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My 9-year-old son Charlie has had some very good luck hunting so far. He was able to tag out on bucks last year. Those were his first two deer ever. This year he had an ancient buck that he wanted to kill. The buck didn’t have the best rack, and I told Charlie after he…
By Blake Hamby My wife and I bought 26.5 acres of raw, grown-up, old hunting club land to eventually build our house on. With mostly planted pines with tons of undergrowth, we began cleaning and clearing with the dream of one day living there and having a place my boys could grow up on. Fast…
Ten-year-old Simon Hart had an incredible pair of hunts in Sumter County over Thanksgiving week. On an afternoon hunt, he killed a white deer and followed it up with a beautiful 10-point the very next morning. The two hunts took place at his family’s farm. Simon, an avid reader of GON and lover of the…
Slow Cooked Cajun Venison Hindquarter Here’s a great recipe for your hindquarter roasts that will produce a fantastic venison meal and save lots of time cutting those roasts down and running a grinder. • 1 hindquarter deboned • Louisiana Cajun seasoning • Vegetable Oil • McCormick Au jus Gravy Seasoning (1-oz. dry pack) • Hidden…
Deer season isn’t quite over, especially if you hunt in one of the counties with the extended archery-only hunting until Jan. 31. A food plot or feeder where the deer haven’t been pressured is tough to beat for some late-season freezer meat. And if you don’t have a food source to hunt, thick planted pines,…
VOTES, which stands for Voice Of The Educated Sportsman, is a GON survey that has been around for more than two decades. A question on the survey each and every year is Rate Your Deer Season, which gives us county-specific ratings that can be compared to historical trends. We’d like to hear how your deer…
By Don Cheek I am 73 years old now and I’ve been a hunter since I was 8 years old, but I had the hunting thrill of a lifetime on Nov. 21, 2021. My regular hunting partner of more than 40 years, John Patton, and I had been seeing a massive-racked buck that looked to…
On Dec. 9, Jeremy Barnes managed to take down a massive 19-point Hart County buck, but the road to success was anything but easy. “Me and my good buddy Kevin Jordan had been hunting the buck on a 30-acre Hart County property that Kevin’s boss owns that he was generous enough to let us hunt,…
Jeff Reynolds, of Snellville, sent some trail-cam pictures of an unfortunate buck in Monroe County. Jeff emailed Dr. Gino D’Angelo, Assistant Professor of Deer Ecology and Management at UGA about the buck’s condition. Dr. G’s response: “I would not enjoy being that deer, but he seems to be faring pretty well considering his burden. My…
If you hunt northeast Georgia, the chances of killing your target buck go way down by mid December. If you’re hunting with a bow, those chances dwindle much more. Kyle Bona, of Royston, beat the odds with a 140-class Franklin County 10-pointer taken on Sunday, Dec. 18. The deer was certainly a target buck that…
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