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Hunting
By Hannah Baxter Many people call themselves hunters, but anyone who knew Terry Baxter knew he was the real deal. His love of hunting and the outdoors stretched far beyond a hobby, it was his way of life. Terry, my father-in-law, had hunted since he was a little boy. Naturally, when Terry became a dad,…
The below short story is about a 10-year-old girl named Anna Grace Scarborough who shot a 10-pointer in Johnson County on Oct. 24 in loving memory of her late Papa. From The Scarborough Family Anna Grace lost her Papa, Johnny Scarborough, back in February of this year. Her and her Papa shared the passion of hunting…
Debra Durden Sloan cooks a mean pound cake. I know, because I’ve wolfed down a few. In fact, she procures her 100-acre deer lease not with dollars, but “with a couple of pound cakes every year.” Since July, the Americus resident had been watching a certain 12-point buck on that Sumter County property, photos from…
Scott Owens hesitates to say that it was a buck that haunted his every thought, but the St. Simons Island boat captain admits that he has never hunted so hard for a fish or a deer. “I went to bed thinking about this deer and I woke up in the mornings thinking about this deer,”…
After suffering a horrendous fall out of a tree during the 2020-2021 hunting season, Willie Ware didn’t think he’d ever hunt again. However, a year later, the Appling sportsman downed his largest buck ever. “My ability to turn my neck is very limited because when I fell out of the deer stand, I broke my…
It’s a good thing to have a girlfriend who supports your bowhunting obsession. It’s even better when she’ll go bowhunting with you. It’s the best thing when she kills a possible Pope & Young buck the same month as you. That’s the fortune of Blake Clifton, of Monroe. He has hunted since his early teens…
As all archery hunters know, being successful requires meticulous planning, patience and excellent arrow placement. Of course, having no set plan, being rushed and getting lucky sometimes works, too. Macon’s Jonathan Ward recently took a big-bodied 11-point with his crossbow that he figures will score in the 145- to 150-inch range. He said he took…
It’ll be a bit noisier Saturday morning in the Georgia deer woods compared to the previous four weeks as the primitive-weapons and youth-only firearms deer seasons begin. This concurrent season will last from Oct. 9-15, and during that time youth under 16 years of age may hunt deer with any legal deer firearm. These hunting…
Adam Lomax, of Cumming, is thrilled that he’s got a really good contender for Week 3 in GON’s Truck-Buck contest. His DeKalb County 13-point, typical-framed buck has more than 160 inches of antler. Just this year Adam received permission to hunt a new piece of land in Dekalb County. He immediately put out trail cameras…
When Joseph Smith and his dad Bryan Smith, both of Cordele, first started getting pictures of a large 10-pointer on their Dooly County lease late this summer, they were hopeful that somehow, someway their paths would cross with the buck. “He showed up on daddy’s camera first, and since it was set to video mode,…
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