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204-Inch Bow-Buck Returned To 17-Year-Old Hunter

The saga of a massive Worth County buck taken with a bow by a 17-year-old hunter, later confiscated by DNR because the teen didn’t have a valid hunting license, has concluded with the young hunter paying a fine and the rack being returned. “We paid the fine, and we got the horns,” said Jeff Paramore,…

Cohutta’s John Roy Brackett Passes

He was buried in his camo shirt and work overalls with a cigar in his pocket. If he’d had his way, they probably would have buried him with his 50-year-old Willys Jeep that still runs like a charm.  John Roy Brackett, of Cisco, well-known locally for his lifetime of hunting exploits, passed away quietly at…

100 Years At Thompson Pasture Hunting Club

As the memories begin to flow, so do a few tears; but like those recollections, they spring from joy.  Eighty-nine-year-old Dent Newton can’t hold them back, and that’s OK. The big crowd on hand to honor the oldest member of Georgia’s oldest deer-dogging club has nothing but respect for this gentleman—a word that fits him…

Macon County Deer Hunters Killed In Car Crash

What should have been another in a long history of great weekends at a 23-year Macon County hunting club turned tragic in a senseless instant. Two hunters returning to deer camp after eating lunch in Reynolds on Nov. 3 were killed in a head-on crash with a vehicle driven by another deer hunter.  Killed were…

A Hero’s Buck: Littlejohn’s Lamar County Giant

The oldest son on a family of four boys, Gary Littlejohn grew up in Lamar County, just outside of Barnesville, in the tiny community of Milner. “Dinky,” as he was known to his younger brothers and friends, spent many a happy boyhood day roaming the woods in and around his home.  According to his younger…

DeKalb County Bow-Kill Named Hulk Finally Taken

My grandfather has lived on a 10-acre tract of land for the past 40 years where my father pretty much learned how to hunt. My grandfather’s family friend has owned the neighboring property for the same amount of time, and it’s 11 acres. The neighboring property to my grandfather’s friend is a 80-acre tract that…

A First Buck To Remember

By Justin Lance Benton is my son who is 8 years old. He killed his first deer last season, a doe. Early this year during youth week he was able to bag another mature doe. Since that time, he has been determined to kill his first buck. We have hunted almost every weekend Saturday and…

Cellular Trail Cam Leads To 178-Inch Monroe County Bruiser

On Nov. 8, Mike Worley killed a 178-inch buck in Monroe County on a 700-acre family lease. What makes his story really interesting is that Mike says he owes the success of taking such a big deer to a new trail camera he purchased this year. “Me, my brother and my uncle have had this…

Hit Or Miss? Time Will Tell

I would like to start this post off with a little background information that I do hope to fully write about later on. This is my first year bowhunting and the first year that I am hunting alone. How I began bowhunting, let alone the reason I have my bow, deserves an article by itself,…

Georgia Mentorship Competition Awarding Three Guns

The Georgia Mentor Competition will once again give out three guns in an effort to encourage current hunters to get new hunters into the woods. The competition is spearheaded by the Georgia R3 program, which is a group working to reverse the current trend of declining hunter numbers. The competition will run through May 15,…

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