Advertisement
News
A deer hunter from Cumming, who wishes to remain anonymous, helped law enforcement officers catch a man after equipment and hunting supplies began to disappear from his Wilkes County hunting camp early in 2018. “I was really upset. I had felt like my rights had been violated,” said the hunter. After things went missing, and…
By Alton Powell The story on my 1982 buck from Fannin County on Cohutta WMA… my wife and I drove our pickup camper up there and hunted early morning. The buck came along about 9.45 on a steep hilltop where he had scraped in several places. We were both up separate trees about 150 yards…
Tom Cooper was living in Lilburn and was 33 years old when a chance happening in the Georgia deer woods changed his life forever. On the morning of Nov. 24, 1974, he set out alone in the cold darkness, driving toward public land for a typical day in the woods. As an avid deer hunter,…
A late season hunt for Brandon Hunnicutt, of Clayton, will likely land him in the No. 1 spot for the best buck ever recorded from Rabun County, located in the mountains in the extreme northeast corner of Georgia. Brandon killed a 12-pointer on Dec. 31 that is expected to gross 176 inches. After side-to-side deductions and…
GON has recently reported that Georgia game wardens are now using all kinds of social media to look for game-related violations. However, a new form of social media from an Oklahoma game warden is one we haven’t heard yet. According to the Oklahoma Game Wardens Facebook page, Game Warden Cannon Harrison was on a dating app…
Often times over the years I have heard people talk negatively about having the timber cut on their hunting land. You hear things like, “I have to go pull all of my stands.” “There goes all the work in the food plots.” “Every deer on the place will be run off.” Yes, you need to…
Hopefully you’ve put some venison in the freezer, and maybe there’s a buck at the taxidermist. Whether you were successful in the deer woods this season or not, certainly some memories were made during the time you spent in the woods. The January issue of GON means it’s time Rate Your Deer Season, and it’s…
On the morning of Oct. 28, Karl VanVoorhis, of Harlem, killed two mature, heavy-racked bucks on Fort Gordon in Richmond County about 10 minutes apart. “I got set up 45 minutes before shooting light. It’s a great morning, and everything is perfect,” said Karl. “About 15 minutes after sunrise, I hear two bucks fighting. They…
By Mike Simmons A few friends of mine and I got selected for this year’s B.F. Grant WMA quota hunt in Putnam County from Nov. 1-3. We had attended this hunt two years ago, and although we did not see very many deer during that hunt due to the prevailing drought and uncharacteristically hot weather,…
On Dec. 6, David Berry Jr., of Brookline, Missouri, was told by a judge that he’ll be forced to watch Walt Disney’s Bambi movie from his jail cell once a month for the next year. Berry pled guilty to taking wildlife illegally and is just one of a number of others recently charged with wildlife…
Advertisement