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Hunting
One moment I was among a large group of camo-clad hunters I’d never seen before. A few minutes later, it was like I had known these special people all my life. That was the general atmosphere on Sunday, Oct. 27, at the annual Foundation for Outdoor Kids Youth Hunt sponsored by the Georgia Chapter of…
The Georgia Chapter of Safari Club International (SCI) was proud to host wounded veterans for a deer hunt on Saturday, Dec. 12 in Cedartown. For most of the veterans, this was their first deer hunt. After a warm welcome and introductions, veterans were treated to lunch and then headed for the shooting range where they…
By Daniel Krause It all started on Sept. 17, 2019. One Friday evening while checking my trail-camera pictures on an 88-acre piece of private land in Polk County, I was excited to see a monster buck standing with light beaming from his rack like a halo on an angel. I was in shock. In all…
Dave McElwee, of Cedartown, captured a video of two deer standing on their back legs and duking it out in a boxing match for nearly 2 1/2 minutes straight. The video was captured in Polk County on Sept. 22. “I had just gotten home from playing golf and was sitting in my vehicle in the…
Saturday, June 11 was the annual Polk County Kids Fishing Event (KFE). This annual KFE takes place off Highway 113 in northeast Polk County on property owned by CW Matthews Contracting Co. The pond is large enough to hold quite a crowd of excited young anglers. DNR Law Enforcement Cpl. Chad Cox, who is the…
He’ll be the first to tell you, he’d do lots different if he could only replay the events of Sept. 29, 2012, starting with leaving a rattlesnake well enough alone. Brian Hearn was at his Polk County property planting food plots when an encounter with a 4-foot timber rattlesnake, also known as a canebrake, just…
“If you want to take a nice buck, you have to go south. You just can’t grow a deer in north Georgia like you can in the southern parts.” I’m sure you have all heard this one, and I must say, I have been guilty of using this line on more than one occasion. Polk…
On Oct. 13, 2007, three generations of Davis hunters, grandfather Roy, his son Mike, and Mike’s son Dakota, each shot a buck with a muzzleloader on a hunting club in Polk County. For Roy, it was his first muzzleloader buck, and Dakota’s 4-pointer was the first deer he’d ever killed. “Mike and Dakota were hunting…
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