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Seventeen weekly winners and four hunters in our wildcard spots are looking forward to the chance to win a new truck. We are still planning and hoping to hold our Shoot-Out event Sunday, July 26 at the Ag-Pro GON Outdoor Blast. Of course if plans change because of COVID-19 restrictions, we will keep everyone updated…
Week 9: Philip Worley, 142 0/8 typical County: Wilcox Date: Nov. 11 It’s tough to make the Shoot-Out. So what are the odds of making the Shoot-Out two years in a row and getting in Week 9 with a deer that netted 142? Keep in mind that this year’s Week 8 second-place buck scored 158…
Week 8: Danny Robinson, 187 6/8 non-typical County: Monroe Date: Nov. 4 Danny Robinson starting hunting when he about 15 in upstate New York near the Canadian border. Now 67 years old and living in Forsyth, Danny said he’s always loved the outdoors, maybe too much. “I really worshipped the outdoors instead of worshipping the…
Public-Land Wildcard: Chase Hemphill, 137 4/8 Public Land: Chestatee WMA, Lumpkin Co. Date: Dec. 12 Chase Hemphill, 35, of Blairsville, is an outdoorsman through and through. “I have been hunting since I was a small child with teachings of my father, uncles and grandfather,” Chase said. “I live from deer season to fishing to turkey season…
Week 7: Sonny Abercrombie, 171 2/8 non-typical County: Crawford Date: Oct. 27 Sonny Abercrombie’s story, like for many sportsmen, begins back in childhood. “My father and grandfather had me in the woods when I was young. My grandfather was a beagle raising rabbit hunting man. I shot my first rabbit off my grandfather’s knee with…
Week 6: Cade Croft, 147 3/8 typical County: Harris Date: Oct. 21 The gun season scoring periods began with Week 6 of the contest, and from then on each week the highest-scoring buck earns the hunter a Browning deer rifle. On the Monday following opening weekend of gun season, 14-year-old Cade Croft was hunting over…
Week 5: Reid Diers, 139 3/8 typical County: Colquitt Date: Oct. 15 The fifth week of last deer season was the primitive-weapons week, which is now also the Youth week, where kids 15 and younger can use a modern rifle. The winner of this week was Reid Diers, of Norman Park, who earned a new…
Week 4: Kayla Pitts, 167 1/8 non-typical County: Houston Date: Oct. 11 GON has been around quite a while, long enough there’s lots of history in these pages. Take Kayla Pitts for example. She’s now 30, but many GON people still remember the August 2009 Truck-Buck Shoot-Out when a 19-year-old Kayla all but won a…
Week 3: Darrell Hudson, 147 0/8 typical County: Upson Date: Oct. 4 To know there’s a huge buck on your property, but you don’t hunt him for weeks because the wind is wrong— that takes resolve and patience many hunters just don’t possess. Darrell Hudson faced it last season. “I’ve been a longtime GON guy,”…
Week 2: Kevin Carnes, 140 7/8 typical County: Cobb Date: Sept. 22 Kevin Carnes, of Atlanta, already had some awesome suburban bucks to his credit before the 2019-2020 season, including a 2015 buck that netted 195 2/8 non-typical. That’s one of only eight Georgia bow-bucks to ever score high enough to qualify for the all-time…
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