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Heads up if you’ve purchased a new airbow—they aren’t legal in archery-only counties. Guns and bows that use compressed air to fire bullets and arrows is a newer technology for hunting that’s growing in popularity. Georgia legislators passed a new law last spring making these weapons legal for hunting in Georgia. However, the Georgia law…
Dylan Kirkley, of Covington, has killed a deer that would make any midwestern hunter proud. His Newton County 17-pointer, only the second buck he’s ever killed, grossed 183 inches. “This is the second year we had him on camera,” said Dylan. “He showed back up in July (2019), and then he just disappeared for like…
Be warned, some of y’all ain’t gonna like this one, but what I’m gonna say needs to be said. What in the name of Fred Bear has happened to the hunting community? As I scroll through Facebook looking at deer pics enjoying everyone’s success, one trend is becoming more and more common, and it’s not a…
The sounds of rifles and muzzleloaders will echo through the Georgia deer woods beginning at daylight this Saturday morning, Oct. 12. The Georgia primitive-weapons deer season opens Oct. 12, and Oct. 12-18 is also the special week for youth deer hunters when kids 15 and younger can hunt deer with modern firearms. The exception is…
Dave McElwee, of Cedartown, captured a video of two deer standing on their back legs and duking it out in a boxing match for nearly 2 1/2 minutes straight. The video was captured in Polk County on Sept. 22. “I had just gotten home from playing golf and was sitting in my vehicle in the…
Heard County was once known throughout Georgia as a haven for deer hunting. After consistently producing some of the most impressive bucks in the state from the late 1980s through the 1990s, the county garnered a reputation as a top destination for both quality and quantity of deer. As a child in the late 1990s,…
It’s no secret that the rut is the best time to have an encounter with that old buck you have had your eyes on all summer. It’s seemingly the only time of year he really lets his guard down by chasing does all over creation in an attempt to spread his genes. To figure out…
Georgia hunters who got to the woods for opening morning of bow season were greeted with an unseasonable cool morning. Well, that was just a tease. Since then it’s been brutally hot and dry. Food plot seed that went in the ground is feeding the crows unless you were lucky to get pop-up thunderstorms, one…
The Top-4 Georgia counties for big bucks remained the same as last season. Worth County is still No. 1 based on the big bucks it has produced in the past 10 years, followed by Lee, Dougherty and Macon counties. There was some movement for the next grouping. Pulaski County came in at No. 5 in…
Thomas Pulliam, of Sandersville, has the new No. 1 bow buck ever taken from Washington County. His 10-pointer was arrowed Dec. 8, 2018 and netted 148 1/8 inches. We’re not sure exactly how it happened, but Thomas’ new county record was left out of GON’s Bow-Buck County Rankings and Georgia’s Best Bow Bucks lists…
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