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When is comes to Pope & Young-class bucks, Georgia’s 2004-05 hunting season was the year of the metro-Atlanta buck. Of 26 officially scored bucks to date, 13, or 50 percent of the statewide total, were killed in nine metro-Atlanta counties. The trend toward suburban bucks is not new, but a continuation of a trend. On…
The owner of one of Georgia’s most recognized deer coolers can add another feather to his cap. Bill Hilsman, who used to have an opening-day barbeque and a big-buck contest that made Hilsman’s Deer Cooler near McDonough a fixture to Piedmont hunters, began a program last year that provided venison and a cash donation to…
The first of three House Wildlife Management Study Committee meetings took place Aug. 19, 2005 in Perry. There were 102 people at the meeting, and they listened to speakers state their cases for and against the issue of hunting over bait/feed. This House Wildlife Management Study Committee was created because the subject of hunting over…
After watching the 120-class, 8-point buck feed on peas for 20 minutes just 30 yards away, Phil Webb now had a sinking feeling as he watched the buck slowly walk directly away and out of the food plot. “That would have been my second-biggest buck ever. I had the safety on and off several times,” Phil…
For the second year in a row, Lee County is No. 1 in Georgia in the 2005 rankings when it comes to producing high-scoring bucks. GON has rated the big-buck production of counties for 12 years. In nine of those years Macon County was No. 1, every year except in 2000 when Dooly County slipped…
The old buckʼs head snapped to attention, ears and eyes scanning, searching for something that had alarmed it. For an hour the buck had grazed in a hayfield in the middle of night undisturbed. To the buckʼs left, a mile over the treeline, a single-cell summer thunderstorm raged beyond the Ocmulgee River. The thunderhead, black…
To make the Boone & Crockett Record Book, a typical buck must score at least 170 inches. Tony Lewis of Cordele hammered a Dooly County buck on a drizzly day in November that would eclipse the minimum by better than 10 inches. Tony, who says he doesn’t hunt as much as he used to since…
My first hunting memories were born on B.F. Grant WMA. Growing up east of Atlanta, dad and I wore some tires out running back and forth to this 14,000-acre Putnam County WMA, roaming hardwood hillsides and creek bottoms for squirrels and turkeys. In the early 1990s I killed my first turkey there. The first drake…
It’s been said that bowhunters alone won’t be able to reduce a deer population. According to Clayton County Water Authority (CCWA) personnel, its deer population has dropped in half thanks to bowhunting efforts. Prior to 1996 the CCWA had deer problems — an estimated 80 to 100 deer per square mile, according to Jep Palmer,…
Samantha, a 15-year-old girl from Worth County, took home the Ladies Wild-Card for the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out. And she came within a couple of inches of beating her dad, Week 1 winner Gary King, out of the season’s bragging rights for the family’s biggest buck as well. Samantha is no stranger to Truck-Buck, finishing second in…
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