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Hunting
Archery hunting has had a long journey. The earliest human civilizations hunted with primitive bows and stone points. We have since evolved tremendously to compound bows with mechanical broadheads, all the way to crossbows that can accurately shoot up to 100 yards. Yet, there is still a group of individuals who pursue hunting with traditional…
Included in these three pages are last year’s bowhunting stats from Georgia WMAs, PFAs, State Parks and VPAs. It’s impressive the number of places someone can take a bow or crossbow and get after a deer this month. Every September we publish last year’s WMA bowhunting stats as a service to our readers. The amount…
On Nov. 22, 2021, Arielle Hurst was hunting in Worth County on Nov. 22, 2021 when a super 10-pointer stepped out at 30 yards. “I shot, the buck jumped, kicked and nearly hit the ground before running into the edge of the woods,” said Arielle. Her long-time boyfriend’s grandfather, Van ‘Big G’ Powell, heard the…
GON just hosted the 2022 Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out on July 29 during the Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast (see the results). We watched another young hunter compete and win a BB gun shooting contest to earn a $3,000 shopping spree at Adventure Outdoors and a weekend hunt at Woods-N-Water Outfitters. Thanks to our great sponsors, another…
Each time a Truck-Buck winner drives out of the Shoot-Out Arena in a brand new pick-up truck it is special. This year’s drive was more than a quarter century in the making. Twenty-seven years to be exact. Wendell Duncan’s road to winning it all began way back at the beginning of the 1994 Georgia deer…
Wyatt Coleman, 16, of Gay, collected a $3,000 shopping spree from Adventure Outdoors after winning GON’s Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out on July 29 at GON’s Outdoor Blast. In addition, Wyatt won a dream deer and hog hunting trip with Woods-N-Water outfitters in Wilkinson County. Wyatt and a parent get to stay at a remote lodge, enjoy some fun hunting and have…
Rivers Cathey has taken five of the 10 largest bow bucks ever taken in Hart County, including two that qualified for the Pope & Young record buck. All came from the family’s 350-acre farm in Hartwell. You’re probably assuming that the farm has a magnificent wildlife management program, and you’d be right, but it’s not…
Once again GON has looked at all the hunt data from public lands and crunched them into easy-to-read tables and charts. In this year’s WMA Special, we have deer hunting stats on 91 pieces of public-land dirt. Top quota and non-quota hunts from last year are listed below. Jump in and do your research as…
Deadlines are nearing to participate in a WRD youth hunt. First up is an Aug. 15 deadline to put your kid on a dove field. Of the 11 quota dove hunts that were offered for kids last season, eight of them required no priority points for a spot. Go to georgiawildlife.com/hunting/quota to see which hunts…
By Travis Jackson I had been watching a buck for the past two years, having him pop up on camera on several properties where I hunt that are all relatively close to one other. I never had him show up consistently until the summer of 2020 when he started to be a frequent visitor to…
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