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Anyone out there giving Gerald Gilbert, of McDonough, a hard time for his buck, which was listed as a pick-up in GON’s County-by-County Buck Rankings in October, needs to start congratulating him. Gerald’s 180 1/8-inch net non-typical buck was a legitimate opening-day rifle kill last season. It was our mistake it was accidentally listed as…
It’d be hard to special order an opening morning much better than that! The stars seemed to finally align for the opening day of gun season in Georgia. It was crisp — dang near cold — there was a good moon phase, acorns were drawing deer like flies to mom’s potato salad and the Dawgs were taking…
There are different ways for a deer hunter to use scents while hunting, but not near as many ways as there are types of scents available on today’s market. One thing to note is that all scents are not lures, but all lures are scents. The difference is a scent of any type is just…
Deer season is here! No doubt folks will be spending some time at hunting camp. Any good camp has a guy who’d rather stand around a smoker than anything else. Show him this spicy recipe, but tell him to be careful with the red pepper flakes. Two tablespoons are enough to smoke your tongue. Smokin’…
By Kyle Wall My brother and I had an interesting encounter on his trail camera in Baldwin County. I have pictures that show a pack of coyotes that actually kill a deer on camera. I have two pictures of the small buck alive. Twenty minutes later, the same buck is dead in front of…
Ever wonder how folks end up on the GON cover? Mark Wilkins, of Buckhead, will tell you all it takes is a phone call. But first you have to kill a cover buck. Mark hunted his 129 6/8-inch Pope & Young buck for more than a year before arrowing it the second afternoon of bow…
It’s tightening up at the top of GON’s rankings of Georgia counties for their big-buck production. Topping the list for years with scores that approached 200 points were Dooly and Macon, neighboring counties along the Flint River long known for being the best trophy-buck counties in the state. The latest numbers have been crunched, and…
For some of us, it’s just too dang hot to get serious about bowhunting the second week of September in Georgia, but we’ve been blessed with some stellar mornings and unseasonably cool temperatures this season. Comfortable conditions show in the results — lots of deer seen and some nice bucks killed. The month’s reports from our…
Georgia deer hunters killed a pile of deer last season. You’d have to go all the way back to 1997 to rival the estimated 464,000 deer that hunters took out of the woods last year. It was an 18 percent increase in harvest over the 2009 season and continues the trend of growing hunter and…
From a hospital bed, Daryl Caldwell, of Concord, warned Georgia hunters to watch out for trees killed by the drought when looking for a place to hang their climbers this year. Daryl had seen a good buck in the area of his Meriwether County club where he hung his climber the afternoon of Monday, Sept.…
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