming a new state-record bear. Brent Baker, of Clarkesville, was interested in shooting a deer on some private property in Rabun County during the weekend…
I got a call late one night in November from a client saying he just saw a picture of a giant bow-kill from Fulton County. I followed up and was fortunate enough to meet Lee Ellis, a first generation, self-taught archery hunter who takes chasing big deer seriously. In 10 years as a professional deer…
Most of us were taught growing up that practice makes perfect. For most things in life, this is pretty sound advice, but when it comes to bowhunting, not all practice is equal. There was a time, not too long ago, when archery practice consisted of a couple of square bales of straw and a paper…
Modern bows provide the speed to shoot heavier total arrow weights while the archer uses just one sight pin. What a difference from when I got started! The first archery shoot I attended was in the early 80s. The targets were large square bales of straw or cardboard with photos of animals with lines drawn…
More than 500 Georgia students from more than 25 schools traveled north to compete in the 12th annual National Archery In Schools Program (NASP) tournament. The event took place May 7-9 at the Louisville Exposition Center, and with more than 12,000 young archers competing, this is the world’s largest archery tournament. Archers from 42 states…
It’s encouraging to see more than 1,000 youth shooters spend a day during the school week flinging arrows down range to see who is top dog. I continue to be amazed at the popularity of Georgia’s National Archery In The Schools Program (NASP) and the great job WRD has done to promote it. In all,…
It was the first week of October last season. I had been scouting and found some fresh scrapes between a thick branch and 10-foot volunteer pines with lots of broom straw. The pines and broom straw looked like a great place for deer to bed. There was one problem. There was only one tree that…
In years past, the first or second week of November would find me on a trip to Ohio to hunt with my two nephews, Mark and Steven. But as luck would have it, our schedules would not allow us to go last year. My bowhunting in Georgia had started well last season with a nice…
On July 10-14, the Archery Learning Center Hornets archery team, form Snellville, competed in the Easton Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) Nationals in Hamilton, Ohio. After 12 long weeks of preparation and more than 130,000 practice arrows fired, the team was ready. Eighteen kids from the Hornets competed and brought home 13 medals and two…
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