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Georgia Recognizes Top Game Wardens

Game Warden First Class Brock Hoyt, who is assigned to Fulton County, was named the 2022 Game Warden of the Year by the DNR Law Enforcement Division (LED). Cpl. Dean Gibson from Talbot County received the James R. Darnell Award as the runner-up to Game Warden of the Year. “These officers have proven themselves as…

Harris County 14-Pointer Wasn’t Hunter’s Opening-Day Target Buck

Clay Johnson is thankful that his deer hunting buddies are there when he needs them, but he sure was glad that they were a little slow in answering his text last Saturday. Clay, of Dallas, was hunting a Harris County farm that belongs to friends on Saturday when he suspected that the buck he was…

Students Poach Deer And Dump It At High School

The Conservation LE Corner is designed to highlight the efforts of Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division (LED) officers who, among their many duties, protect Georgia’s wildlife, sportsmen and natural resources from game-law violators. The following account is provided from DNR LED.  Harris County: On Jan. 10, 2021, Game Warden Gregory Castelli received a complaint that…

Georgia Teen Angler Makes Bassmaster High School All-America Team

The unincorporated community of Ellerslie has a population of just 1,053 people. Like all small communities, what happens at the local high school is a really big deal. That is especially true of high school sports. Now, the community is buzzing about officially having a sports celebrity in its midst. Harris County junior fisherman Storm…

199-Inch Redemption Buck

Like many who take a once-in-a-lifetime buck, Pine Mountain’s Cory Croft played a years-long chess game with a monstrous buck that freely roamed on and off his property. On Nov. 12, Cory finally got to proclaim checkmate. Cory used a rifle to take an 18-point Harris County buck that rough-scored 199 inches. He was ecstatic…

Big 10-Point Three Weeks After Life-Saving Transplant

Most sportsmen eagerly anticipate opening day of a new hunting season. One Georgia man didn’t even know if he would see opening day this year but made the most of it when it did arrive by taking a huge buck. Zak Avery, a 39-year-old financial advisor from Pine Mountain, discovered he had a failing liver…

Showtime! Aaron Harrison’s 173-Inch Harris County Bow-Buck

When I first called Aaron Harrison, excited to get a clear grasp on his experience with the massive Harris County buck he named “Showtime,” he picked up on the fourth or fifth ring in a whisper. The man was up in the deer stand, back at it again! We did our introductions, and I asked…

Truck-Buck 2019-20: Week 6 Winner, Cade Croft

Week 6: Cade Croft, 147 3/8 typical County: Harris Date: Oct. 21 The gun season scoring periods began with Week 6 of the contest, and from then on each week the highest-scoring buck earns the hunter a Browning deer rifle. On the Monday following opening weekend of gun season, 14-year-old Cade Croft was hunting over…

Kids In Deer Camp, Great Buck For Jeremy

By Donnie Price On Nov. 3, 2016, my son Jeremy got off the school bus with a larger-than-normal smile on his face. He and his little brother Jesse were headed to deer camp on the Talbot/Harris county line for a weekend hunt with me and their PaPaw. My goal for the weekend was to get…

Truck-Buck Week 6 Results 2015-2016

Week 6 North (Oct. 17-23) 1. Tony House Butts 136 3/8 2. Travis Legg Oglethorpe 133 0/8 3. Jeff Hudgins Troup 125 6/8 4. Nathan Fennell Murray 124 7/8 5. James Mitchell Jasper 116 6/8 6. Zach Stubbs Crawford 115 0/8 7. J.D. Rohm Morgan *127 6/8 8. Jesse Parker (y) Coweta 100 0/8 9.…

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