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With firearms deer season underway, most people have already set their stands up and are ready to do some serious hunting. Every hunter knows, however, that sometimes the best-looking stand location isn’t quite right. It’s too far from that trail the deer are using, nearby foliage is blocking a shot, or the deer aren’t hitting…
I remember how excited I’d get the Thursday before opening day of gun season. I’d get home from school and my dad was already loading up our 1974 Chevy Blazer. He’d be packing the essentials that were needed for a weekend at deer camp: hunting clothes, orange vests, sleeping bags and about a week’s worth…
Maybe the best thing I ever did to strengthen my deer-hunting knowledge was to buy a pack of beagles. My dive into the rabbit-dog world started three years ago when I bought a pair of beagles. I got access to hunt several hundred acres that was covered with short pines and briars. It may have…
Georgia’s deer-harvest numbers from last season are in, and they prove what a lot of hunters knew already: the 2004-05 season was an off year for Georgia deer hunting. What the survey numbers say is that deer harvest dropped by 16 percent last year. The buck harvest dropped 15 percent to the lowest level since…
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…
You know how rare a Boone & Crockett buck is, right? To kill a buck that is listed in the all-time record book takes some doing, otherwise, the book would be so heavy, you and two of your friends couldn’t pick it up. I mean, it’s not every season, or for the vast majority of…
If you have ever dreamed of hunting on a south Georgia plantation, but never thought you would get the opportunity, get ready! Your chances have just increased dramatically, thanks to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) recent acquisition of some prime property in Thomas County. Nestled between the confluence of the Ochlockonee River and…
In one of the most-exciting finishes ever for the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out, youth was served yet again, and this time it was a 13-year-old young lady who out-shot everyone to win a brand-new pickup truck. Brooke Tomlin’s exciting victory was the third time in 16 Shoot-Outs that a youth 15 years old or younger has won…
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…
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