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Hunting

Heard County Doe Had Big Velvet, 5-Point Rack

Jake Buchanan sent several photos of a big-racked deer he killed in Heard County. Jake also sent a picture of the deer’s private parts, which were most certainly all female. “I was hunting in Heard County and killed a 5-point doe still in velvet on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019 on private property,” Jake said. “It…

Hunting Deaths A Reminder To Be Careful When Doing Late-Season Deer Drives

On Jan. 2, South Carolina DNR released a statement on Twitter stating that two hunters had succumbed to hunting injuries. As if the news wasn’t sad enough, the two victims were 9-year-old Lauren Drawdy and her 30-year-old dad Kim Drawdy. According to WCBD News 2 in Charleston, Lauren, her daddy and two other hunters were participating…

Conservation Law Enforcement Corner – January 2020

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 resources from game and fish law violators. A tip about someone hunting without permission resulted in warrants, but when officers went to arrest the man a month…

Deer Hunter’s Moment Of Truth Ends With First Three Deer

Take it from a guy who’s been around a number of kids from different backgrounds over the years. Not every young person is cut from a mold that gives them the desire to shoot a deer. That doesn’t mean anything other than it’s just not their thing. Roger Cosby, of Nicholson, found himself wondering if his…

Solo Sit, Big 11-Point For Teen, Special Moment For Entire Family

By Chad Bilotti God is good! We had pictures of this buck since June, but they were all at night. We stopped feeding the first week of December where we had all the pictures in hopes the buck would move to our back field where we had another feed station. After checking cameras, this buck…

Dream Buck Poached, As I Watch

I took the biggest buck of my life the third week of November this season. I wish I could tell you the story of how I’ve been scouting this buck for years. How I learned his patterns and tendencies, about how then one late afternoon I saw my window of opportunity and seized it. But…

Backyard Suburban Bruiser, Lost And Found

Tom Hunt has been a friend of GON for about as long as there’s been a GON. He’s appeared in the magazine quite a few times with big bucks, going back to the days when he was a key member of the TMI club in Talbot County. TMI stood for Trophy Management Inc., a tract…

Big Bucks On Small Food Plots

Producing big bucks on small tracts of land is a rewarding process. On this particular 136-acre tract of land in Jefferson County, producing a monster whitetail buck turned out to be extremely rewarding. I have been managing this piece of property, along with several other small tracts of land for Woods-N-Water services, for a little…

Teen Discovers Worth County Bucks Locked Together, One Still Alive

Haden High, 17, of Camilla, had a moment on Dec. 8 while in the Worth County deer woods that he’ll probably never have again, and certainly one won’t soon forget. Haden came across two bucks with their antlers locked together, and one of them was still alive. “It was an ordinary day,” said Haden. “I…

200-Inch Southwest Georgia 17-Pointer

A monster Georgia buck has been killed, a 17-pointer with crazy thick mass and tines that look more like tree branches than antler points—including one growing out of its cheek right behind its eye. Clay Crawford has known about this buck since 2017 when he started getting trail-camera photos of the deer on the Early…

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