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Hunting
Workers at the Burgess Pigment Co. plant in Toddville (near McIntyre) were surprised to find an exceptional buck swimming in one of their kaolin thickening pools on Oct. 14. The exhaused Wilkinson County buck was lassoed and dragged out of the pond, but when the rope in its antlers was cut, the deer bolted and…
Dear GON, My name is John Payne. I am an avid reader of your great magazine. Last year, I had an interesting hunting experience that I would like to share with you. In December of 1998, while dove hunting in Laurens County, I had a dove fall into a wooded ditch that borders the field…
After walking the woods for 28 years as a timber cruiser, Jackie Bailey, of Harrison, has found his share of racks and shed antlers. But nothing compares to the rack and skull he stumbled upon March 4, 1999. Jackie was marking trees in a stand of big pines about 3 1/2 miles northeast of Kite…
The discovery of a giant Monroe County state-record buck killed in 1961 was stunning and now another remarkable chapter can be added to the story of the Ashe buck. In February of 1961, less than nine months before Buck Ashe killed the 16-pointer that is now recognized as Georgia’s state-record typical, a rabbit hunter found…
WRD’s Game Management Section made the recommendation of 4 points on a side for the countywide quality deer management restrictions for Talbot County. WRD Biologist Scott McDonald looked at data from more than 300 deer supplied by Talbot County hunters. Based on the data, a 15-inch outside spread restriction, would have protected too high a percentage…
The 1998-99 deer season will probably be remembered for many things. The weather was scorching hot and bone dry throughout most of the season, white oaks were barren in many places where the deer season normally revolves around white oak acorns, and most hunters reported an absent, insignificant or off-schedule rut. Who would have guessed…
The opening morning of gun season found most deer hunters climbing up a tree with their favorite deer rifle. Mark Schroeder, of Albany, decided to leave the crowds and spend his gun season opener at Chickasawhatchee WMA with his bow. Even though his bowhunt only lasted 15 minutes, it a hunt that will remain in…
It was early November 1969. Give or take a few days, it was unquestionably the best week of the year to be chasing rutting whitetails in the deer woods of central Georgia. As usual, Skeeter and Glenda Grant of Flovilla were out attempting to do that very thing. They were hunting on a small tract…
Kevin Black, of Duluth, was on his way from Thomaston back to his Upson County hunting club on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 3, when he looked out his truck window and saw a strange and alarming sight. Standing beneath a massive water oak not far off the road were two bucks, their antlers jammed…
When is the rut? Answer that question, and your chances of killing a mature buck increase significantly. Unfortunately, it’s darn near an unanswerable question! The “rut” can mean different things to different people. For purposes of this article, we’re talking about the peak period of mature bucks chasing does. Using six years of hunt stories…
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