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Hunting
Major changes to deer-hunting regulations enacted by the General Assembly will take effect for the coming deer season. Significant was the change that allows deer hunting to begin one week earlier in September. The upshot is that firearms season will be one week longer than normal. Statewide, archery season will open on September 14, P/W…
Deer season is over, and it looks like we had a big one. Early indications suggest that a substantial increase in either-sex opportunity across the state, including the end of “either-sex” days as we know them in the Southern Zone deer season, has resulted in a strong doe harvest. At the same time, it appears…
Should “yellow acorns” be legal? With legislators considering two proposed law changes during the 2002 Georgia legislative session that would legalize baiting for deer, GON asked its readers to fill out and mail back to us a survey question on the baiting issue. The number of responses was near a record-high for any GON survey…
Wyman Stowell, of Griffin, said he had hunted Oaky Woods WMA for three years and had not seen a deer. “But this place is so thick with planted pines that I thought there had to be a big deer in there.” On the afternoon of Nov. 28, 2001, Wyman was 18 feet up a tree…
For 10 minutes the buck was in sight around Jeff Banks’ deer stand. The first day of gun season, and evening hunt, and Jeff was about to shoot a buck—and that’s saying something. This is a man who has already killed and passed up bucks that would gross near 150. Pulling the trigger on a…
As I walked the two-thirds of a mile back to the tree where my portable stand was hung, it seemed as though you could see every star in the sky. It was 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 27, and about 24 degrees. I walked in slowly, as to not make any unnecessary noise, or get overheated. …
Before picking a tree to climb opening morning, it may be advantageous to first think about all the changes a piece of hunting property can go through. Recent clearcuts should be a little thicker while older ones may be more open. Was timber harvested? Maybe the oak branches are heavy with acorns — maybe they’re…
Opening day of archery season often presents a contradiction to southern bowhunters. We spend months practicing, scouting, placing stands, and getting ready. Anticipation is high, and we canʼt wait to get in the woods. Then, when we finally get to hunt in mid-September, we find that the heat is almost suffocating, and the bugs are…
The moment of truth came quickly for 33-year-old Tim Touchton of Nashville, Ga. It was Friday morning, November 24, the day after Thanksgiving last year. All week long, Tim had been hunting in a swamp bottom near the New River in western Berrien County. Having taken several days of vacation during the Thanksgiving week, he…
Before dawn last archery season, Luis Izquierdo was on the way to his bow stand at Misty Oaks Plantation in Worth County when he stumbled across an amazing scene. While jumping a barbed-wire fence separating two fields, a doe had caught one hoof between the top two strands, which twisted together and trapped the deerʼs…
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