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Fishing
Christy Nash, of Gay, is one of those blessed hunters able to hunt a piece of property that hasn’t been hunted in more than two decades. It’s a 275-acre piece of Lamar County dirt that’s been in her daddy’s family for more than 100 years. Her daddy is 88 years old, and he now gets…
Matt Rivers, of Newnan, killed a gnarly looking 16-point buck with his bow in Lamar County on Oct. 3. “We don’t have any idea how to score him,” said Matt. “I’ve had people tell me 180, 190, 200.” Matt is talking about gross inches of antler, but when it comes to a net score, there’s…
Gaines Abernathy admits that in 1971 at the age of 15 he didn’t know much about deer hunting. And little did he know he would kill a deer that 50 years later would be in the top-15 all-time for bucks taken in Lamar County. “My good friend and I had begun deer hunting the year…
By Kevin Worley This happened to me on Nov. 1 after more than 20 years of bowhunting. Now I say 20 years, which is true. I bought my bow back in ’98 or ’99, I believe, and I still hunt with it today. However, I didn’t exactly bowhunt a great deal because I never enjoyed hunting…
Some might say Christmas came early for Lee Summers, of Monroe. He took down a rare buck still in velvet on Nov. 15. While hunting that Sunday on private land in Lamar County, Lee and his son spotted three does. Closely following was the unusual buck. “At first it looked like something was hanging from his…
On October 23, Jeff Sutton, 42, of Barnesville went hunting on a lease in Lamar County near Milan. At about 4:15 on a windy after- noon, Jeff left his truck and walked 15 minutes to a small, overgrown swampy area about 20 yards wide that was the low spot between three soybean fields. In that…
Middle Georgia College student Bryan McBride couldn’t wait to get home for Christmas Break. He was thinking about bass fishing at a lake in nearby Lamar County, where he had caught two bass weighing over 11 pounds in September, 1997. Bryan was ready to tangle with a big one again. On Thursday, December 10, 1998,…
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