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When a deer overpopulation problem began to develop on 9,200 acres of Dalton Utilities property in Murray and Whitfield counties, instead of hiring sharpshooters or listening to the rhetoric of “birth control” as a solution, the company first invited hunters to help manage the deer herd. The result for hunters was access to some excellent…
When I pulled up to where Michael Mashburn had turned out his hounds only a couple of hours before, I could see the little buck stretched out in the grass behind his truck. I had turned out on a hill of plantation pines across a powerline from Michael, and when I heard him shoot, I…
What to do with a crisp, beautiful Saturday in November… In our busy lives the options are endless: stay home, build a fire, and watch football. Then again, it’s prime time to see a mature buck, maybe slip back to the creek stand. Or maybe it’s opening day of duck season, and you’re just minutes…
Cody Dalton isn’t your average 15-year-old hunter. Before his dream hunt to Little River Plantation in November he’d killed 33 deer, 13 of them with a bow. In fact, he took 13 deer in the 2004 season, one of them being on a check-in hunt at Ossabaw where the deer didn’t count against his state…
GON has been running a list of deer-trailing dog owners for the past several years as a way to ensure our readers would have every possible advantage when it comes to locating a deer. We also began to hear some neat stories, so we called a few folks and asked them to share their experiences…
For three years me and a couple of the boys from the office, along with some family and friends, have been hunting a 900-acre piece of old Weyerhaeuser timber land covered with thick pines, briars, clearcuts and a few hardwood drains. The club has lots of deer on it, so we’ve enjoyed the luxury of…
For years, GON has attempted to alert sportsmen to a continued assault on hunting, fishing, and law enforcement within the Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). This assault, also known as budget cuts, has hit personnel and programs that should service sportsmen, the very folks who have traditionally — and…
Want to kill a big buck? Simple, hunt the rut. That’s what you’ve been told year after year. Hunt high where you can see a long way, hunt all day, but most importantly, just hunt during the peak of the rut. Of course, deer hunting is not that easy, particularly when your sights are set…
Blame it on the south Georgia heat and bugs, blame it on how tough bowhunting can be, or, like some of those who attended the hunts, blame it on a simple lack of deer. The first two bowhunts on River Creek, Georgia’s newest WMA, produced zero deer. Both had quotas of 30 — 20 bowhunters…
On Sunday, January 23, 2005, DNR Law Enforcement Ranger First Class (RFC) Chris Hodge received a telephone call from a member of Mumfort Island Hunting Club in Camden County informing him about someone dumping a deer carcass at one of their gates. RFC Hodge drove to the area to investigate and located a deer carcass,…
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