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Georgia’s deer season rating sees yet another uptick from hunters rating their seasons at “Excellent.” While the percentage of happier hunters rises less than 1 percent, it does bring the season total of those rating their seasons as Excellent to 25.7%. This is an all-time record since GON began conducting the survey more than two…
Jeff Phillips, of Cumming, had a weird occurrence happen to him on his 350-acre hunting club in Taylor County during the 2013-14 hunting season. “It was in November, and I was down for a rut hunt,” said Jeff. “That morning I killed an 8-point that we had 100 pictures of, and I got him to…
That morning I had hunted a ladder stand nearby on private property. I got down around 11 a.m. and decided to do some scouting of a nearby creek bottom on the corps land. I crossed onto the corps and made my way down the ridge to the creek bottom. As soon as I got the creek…
A hunting angel. Do you have one? You may and never realize that you do. A hunting angel is that special person from your past who you talk to when you are in your deer stand. Or perhaps you are on the lake, and you aren’t sure which color topwater you should be using, so…
It wasn’t the biggest deer I had ever seen. It wasn’t even close. But the regret of missing my shot opportunity haunted me and grew more painful as time went on. When the 2018 deer season came to an end, I still had two buck tags unused. It was the first season in a long…
Jennifer Fields has done what most hunters will never do after she killed a buck with baseball-bat bases that measured 7 5/8 inches. The 7 1/2-year-old 10-pointer was taken in Macon County on Nov. 15 and weighed 240 pounds. “I am still in shock that I shot his deer, a true deer of a lifetime,”…
By Austin Michel My buddy Parker and I went down to Hannahatchee Creek WMA on the weekend of Christmas to hunt the feral hogs there. We figured that most hunters would be home during the holidays. Thankfully we were right. Leaving early on Sunday the 24th, we got to Hannahatchee at around 9 a.m. Shortly…
Woody Rogers liked to hunt with rattling horns. On Nov. 23, 1993, the then 29-year-old tucked his antlers into his fanny pack and went hunting in Butts County. He came to a steep-banked erosion ditch that was 8 feet deep. As Woody attempted to cross the ditch, his feet slipped and shot out from under…
By Kevin Yarbrough Like many of us, I grew up hunting and fishing with my dad and granddad. My dad was a life-long deer hunter. He killed many big bucks, but his biggest was a huge buck in Troup County on Nov. 19, 1970. I wasn’t born until 1978, but ironically, I invited my dad…
As the pages of GON attest, plenty of fantastic Georgia bucks were killed this season. However, our Hunt Advisor reports are mixed, with many seeing less deer movement and rut action during daylight hours this season. How was your deer season? Please don’t forget to respond to your Survey Monkey email from GON, or if…
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