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If you read last month’s issue of GON and acted on all the good information in the hog stories, you should already have a tender, young little piggie. Now you need a good recipe for those backstraps. Look no further. Sweet Boar Loin: Hog Roast with brown sugar glaze 4-5 lbs. feral hog loin…
It’s late winter, and deer season is over. Turkey season is nearly three months away. What now? Want to stay in the woods longer? Read on and find out how these two south Georgia swampers break in the 2011 hunting season on public land. January and February they’ll be killing hogs on lonely post-deer-season WMAs.…
At first glance, Kristen Sharpe, 13, of Uvalda, thought she was looking at a cow when she peeked out the window into the 10-acre field behind her house. The home-schooler was at home watching “Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman” on the television on Dec. 3 when her Beagle-Rottweiler mix Herby started barking. Kristen said Herby had…
Saturday, Nov. 6 started out as a typical deer hunt and ended with the biggest kill of my life. I set out with hunting partner Josh Cannon, and we headed for our private tract of land in south Bibb County. We were going deer hunting and knew it would be a good morning with the…
It truly was a dream trip for Grayson York, of Martin. The 10-year-old was the 2009 SEEDS Big-Buck Contest winner, and in late October he cashed in on his grand prize, a dream deer hunt with Woods-N-Water in Johnson County. Blaine Burley, of Wrightsville, has been president of Woods-N-Water for 15 years. Blaine has a…
Thirty-three dead hogs in less than an hour of effort on the evening of Dec. 8, 2009 resulted in 3,789 pounds of bacon, sausage and ribs. Talk about filling the freezer fast! A group of Sumter County hunters — William Webb, Mark Israel, Aaron Cosby, Alan Johnson and Ricky Crook — were fed up with…
In a full sprint, I ran through almost total darkness trying desperately to keep up with the man in front of me. A midnight-black pit bull with a grizzly bear’s build was almost pulling him through the woods. Even the choke collar around its neck wasn’t slowing it down. At times I could barely see…
Last fall, a rainstorm came that kept the pigs pinned to the same sorghum plot Jeff McCrackin had seen them in the day before. When he and his 8-year-old stepson Lane returned at daybreak, the field was still full of pork. They scanned the black pack of feeding squealers for a few minutes, passing over…
It took a team effort for a group of Rocky Mount hunters to kill this 820-lb. Meriwether County hog on May 17. The hunters were (top row, from left) Gene Caldwell, Claude Caldwell, Ed Kneuer, Don Windom, Jody Marchman and (bottom row, from left) Trevor Murphy, Fred Murphy, James Murphy and Keith White. About 10…
It was his last cartridge and his last hope. The 192-lb. wild boar had already gored Dr. Joseph “Larry” Jackson Sr. twice and had him right where it wanted him. It had all happened in a whirlwind… the quick tremble of leaves in the thicket, the scrape of tusks and teeth against his rifle. Dr.…
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