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By Daniel Krause It all started on Sept. 17, 2019. One Friday evening while checking my trail-camera pictures on an 88-acre piece of private land in Polk County, I was excited to see a monster buck standing with light beaming from his rack like a halo on an angel. I was in shock. In all…
Easton Withrow, 10, of Cleveland, collected a $3,000 shopping spree at Adventure Outdoors after winning GON’s Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out on Sept. 26 in Madison. The Shoot-Out had originally been planned for July at the Outdoor Blast, but hosting site restrictions didn’t allow GON to hold its annual hunting show. In addition, Easton won a…
It wasn’t exactly a packed house of roaring fans when Luke Rountree, of Adel, won September’s Truck-Buck Shoot-Out before driving back to Cook County in a brand-new Chevy pickup from John Megel Chevy in Dawsonville. Ask Luke if he cares. Pretty sure he was happy just the same. Due to COVID concerns from the Infinite…
The timing of the rut peak gets lots of attention from deer hunters, but the pre-rut cruising phase may just be the best time to get on a more predictable plan to kill a mature buck. That exact scenario was mentioned by several of GON’s Hunt Advisors this month. Here are their reports through the…
I’ve always said that when it’s your time, it’s your time. Hunting personality Travis “T-Bone” Turner, of Hogansville, has struck again. His latest Georgia giant whitetail grosses 186 and was killed with a muzzleloader on the evening of Oct. 11. Just three weeks ago GON reported that Travis shot a 160-inch 10-pointer with his bow.…
When I first called Aaron Harrison, excited to get a clear grasp on his experience with the massive Harris County buck he named “Showtime,” he picked up on the fourth or fifth ring in a whisper. The man was up in the deer stand, back at it again! We did our introductions, and I asked…
The County-by-County rankings that appear in the magazine each year include the Top-10 bucks ever recorded from each of Georgia’s 159 counties. The rankings were first published in 1994. But the process began in 1991 by compiling official scores from old big-buck contests, getting scores sheets from certified measurers, and by crisscrossing the state to…
With cooler than normal temperatures and hunters apparently getting serious about putting some venison in the freezer, it’s been a productive four weeks of archery season for Georgia deer hunters. In GON’s Truck-Buck contest, hunters started out the season by recording the best first week of bow season in 32 years of the contest. Then…
Matt Rivers, of Newnan, killed a gnarly looking 16-point buck with his bow in Lamar County on Oct. 3. “We don’t have any idea how to score him,” said Matt. “I’ve had people tell me 180, 190, 200.” Matt is talking about gross inches of antler, but when it comes to a net score, there’s…
I’ve heard some say that a coyote won’t mess with a healthy, big-bodied buck. That’s might true for about 99% of coyotes, but then there’s that 1%… The below series of 11 trail-camera photos of a Talbot County coyote getting after a buck on the afternoon of Sept. 1. The photos were sent in by…
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