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Hunting
Every season we hear some sad stories from longtime GON subscribers who forgot to renew their memberships… “First time in 10 years I let my subscription run out…” You know what happened next. They killed the biggest buck of their lives, and that dream of taking part in the Truck-Buck contest, the pageantry of the…
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…
GON’s Youth Big-Buck contest is back! A winning youth will collect a $3,000 shopping spree at Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna and go deer and hog hunting with the fantastic folks at Woods-N-Water outfitters. I couldn’t imagine walking into Adventure Outdoors and getting to spend $3,000 on whatever I wanted. Guns, bows, camo, tree stands, coolers,…
GON just gave away another 4×4 Chevy pickup truck to a deer hunter. It’s become a Georgia hunting tradition—the Truck-Buck contest with weekly winners all through deer season and a grand-prize Shoot-Out the next summer… and somebody driving home from the Shoot-Out in a new truck. Or, as was the case last year, riding home…
The draft plan for managing Georgia’s deer herd for the next 10 years, “Georgia’s Deer Management Plan 2015-2024, was released Aug. 1. How does the plan address deer populations, bag limits, season dates, baiting, coyotes and other issues key to sportsmen? What’s a Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP), and how will it function and be…
Georgia is truly blessed with a variety of public hunting opportunities. From the mountains in the north, Piedmont hills in the central part of the state and to sandy hills and swamps in the south, we truly have a huge variety of land to hunt. Having two boys born in the 1990s and watching them…
Imagine the emotions felt by area landowners and hunters when word got out that a beautiful buck, still in velvet and still growing a super set of antlers, was shot and killed by a poacher. Anger, frustration, heartache… did we mention anger? According to DNR’s Law Enforcement Division (LED), the buck was shot by a…
Thanksgiving Day morning nine months earlier: Dillon Craft thought his heart was going to pound right through the front of his hunting jacket. Fifty yards from where he sat nervously in his deer stand, a monster buck was thrashing a decent 8-pointer. Dillon could see only flashes of brown deer hide through the trees…
Will Mitchell, 15, of Martin, has some serious things to think about. He’s got to figure out how he is going to spend $3,000 at Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna. Wow! Will won the shopping spree by winning GON’s Youth Shoot-Out on Friday, July 25 at GON’s Outdoor Blast at the Gwinnett Center. He out shot…
Wonder what the plan will be to set deer limits, doe days, season dates and address the different regs for different parts of the state? Speak now, or forever hold your peace… at least when it comes to the quality of your deer hunting in Georgia for the next 10 years. The Wildlife Resources Division…
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