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The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) is pleased to recognize the Georgia DNR Wildlife Resources Division as its 2019 Agency of the Year. “Agencies that received our award in the past boast a record of innovative and progressive deer management, initiating positive change through regulation and hunter involvement,” said Matt Ross, QDMA’s Assistant Director of…
Having a close relationship with a wild animal is not an experience many people get to have. Gene Gilbert, of Jefferson, is one such individual who watched a whitetail doe mature through her entire life, which spanned nearly 20 years. The deer was born in mid June 1999, but a few short days after she…
Hunters saw a few surprises when the proposed hunting regulations for the 2019-2020 and the 2020-2021 seasons were first unveiled on March 28. There were numerous changes proposed, including additions and reductions to firearms either-sex deer hunting days in north Georgia, a shift of the one-day central Georgia bear hunt from January to December, and…
Effingham County: On Nov. 28, 2017, game warden Jordan Crawford received a call from Effingham County Deputy David Cribbs about possible illegal hunting taking place off Lee Road. The deputy saw someone shining a light near the back of a cotton field, and then a truck driving in the field. When the vehicle exited the…
In late September 2015, I found a place to hunt only 350 yards from a main road in Walker County where I would also park my truck. I had no cell phone connection the first day when I placed my lock-on tree stand 25 feet up in the tree. I thought to myself that it…
Last fall, next door to my family’s hunting land in Wayne County, some of our neighbors noticed a buck behaving strangely. He was running in circles in a pecan orchard in broad daylight, in the backyard of a home. Corky Thrower, Key Roberson and Edwin Tyre, all deer hunters, approached the buck cautiously and filmed…
Jason Gardner, of McDonough, has put his name on top of GON‘s statewide crossbow rankings list by killing a Henry County 23-pointer that grossed 194 3/8 inches and netted 186 5/8. Jason took the deer in his mom’s backyard in McDonough. “The first picture we got was June 18, 2018. It showed up in full…
On Feb. 10, Charlie Johnson, of Atlanta, discovered two deer, a 9-pointer and 7-pointer, that had locked up in a fight and died with their antlers stuck together. That afternoon, Charlie set out to do a little shed hunting on his family’s private property in Greene County. During the course of his walk, he checked…
By Elaine Gowan It was a day when the morning started off with a heavy fog mist, and my husband and I were invited to go deer hunting that afternoon on private land by a friend of ours. I contemplated whether I really wanted to take the chance of getting wet and cold. I almost…
For the first time since the 2001-2002 hunting season, more Georgia deer hunters ranked their deer seasons as “Excellent” versus “Poor.” Of the 1,653 ballots returned to GON, 21.6 percent of respondents ranked their deer season as “Excellent,” which is the highest percentage of excellent rankings GON has on record since the 2003-04 deer hunting…
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