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In late summer and early fall, Joe Dent, and his hunting companions began getting trail-camera photos of an impressive wide-antlered buck on their Terrell County hunting lease. Only problem was that all of the images were recorded at various times during the night. Not surprisingly, bowhunters never got a glimpse of the big deer, nor…
Patience definitely paid off for Ron Purvis, of Adel, on Nov. 29. Ron was hunting family land when he took down a Cook County 12-point monster that green-scored 182 3/8 inches. After hunting this buck for four years, Ron had only seen the buck a few times on his trail-camera pictures, but he’d never laid…
Stewed Venison Shanks When cleaning deer, I have always automatically cut off the legs and discarded them. Never again! 2 lower legs of a deer, skinned 1/4 cup olive oil 2 tablespoons butter 1 medium onion, diced 4 cloves minced garlic 3 medium carrots, diced 2 stalks celery, diced 1 tablespoon tomato paste 2 8-oz.…
By Vinny Himes I hadn’t picked up a bow in 12 years due to a compound fracture of my left shoulder blade and a fractured and severely dislocated right shoulder. My buddy Jordan McGee came by the house in July for a cookout and had his bow in the truck. We got to messing around, and I asked…
You know it’s a bad drought when water is your best deer-hunting “food source.” GON reader Jimmy Arnold sent some great trail-cam pictures of a water source he created with a plastic pool. “After reading the article on tips for hunting small tracts (November issue of GON), I would like to share with you…
The calls just keep coming in at the GON office this deer season—another giant buck from another Georgia county. We’ve seen top-end bucks killed from one end of the state to the other. Official scores can’t been done for 60 days after a buck is killed, so we haven’t even begun to compile all of…
On Thanksgiving Day afternoon, Nov. 24, Nate Martin went hunting in Whitfield County in the Chattahoochee National Forest. He was hoping to get his first buck, but little did he know that he would return home that afternoon dragging two bucks—or at least the remains of two bucks. “After we all ate, I went to…
A 158 5/8-inch gross-scoring buck was taken from Fort Benning on Nov. 11, Veterans Day, by Russell Wyatt, an infantryman on the 182,000-acre military installation near the Georgia-Alabama border adjacent to Columbus. Russell has only been hunting a handful of times, but for a man who’s only shot a few deer, he’s now set the bar pretty high…
On Friday, Nov. 18, Judd Schramm, of Columbus, killed a giant 17-point buck while hunting in Webster County that could top 190 total inches of antler. “I had pictures of him many times and had a bunch of him on my trail camera on Monday (Nov. 14). I had already taken off work for the end of…
Joseph Wesley Hoffman, 34, of Morgan County, passed away Nov. 11 after being shot when another hunter’s gun accidentally discharged. The incident occurred when Hoffman and the other hunter were retrieving their guns from the backseat of a four-door pick-up truck at opposite ends of the truck after arriving at private property in Jasper County. The incident…
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