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The term “monster buck” is generally used to describe a deer with a large set of antlers on his head. But in the case of this Morgan County monster, it’s more than the size of the antlers that make it monstrous. He’s got a set of antlers that are not only large, they are downright…
“Only 23 days until bow season. I am literally counting down the days. Maybe this year I will get my first Pope and Young buck.” The year was 2000. This was the beginning of my first journal entry for my tenth-grade English assignment. My mind was on deer hunting as I daydreamed of shooting a…
Brian Murphy was checking his Morgan County deer stands at about 2 p.m. on Aug. 13 when he encountered a snake. Now, encountering a snake in the deer woods is not unusual, but this no-shoulders was tucked in his lock-on stand seat. The stand was 20 feet up a tree. And the snake was a…
Back in my old way of life, putting others first when deer hunting on the same piece of land didn’t usually happen. Today, many years later, when I hear a story about a deer hunter taking the last available stand on an afternoon, and then dropping a buck that scores in the 160s, it confirms…
The Morgan County High School bass fishing team of Cole Holloway and Ryan Thomas recently placed second in the TBF Student Angler Federation High School Fishing World Finals on the Mississippi River in La Crosse, Wisconsin. As a result, the team was offered a combined $266,000 in scholarship funds from three different colleges. “It feels…
No burglars were breaking into GON member Bruce Canada’s Taylorsville home on Father’s Day. Not with a 4-foot timber rattlesnake stretched out across the porch! The snake was way too close to the house for comfort, and a second photo also sent by Bruce showed that the rattler understandably did not survive its visit to…
Although the information is anecdotal, some turkey hunters have hope for improved turkey populations during future spring seasons. “It is too early to know for sure, but anecdotally poult production seems to be better in several parts of the state,” said Kevin Lowrey, WRD’s wild turkey project manager. “The Lower Coastal Plain and Ridge and…
A number of landowners along the Apalachee River in Morgan and Oconee counties are concerned over news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has plans to install a water pumping station along the river in order to move water into Hard Labor Creek Reservoir. The location of the pumping station would be just north…
After he killed an 11-point buck he’d been watching for about two months, 16-year-old Garrett McCarty, of Rutledge, would say that all good things are worth the wait. This buck would ultimately gross 171 5/8 inches, and once it is officially measured, Garrett could have the No. 5 buck of all-time in Morgan County. It…
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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