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Hunting
On Dec. 2, Ronnie Wilbanks, of Fairmont, decided to head to his Gordon County hunting club for an afternoon hunt. Little did he know that he was about to make history by taking the biggest buck ever to come from Gordon County. Ronnie was walking to his spot, a high hill that overlooks a grown-up…
A weekend deer hunt on the Oconee National Forest in Putnam County turned into a nightmare for Marty James, of Lilburn, when a killer tornado tore through the woods and trapped him under a massive oak tree for more than four hours. Marty James and two friends, Paul Taylor and his son Doug, both of…
If there is an axiom about killing big bucks on hunt clubs, it is this: “Guests Kill Big Bucks.” Stan Steiner, who works for the DNR Fisheries Section and runs Moosehead Taxidermy in Americus, is the proof of that rule. On Dec. 21, Stan was invited to hunt on a 1,200-acre private farm in Lee…
Before deer season opened this year, Jeff Hill, of Tucker, had been hoping that he would be lucky enough to take a mountable buck this season. He succeeded in a way far beyond his dreams. His Nov. 23 hunt turned out to be his ultimate deer-hunting fantasy. The 1991-92 deer hunting season hadn’t started out…
It was midnight at the hunting camp about six weeks ago. We’d been down on a dove hunt—deer scouting— stand hanging—work day weekend and it had been hot. The night temperature was comfortable, if clammy, and the soft breeze was just enough to keep the mosquitoes away. Light from a naked bulb 50 feet away…
If you’ve been staring at your big game tags trying to make sense of what’s printed on the tags and what’s written in the state regs about the season bag limit, what you see isn’t exactly what it appears to be. Those tags that are marked “Archery Only, Antlerless Deer Only,” aren’t. What happened is…
The 1990 Georgia deer hunting season will go into the books as the state’s best ever for big buck production. So far we know of at least six Boone & Crockett bucks, and they keep turning up, especially from south Georgia. Huey’s Taxidermy in Cordele ended its big-buck contest Feb. 9, and three B&C bucks…
Georgia’s bag limit for firearms deer season is about to increase by 60% for the 1991 season. In their continued effort to reduce the state’s deer population from the current level of approximately 1.25 million deer down to 1 million deer, the Game Management Section is proposing to increase the firearms bag limit from three…
December 13 was a bad luck day for three Taylor County poachers who picked one of the worst places in Talbot County to go night hunting—a deputy sheriff’s front yard. According to Department of Natural Resources records, three three men in a pickup left Butler in Taylor County and drove across Highway 208 into Talbot…
Georgia hunters killed more than 160,000 antlered bucks last season, but not one of those deer has emerged as a Boone & Crockett class buck. This year, many reports say the harvest is down from last year, but already there’s been a record number of Pope & Young bucks killed and now the second buck…
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