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Hunting
The reports are good from opening weekend of gun season across Georgia, as hunters are reporting that they are seeing more deer than the past couple of seasons. Acorns are looking good from the mountains to south Georgia, and hunters are already having success by keying on acorns that are falling like rain in many…
At the 2006 Buckarama in August, I spent Saturday helping run the Quality Deer Management Association’s (QDMA) booth. This was a priceless opportunity for those of us on the QDMA staff to meet and talk with Georgia deer hunters — not only do we hear from QDMA members about their successful efforts but we get…
Kids, work, traffic… kids… Is it getting more difficult to find time for that other passion — deer hunting? With our lives seemingly more busy each year, every opportunity to get out in the woods to spend a morning or evening in a stand is some- thing to be cherished. For those who just don’t…
Hunters are becoming an endangered species. During the 2005-06 hunting season there were fewer hunters in the Georgia woods than since the 1972-73 hunting season 33 years ago. Over just the past five years, the number of hunters in Georgia — licensed resident, non-resident and honorary license-holders — has dropped from 292,209 to 238,383, a…
In the Department of Natural Resource’s (DNR) annual mast survey, the overall oak rating was a 3.14, which ranks as “Good” and is the highest rating that oaks can receive. A rating from 0.0 to 2.0 is poor, 2.01-3.0 is fair and anything above 3.0 is good. Red oaks topped the list this year, with…
I’ve been at this bowhunting thing for a pretty good while, about 37 years actually. As I look back, one of my fondest memories is of my first deer, a big doe I killed with a recurve in 1971 when I was 11 years old. I remember all the details of the hunt that beautiful…
Although it was the opening morning of the 2004 Georgia firearm’s season, I once again found myself headed to the woods with a bow in my hand. Walking before daylight in a flooded oak flat, I slowly crept along looking for the perfect tree. I quickly recounted my game plan. Sitting in the flooded acorn…
Michael Almand of Madison killed one of the biggest and certainly the most unusual buck GON has heard about during the bow-season opener. Michael was hunting a Morgan County tract of land on Saturday evening of opening weekend, September 9, when he arrowed a 21-point, non-typcial buck that was still in velvet. The buck had…
Every year, the majority of the best bucks killed in Georgia can be found in one place — they’re entered in the Truck-Buck contest. That says a lot about the credibility and popularity of the largest, most well-known deer contest in the state. The 2005-06 season was no exception. Truck-Buck entries included the No. 1…
For bowhunters, who use a relatively short-range weapon, nothing is more important than being able to get a close-in shot. The best way to do that is to locate food sources that deer are using and then set up close by. What will be the top food source this fall? Many early season bowhunters search…
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