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Hunting
Deer love muscadines, but this preferred food source doesn’t last long. The wild grapes are ripening early and already falling in many areas, and with the season opening a week later this year, muscadines may be played out by opening weekend. The way the calendar falls this year, bow season doesn’t open until Sept. 14.…
A buddy killed a nice buck last season and would have won a $1,200 Browning deer rifle and a chance to shoot for a new truck. One problem, he didn’t have a GON membership. Why’d he drop his subscription? “Too many fishing articles when it wasn’t hunting season…” I just shook my head and reminded…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set the deer hunting dates for the 2019 season at the corps’ Bussey Point Management Area. Bussey Point is a 2,545-acre peninsula located in Lincoln County on Clarks Hill Lake (J. Storm Thurmond Reservoir). All hunts are limited to 100 hunters per day. Hunters are registered on a…
I came through a very traditional path of progression when it comes to hunting, looking back on it I almost didn’t have a choice. My dad hunted, and therefore I hunted (and loved every minute of it). Sharing the woods with my family are some of my fondest memories from childhood, but being indoctrinated at…
John Callaway estimates he had more than 500 trail-camera pictures of a handsome 9-pointer he was hunting last season. Problem was, they were all at night. “He was coming in twice each night and working scrapes,” John said. Well, we obviously can’t hunt at night, so it creates a tough challenge to get a buck…
Early results from an ongoing research study looking into the drastic decline in deer harvest and hunter success in the north Georgia mountains doesn’t bode well for fawn survival. Only three of 13 fawns tracked by researchers at the Chattahoochee National Forest survived to 4 months. According to a presentation at the Southeast Deer Study…
After several Georgia deer seasons in a row that fell below our state’s lofty standards for producing top-end, high-scoring bucks, last year was the rebound season we had been expecting. There were four Booners, bucks that scored high enough to make Boone & Crockett’s all-time record book. That’s the second-best year in the past 20…
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. McDuffie County: Some people can’t seem to resist the urge to post on social media, even when it can get…
The big news concerning all WMA youth hunts for this season is that WRD lowered the maximum age at which a Georgia hunter is now considered a Youth and can participate in quota and non-quota youth hunting opportunities. The new maximum age for a Youth is now 16 years old; it used to be 17.…
Lee Ellis is a name most Georgia hunters recognize. He’s killed some of the best Georgia bucks ever while bowhunting Atlanta’s tiny woodlots and pockets of habitat surrounded by neighborhoods and busy streets. Some of these Atlanta bucks grow stupid huge. This year was the third time Lee won a week of GON’s Truck-Buck Contest…
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