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“I don’t think I will ever go back to shooting a regular rifle again,” remarked Ronnie Blackburn, of Douglasville. Since receiving a Umarex Hammer .50 caliber PCP Air Rifle for Christmas a year ago, Ronnie has been hooked on the air gun. “It’s kind of like going from regular rifle hunting to bowhunting,” said Ronnie…
It was opening-day afternoon of blackpowder, and I was in venison collection mode. I had four packs of frozen ground left, and it was time to replenish the Gill home. About 45 minutes before dark, a doe high-stepped out of some pines and into a strip of natural grass and broomsedge. At first appearing, she…
Eatonton native Vincent Hancock has been in the pages of GON since he was a teen shotgun phenom more than two decades ago when GON sponsored and followed the emerging Lake Oconee Shotgun Team. Now 35 years old, Vincent just won an unprecedented fourth Olympic gold medal in Men’s Skeet at the 2024 Paris games.…
A report about a goose with what looked at first like four “legs” being spotted at Lake Oconee’s Wallace Dam certainly raised some eyebrows. When at least three Georgia Power employees saw the oddball goose, and finally got a decent photo, it was time to ask GON about it. After speaking with WRD, this goose…
Ten years have ticked by since the double murder of an elderly couple, Russell and Shirley Dermond, on Lake Oconee. At that time, local law-enforcement teams reached out to GON to spread the word among sportsmen and anglers in an effort to find any information that could help bring justice to the Putnam County case.…
I’ve driven by Rock Eagle 4-H Center and its 110-acre lake hundreds of times but never fished there. I’ve always wondered how the fishing was, so I did a little research and found out there was very little information out there and almost no recent stories about fishing the lake. This article is an effort…
Vincent Hancock, three times Olympic skeet men champion, returned to the top of the podium in style today as he and Austen Smith earned skeet mixed team gold for the United States, just as they did at the same venue last year. Hancock, 35, will seek a fourth individual Olympic title in Paris this summer…
With the Paris Olympics looming this summer and Team USA qualifying matches in Arizona next month, Eatonton native Vincent Hancock earned gold and silver medals during the recent ISSF World Cup shooting competitions in Rabat, Morocco. Vincent won gold in the Skeet Mixed Team event silver in Men’s Skeet. In the Men’s Skeet competition, Vincent…
By Cliff Odum We first got this buck on camera three years ago when he was a very nice 9-pointer. He had a clean rack with a non-matching G4 on his left side. I had harvested a 10-point opening weekend of the 2023 season and had committed to my brother and father that I would…
I once read that to kill a really good buck you first needed to find one. So, when I moved to middle Georgia near the massive Cedar Creek WMA in 1990, I realized that I had a chance to find one—well, at least a better chance than winning the lottery. Growing up hunting and fishing…
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