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Hunting
A daddy-daughter bond is an extraordinary thing, especially when that bondage takes place through hunting and the outdoors. Hadleigh Bruce, 11, of Newborn, had a moment with her daddy William on Sept. 15 that will indeed thicken their bond as she killed her biggest buck to date with him—a 142-inch Jasper County 14-pointer—with a crossbow.…
More thoughts from the middle-school football bleachers. Have you ever seen those fanatical parents on the sidelines, the ones who would make a child-development professor cringe? I’ve watched parents holler at their kids through four very long quarters of play… as in every single play. I never quite figured out if they didn’t trust the…
Most sportsmen eagerly anticipate opening day of a new hunting season. One Georgia man didn’t even know if he would see opening day this year but made the most of it when it did arrive by taking a huge buck. Zak Avery, a 39-year-old financial advisor from Pine Mountain, discovered he had a failing liver…
It’s zero surprise to most Georgia hunters that Worth County makes the headlines with a giant buck. This one was taken by bowhunter Cam Williams, of Cordele. The 13-pointer was called Splits and was gross scored in the mid 180s. Cam loves it when a plan comes together. In February 2021, he found a huge…
Brian Brooks lives on 10 acres in Paulding County. He’s in a club only 3 miles down the road, but he still hunts his property and runs cameras on it. He didn’t have any photos of any big bucks on his property, but his neighbor, Lloyd Cline, did have several good bucks on his cameras. However,…
Benny Overholt had seen this buck on his Macon County farm for several years, and the deer was normal until last season when it didn’t shed its velvet and didn’t drop its antlers after the season. Fast forward to this season, and that velvet rack just kept growing… and growing! “Having seen this buck of…
Landon Parks is fairly new to deer hunting, but he got off to an excellent start when he dropped a record-book caliber bow-buck in Gwinnett County on a tract of private land. Landon’s dad, Michael, helped him get fired up by giving him a new Bowtech bow for his 21st birthday, and his uncle, Jason…
Most sportsmen wait months for hunting season to open, anticipating many days afield in pursuit of their passion. For one Georgia man, his buck hunting ended on opening weekend. On consecutive days, Jake Wesley, an air traffic controller from Locust Grove, arrowed his allotted two-buck season limit while hunting in DeKalb County. Both bucks will…
Bailey Combs, of Smryna, took down a Cherokee County Pope & Young bruiser opening morning that should gross around 160. Bailey started hunting suburban areas during his time as a pitcher for Georgia Tech’s baseball team. “During my college days, I didn’t have time to drive three hours to hunt someone’s farm, so I started…
On his first hunt on my newly purchased farm, Connor Boney had an OTG ground-blind encounter with a 160-inch buck they named Trooper. “I had been watching and scouting this particular bachelor group all summer,” Connor said. “He stepped out with his same group and after about 30 minutes. He presented me with a 33-yard…
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