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Hunting
By Amber Kitchens It all started on Oct. 1 when a big Georgia brute showed up on our deer camera. I got in the stand around 5:00 that afternoon but saw only a few does and a young buck. Having two kids makes it hard to just go to the woods whenever I want to.…
One of the 2023 Georgia archery season’s best bow bucks was taken by 14-year-old Smisson Rigdon. Smisson’s Houston County 13-pointer has more than 160 inches of antler. We met up with Smisson for a photo shoot and talked with him on video about his incredible bow season. To see more photos and read Smisson’s hunt…
Either-sex deer hunting days are more liberal across most of Georgia as the statewide gun season is set to open this weekend on Saturday, Oct. 21. In all but 13 counties in the north Georgia mountains, it’s a doe day this weekend and for the rest of deer season. Doe days aren’t the only big…
After my daughter got her second buck last year, it really motivated my son to want to hunt more. He had several chances to go before his sister got her second deer but turned down the chances. His chances to get a deer that season came down to the last weekend of the season. He…
After five weeks of archery deer hunting, Georgia’s deer season makes a transition tomorrow morning, Oct. 14, as primitive -weapons hunting opens statewide. Also, kids 15 and younger can hunt with rifles as the Youth Week opens in conjunction with the primitive-weapons season. The general firearms deer season for all hunters opens next Saturday, Oct.…
When 11th grader Owen Osden left Richmond Hill High School on the afternoon of Sept. 21, his sights were set on getting to the deer stand as fast as he could. “I had to swing by and grab a bag of corn first, but I had been getting pictures of several good bucks for a…
By John Williams I am an avid outdoorsman and love documenting my hunts through filming and writing. I filmed this buck for three years before finally killing him on Oct. 2, 2022 during my closest encounter with him at 27 yards. He came in with a buck I missed the second day of the…
Just like with fishing, one of the best times to hit the woods is before a low-pressure system like a hurricane makes landfall in your state. Even if your property isn’t in the direct path of the storm, its outer bands can produce winds and rain that affect barometric pressure, and, increase deer movement. The…
Michael Fortner is a mixed martial arts fighter. He understands the importance of being patient and waiting for the perfect opening to get in his best shot. He applied that same thinking to his bowhunting recently, and the result was a bruiser. Michael’s big DeKalb County buck had 23 scoreable points and grossed 196 inches.…
A south Georgia group that goes by Hog Droppers recently captured nighttime drone video footage of a bobcat finishing off a Georgia deer fawn and then dragging it away. “This was a once-in-a-lifetime live experience to see in nature,” said Tate Anderson, a member of Hog Droppers. Hog Droppers consists of four hunters: Matt Jones,…
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