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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…
We’ve said it a thousand times since GON started in 1987: Weird things happen in the woods. The latest crazy story that rolled into our [email protected] email box was several photos of a Cobb County buck with what appears to be a pumpkin stuck on its head. GON subscriber Phil Crane, of Powder Springs, was…
Garrett Saxon was having a pretty good start to September. He had already seen two large shooter bucks on one of his hunting spots in Madison County, and he had also just been married on the second Saturday of archery season. The only thing that could possibly make the month any better was killing one…
Hunting personality Travis “T-Bone” Turner, of Hogansville, is the latest Georgia hunter to knock down a Pope & Young class buck in what is looking to be a stellar year for Georgia archers. Although Travis spends much of his hunting season traveling the country, he cut his teeth in the Georgia woods of Troup County.…
Deer season is cranking up, and the chaos of the rut is almost here, at least for many parts of Georgia. One of the glories of this great state is the fact that if you wanted to, you could “chase the rut,” and with enough free time, you could theoretically be hunting rutting whitetails from…
One of the most common debates among deer hunters is the stage of the rut occurring at a given point of the season. It’s not uncommon for one hunter to proclaim the rut is in full swing, while another contends it hasn’t yet begun, or even that it’s already over. Fact is, rut timing can…
The numbers have been crunched, and the Top-3 counties in Georgia for big-buck production remain the same—Worth, Lee and Dougherty are the best of the best. The No. 4 and 5 counties swapped spots, with Fulton edging past Macon County as the No. 4 ranked county in Georgia for big bucks recorded in the past…
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