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If it weren’t for bowhunters killing some amazing bucks, last deer season in Georgia would have gone down as the worst season for big bucks since GON began compiling scores and data three decades ago. Eleven archery bucks made the prestigious Fab 40, which is GON’s annual presentation of our state’s best bucks from last…
I’m thankful for Charlie Killmaster, head deer guru for WRD, and all the Game Management region biologists and supervisors who keep up with WMA check-in and sign-in data. Without those numbers, which are also used to gather important information to help manage WMA deer herds, hunters would be left in the dark about which WMAs…
The clock on the dash read 12:33 a.m. He took a sip of his cold coffee, and it was just about as cold as the feeling he had about coming back to the old farm. He swore he’d never come home, but 10 years later, he was just 30 miles from his old family farm…
Prior to the 2017 Georgia deer season, David Herrington, of Cordele, had two unfulfilled deer hunting goals. One was to take a big non-typical whitetail, and the second was to place a deer in the record book. Remarkably, he accomplished both of those objectives last season, but not in the way he had planned. A…
Despite the seriousness and spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in some parts of the country, there remains another fatal deer disease that continues to wallop whitetails at least to some degree almost every late summer and early fall. This other disease primarily affects deer in the South, where whitetails develop some immunity to it,…
Isaac Weeks was going behind his Jackson County house on July 1 to put out a trail cam over some corn when he stumbled upon a surprise. “I hadn’t made it far down in the woods at all, and I saw the skull sitting there,” said Isaac. “I know that wasn’t where the deer died…
It was late January, 2016 as I stepped out of my truck and unloaded my Artic Cat 4-wheeler to head deep into the Wilkinson County river swamp in hopes of stalking a hog since deer season was out. I was given permission to hunt this piece of property that had just changed hands in a…
They say one of the hardest things to do in sports is to hit a 90 mph fastball. The equivalent in outdoor sports would be to kill a mature whitetail buck with a bow and arrow. As challenging and difficult as that is, bagging a trophy big enough to qualify for the bowhunting record books…
Twelve youth will be shooting BBs to see who wins a $3,000 shopping spree from Adventure Outdoors in the GON Youth Big-Buck contest Shoot-Out on Friday, July 27 at the Outdoor Blast. The winning youth will also win a deer and hog hunt from our good friends at Woods-N-Water in Wrightsville. All 12 of our…
By Ted Turner III I had not been free to hunt much over the last several years. I have a few photos of this buck from trail cams, but all of the photos came from after shooting hours. Even though the buck was nocturnal, at every free opportunity I had, I made my way to…
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