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Week 17: Warren Hershberger, 143 7/8 typical bow-kill County: Hart Date: Jan. 8, 2020 “I grew up in an outdoor family,” said Week 17 winner Warren Hershberger, 36, of Hartwell. “My brother started bowhunting about 15 years ago and convinced me to try it, and ever since I’ve been hooked. I’ve hunted…
Week 16: Mark Stanley, 142 5/8 typical County: Whitfield Date: Dec. 28 Mark Stanley is 53 and lives in Dalton. “I have hunted our family farm since I could hold a gun,” Mark said. “It was only small game up until the mid to late 90s, and then we started to get a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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