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Let’s face it, deer hunters love antlers. This is certainly not a new phenomenon as evidenced by the numerous paintings, etchings and rituals involving deer in nearly every culture where deer and humans have coexisted throughout the millennia. Not only were deer antlers used as weapons, tools and adornment, they were revered for their fascinating…

Truck-Buck 2019-20: Week 15 Winner David Stevens

Week 15: David Stevens, 140 5/8 typical County: Screven        Date: Dec. 27 David Stevens started hunting when he was 10 years old in Alabama, and he took his first buck at 11. He moved to coastal Georgia when he was 12. He has killed many mature coastal deer with both a bow…

Truck-Buck 2019-20: Week 14 Winner, Matt Overholt

Week 14: Matt Overholt, 143 6/8 typical County: Macon        Date: Dec. 20 “I enjoy the outdoors, especially hunting whitetail. I’ve been hunting since I was 10 years old,” said Week 14 winner, Matt Overholt, who is just 18 and lives near Marshallville in Macon County. When you live with the deer, there…

Truck-Buck 2019-20: Ladies Wildcard Winner Juli McCaskill

Ladies Wildcard: Juli McCaskill, 146 6/8 typical County: Turner Date: Nov. 2, Week 8 With a buck that netted 146 6/8, Juli McCaskill, of Statesboro, came in fifth place during a very tough Week 8 in last season’s Truck-Buck contest. That score is high enough to win most weeks, and it was high enough to earn…

Truck-Buck 2019-20: Week 13 Winner, Clay Crawford

Week 13: Clay Crawford, 183 1/8 non-typical County: Early      Date: Dec. 12 Clay Crawford, of Blakley, had known about a huge buck with a very unusual rack since 2017 when he started getting trail-camera photos of the deer on the Early County family farm he hunts. Clay said the buck stayed close in…

Truck-Buck 2019-20: Week 12 Winner, Luke Rountree

Week 12: Luke Rountree, 144 5/8 typical County: Cook            Date: Dec. 2 Cook County was throwing out some stellar bucks last season. In addition to David Wall’s Week 11 buck that set a record as the best non-typical ever from Cook, there was also a new No. 1 buck of…

Truck-Buck 2019-20: Runner-Up Wildcard Winner, Cody Dennard

Runner-Up Wildcard: Cody Dennard, 158 1/8 typical County: Houston         Date: Nov. 8, Week 8 Cody Dennard, 28, was born and raised in Perry and now lives just south in the small town of Elko. “I’ve been in the woods and on the water since I could walk,” Cody said. “Hunting deer, ducks, hogs,…

Truck-Buck 2019-20: Youth Wildcard Winner, Janie Funderburk

Youth Wildcard: Janie Funderburk, 140 2/8 typical County: Meriwether       Date: Nov. 28, Week 11 The Youth Wildcard is a spot in the annual Truck-Buck Shoot-Out for the highest-scoring buck entered by a hunter 15 years old or younger that doesn’t win a week outright. GON also conducts a separate contest just for kids called…

Truck-Buck 2019-20: Week 11 Winner, David Wall

Week 11: David Wall, 183 6/8 non-typical County: Cook      Date: Nov. 28 Last November, David Wall took the week of Thanksgiving off of work to get some good time in the deer woods. “I waited until the early morning of Monday the 25th to go and saw a few does and small bucks…

Truck-Buck 2019-20: Week 10 Winner, Dwayne Griffin

Week 10: Dwayne Griffin, 140 5/8 typical County: Colquitt     Date: Nov. 20 Back in 1992, a 30-year-old hunter from Moultrie killed a 150-inch buck in Colquitt County that earned him a truck in the Hilsman Deer Cooler contest, plus a spot in GON’s Truck-Buck Shoot-Out—at that time only the second Truck-Buck Shoot-Out ever.…

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