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Hunting
You’ve just settled in your stand. In a few moments the grayness of dawn will bring the woods to life. For a while, maybe since last season, you’ve been longing for this moment, this spot. Comfortably you await, and then you see it—a flashlight approaching. You flash back, but it comes nearer and nearer. Less…
For deer hunters who love trying to kill a deer with a stick and string or a crossbow bolt, there are certainly challenges, but there is also great opportunity. The first weeks of Georgia’s archery deer season often find big bucks still on a late summer feeding pattern, and unpressured does make putting some meat…
Back in 2013, as a 14-year-old boy, I had a passion and the determination to be able to harvest a whitetail deer with a bow and arrow. I worked my tail off all summer long to be able to buy a new Mathews bow in hopes of taking a Georgia whitetail. During the summer of…
Some folks obviously have more time on their hands than others. From that comes great things. A hunter told me about this clever recipe. I tried it, and it was incredible. He said it also works well with venison sausage instead of backstrap. No hindsight ip unit displayed. 4 Yukon Gold potatoes 1 venison backstrap…
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…
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