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As the 2005-06 deer season went from archery, to primitive-weapons week, to full-blown gun season, one thing remained constant. Big bucks were being taken at a fast clip, and entries for the Truck-Buck contest were coming from every corner of the state. Weeks 7-11 of the contest provided plenty of thrilling tales and some lifelong…
Truck-Buck is not the kind of contest that someone pays an entry fee up front expecting to win a truck because they have the best land in the state. Rather, it has always been a contest more about recognizing and celebrating the fortunate, everyday GON subscribers who kill good bucks. This year there is a…
“I knew one of us was going to get him,” said Travis Brantley when he saw the trail-camera photos of the 10-point buck. Travis and three buddies were hunting a 100-acre tract in Washington County and had nine trail cameras set out around their property. A particular 10-pointer kept showing up on their trail-camera pictures,…
For a deer hunter, there are few feelings as low as when a blood trail begins to peter out, and then the next drop can’t be found. It’s even more gut wrenching when a hunter dedicates 18 hours of intense effort, including two different tracking dogs, only to finally have to give up the search.…
The WRD is completing hunter-survey data from Georgia’s 2005-06 deer season, and the information on hunter numbers is not good. Deer-hunter numbers continued to decline at an alarming rate. According to the survey, the number of deer hunters in Georgia last season, including licensed resident, honorary license holder, and non-resident hunters, was 238,000, a decline…
The quick, frenzied crack and clatter of antler against antler was unmistakable. My first thought, someone had slipped onto our Henry County lease, that a trespasser was rattling. It was the third week of October, about 10:30 on a Wednesday morning many years ago. A cool, steady breeze had tempted me out of a treestand…
Plant it, and they will come. Just make sure you don’t hunt it too much. If you do, or if you make some mistakes in how you hunt it, they may only come at night. Or they might stop coming at all. Deer and food plots… the idea of turning dirt and sowing seed for…
Most hunters picked for one of the Ossabaw Island quota deer hunts this season found the hunting tougher than normal, at least compared to the heyday for high hunter-success rates in the late 1990s. Several factors have changed the way hunters have to go about collecting venison and pork. For the first time in a…
Things at the state capitol were status quo in 2006. That is to say, they changed every few minutes, and staying on top of legislative happenings got harder as the session went along and bills moved through various stages of the lawmaking process. Two different bills dealing with baiting, a carry-over bill from 2005 that…
It was unanimous. Every person who expressed an opinion about the deer hunts planned for Fort Yargo State Park were in favor of the deer population being reduced. Approximately 75 people showed up at the DNR public meeting on the proposed hunting regulations April 20 at Fort Yargo State Park, and the pending hunts were…
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