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A tropical storm brought high winds, rain and knocked the power out for many Georgians for days, and then that was followed by summertime-like high temperatures. Didn’t slow us down… apparently it’s about impossible to stop Georgia’s 2017 deer season from getting off to a great start. A great benchmark for how the season is…
Thomas Lamb, of Americus, killed a buck in Sumter County on Sept. 15 that could end up being a new county bow record. The symmetrical 10-pointer grossed 153 6/8 inches and netted 149, only 1/8 of an inch from the current No. 1 bow buck. In July, Thomas and his friend, Hilton, put out corn…
My partner and I have owned 460 acres in Crawford County on the Flint River since 1994. Our largest buck to date has been a 138-inch buck that had 20 inches in deductions for symmetry, so it netted 118 points. So, no real shooters in all that time, and I have always used the deer season…
The 2016 rut was just getting underway, but for Carl Higgenbottom, the season was already off to a rough start. Carl’s truck had broken down two days before, but, fortunately, his friend Tony Langley agreed to stop by early that Sunday morning and give him a ride to their hunting land in Haralson County. Carl…
Don Spillers, of Fort Valley, received a little luck last Thanksgiving morning when a 6 1/2-year-old giant Houston County buck showed up directly under his stand. However, the hard work and dedication that led up to the buck’s fall proves that Don’s hunt on Nov. 24 was anything but luck. The 11-pointer, appropriately named “Sky…
Tyler Meeks, 14, of Hawkinsville, won a $3,000 shopping spree after winning GON’s Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out on July 28 at GON’s Outdoor Blast. In addition, Tyler won a dream deer and hog hunting trip with Woods-N-Water outfitters in Wrightsville. Tyler and his dad will be staying at a remote lodge, will be well fed,…
To say the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out will test the nerves of contestants and the audience is a bit of an understatement. Just ask the wife of one Shoot-Out contestant, who said every time her husband stepped up on the stage for a shot she was so nauseous she thought she was literally going to get sick.…
GON’s Youth Big-Buck Contest is back, and that means a Browning Trail Camera will be given away every week of deer season, and one youngster will win a grand prize $3,000 shopping spree at Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna. Plus, that grand-prize winner will get to spend a weekend at Woods-N-Water outfitters next hunting season. The…
Ask some of Georgia’s most successful big-buck chasers, and they will tell you the best time to kill a trophy buck is opening weekend of archery season. There’s long been a conception that the best time to kill a mature buck is during the rut, and that is indeed an excellent time because bucks abandon…
Last year in early November, Crisp County hunter Jeff Davis was understandably excited to have just taken a great wide-antlered 9-pointer. Despite having one remaining buck tag, thoughts of encountering another trophy-class deer during the same season really never entered Jeff’s mind. However, there’s an old adage often quoted regarding hunting and fishing activities… “Never…
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