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The Conservation LE Corner is designed to highlight the efforts of Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division (LED) officers who, among their many duties, protect Georgia’s wildlife, sportsmen and natural resources from game-law violators. If you live in rural Georgia or spend time in a hunt camp during the fall and winter, there are few parts…
The Atlanta suburbs strike again. Another bow-buck with a rack so wide and so tall that it just doesn’t seem possible deer get this big, much less in areas where ribbons and patches of woods are a tiny fraction of the landscape, where what little habitat there is gets squeezed and cut off more every…
“It’s a good one.” In the understatement of the season, that’s how Philip Holt began the conversation when he got a call from GON about an amazing buck he killed yesterday, Nov. 25, in Houston County. Philip was hunting with a crossbow on a small tract of land in the city limits of Centerville when…
Raise your hand if this sounds familiar… You pull up to the deer feeder, grab the bag of corn and dump it in, throw the empty bag in the bed of the truck, and then head for home. At the house, you go to grab the trash out of the bed of the truck,…
An investigation is still ongoing into a tragic incident where a Glynn County teenager was shot and killed by a hunting companion who mistook him for a deer. Bobby Lane, 17, had gone deer hunting in woods off Myers Hill Road in Brunswick when he was shot by another hunter who had gone to the…
Abbie Westra downed an impressive Houston County 8-point buck last week, and it was her hand-written story of taking the buck that was also impressive to the editors when her big-buck contest entry cycled through the GON office. The 15-year-old from Warner Robins entered her 8-point Houston County buck the old-fashioned way. Instead of using…
A head-turner of a buck was taken from Oconee National Forest on Saturday, Nov. 2 by Tony Jones, of Locust Grove. Although an estimated gross score isn’t known, arguably the most impressive feature of the Jasper County buck is its 22-inch inside spread. Tony hunts from a ground blind, and it was after daylight when…
Today is Aidan Proctor’s 12th birthday. When he and his twin sister were born at 25 weeks and weighed less than 2 pounds, Aidan wasn’t expect to see his fifth day. “He’s not supposed to be here. Doctors gave him zero percent chance,” said Aidan’s father, Donnie Proctor. The affects of his premature birth on…
The excitement of having a mature, majestic whitetail buck at close range is hard to describe to those who’ve never experienced it. Want to ramp up that adrenaline rush? Try having a big buck 15 yards away while you’re hunting OTG — on the ground. Hunting on the ground is near and dear to…
We hear all too often how hunter numbers are on the decline. We hear about kids these days who have so many distractions and options for how to spend their time. We hear that hunting doesn’t hold the attraction it once did to youngsters. We’re going to say that’s certainly not the case for the…
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